It’s no longer BJP versus Congress, we will see BJP versus regional parties: Swaminathan Aiyar“The future of the Congress is quite grim. Some people are asking whether Congress will split? That is silly. The party is a party of the G...
10 Mar, 2022, 05.03 PM IST
BJP will secure over 300 seats in UP; it is 80 vs 20 election: Yogi AdityanathExplaining what he means by the 80 versus 20, he said, "80 per cent are those people who are happy with the state government's agenda of se...
14 Feb, 2022, 07.12 PM IST
There's respect for Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan, which's why nobody is upset with BJP: Swatantra Dev Singh"Our target is to cross 300 seats. We have leadership. At the Centre, we have Modi ji who is popular, and in the state, we have Yogi ji." s...
12 Jan, 2022, 12.16 AM IST
Talks on with like-minded parties to fight BJP in Goa: Sharad Pawar"NCP leader Praful Patel, Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut are talking with local Congress leaders there," Pawar told reporters. There is a common t...
11 Jan, 2022, 05.49 PM IST
Congress became property of one family after Independence: UP Assembly SpeakerThe Congress used to be a democratic organisation till the country gained Independence but after that it became "property" of one family, w...
26 Dec, 2021, 04.26 PM IST
SP, BSP, Congress have no mass base in UP: NaqviThe SP, BSP and the Congress are competing for power in Uttar Pradesh without any base among the masses, Union minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi...
17 Sep, 2021, 09.17 PM IST
Onus of Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani's failure on PM Modi: CongressRandeep Surjewala said on Twitter, "Two things stand out today - Deep seated infighting in all BJP ruled states, be it Gujarat, Rajasthan, ...
11 Sep, 2021, 09.54 PM IST
Uttar Pradesh: Outsider entry creates ripples in BJPThe four seats which will fall vacant in the upper house are all represented by SP legislators -- Sri Ram Singh Yadav, Lilawati Kushwaha, R...
11 Jun, 2021, 06.09 PM IST
In Uttar Pradesh, it is Yogi Adityanath’s Hindutva vs caste math of allianceBJP has managed to revive its fortunes by mixing caste arithmetic with hardline Hindutva.
24 Mar, 2019, 11.00 AM IST
Lok Sabha polls will be Modi vs the rest: BJP chief Amit ShahShah also said the BJP has rid Uttar Pradesh of goons and Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has tackled the land mafia problem in the state.
06 Feb, 2019, 03.54 PM IST
Shiv Sena targets Modi government over West Bengal govt-CBI face-offThe Sena, in an editorial in party mouthpiece 'Saamana', said what was happening in Kolkata was a "threat to democracy".
05 Feb, 2019, 11.39 AM IST
In face of united opposition, BJP needs out-of-box idea to win 2019 pollsThe margin of losses shows that the Opposition has managed to transfer its votes to the joint candidate. In Kairana too, this played a key ...
01 Jun, 2018, 08.27 AM IST
Low voter turnout led to by poll loss: Amit ShahShah dismissed Congress attempts to get the opposition parties together, saying it has lost polls in 11 states and some of these parties ar...
17 Mar, 2018, 10.25 PM IST
View: If economy is BJP's Plan A for 2019, Ram is Plan BFor the 2019 general elections, the Mughal monument is emerging as a set-piece for the political chessboard, a powerful visual metaphor of ...
24 Oct, 2017, 07.56 PM IST
Yogi Adityanath as UP CM: Framing politics as secularism vs Hindutva alone won't cut it politicallyThe collapse of UP’s caste praxis and the Mandal vote has led to a hard calculation that the party has very little to lose from such a gamb...
27 Mar, 2017, 12.28 PM IST
With Yogi Adityanath, BJP seems to be seeking majority consolidation ahead of Lok Sabha pollsThe controversial five-term MP from Gorakhpur is known for his polarising rhetoric and belongs to the extreme right, or the “fringe” that m...
19 Mar, 2017, 12.52 PM IST
BJP in search of young face from the upper caste in Uttar Pradesh to counter CM Akhilesh YadavAmit Shah has clarified that the party has not yet taken a call on whether it will declare a CM candidate in UP or not but has declared SP ...
30 May, 2016, 06.06 AM IST