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"Ram ka naam badnam na karo": Shashi Tharoor opposes renaming MGNREGA by r
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Referencing an iconic Kshore Kumar song from the 1970's titled 'Ram ka Naam Badnam Na Karo', Tharoor opposed the inclusion of multiple languages in the bill (Hindi and English), while the Constitution calls for only one language to be used.
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Ajit Pawar slams anti-Modi slogans, calls for decorum in political discour
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Pawar's reaction comes in the wake of sharp political controversy triggered by slogans raised at a Congress rally held at Delhi's Ramlila Maidan against alleged "vote chori" (vote theft). During the rally, Congress leader Manju Lata Meena reportedly said, "Modi teri kabar khudegi, aaj nah
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"Rahul Gandhi was the first to flee...": BJP MP Saumik Bhattacharya takes
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Bhartiya Janata Party MP Saumik Bhattacharya on Monday took a swipe at LoP and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, reacting to the recent sloganeering against Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Congress mega rally, and said that he was the first to run when Home Minister Amit Shah was spea
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"Sonia Gandhi should apologise": Nadda slams Congress over "Kabar Khudegi"
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Addressing the Upper House, Nadda said the slogans reflected the Congress party's "thinking and mentality" and termed such remarks against a sitting Prime Minister as highly condemnable, holding Sonia Gandhi accountable as the party's senior-most leader.
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"Parliament has been hurt both by statement of Rahul Gandhi, Renuka Chowdh
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra on Tuesday said the dignity of Parliament was hurt by statements of Rahul Gandhi and MP Renuka Chowdhury after Chowdhury brought a dog to Parliament and likened MPs to "biting" dogs.
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"Attack on privacy of common people": KC Venugopal slams Centre over Sanch
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
The Department of Telecommunications' (DoT) move to mandate the pre-installation of the Sanchar Saathi application on all mobile handsets manufactured or imported in India has sparked political controversy. Congress MP KC Venugopal on Tuesday criticised the government's directive, calling
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"Did not skip it; was on a plane": Congress MP Tharoor on missing party's
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor on Monday clarified that he did not intentionally skip the Congress strategic group meeting held a day earlier, stating that he was on a flight returning from Kerala when the meeting took place.
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His statements not of party: TMC leader Nirmla Ghosh slams party MLA Humay
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
"He (Humayun Kabir) is not in contact with the party. His speeches have nothing to do with the party. They are his own statements, but the party doesn't agree with them. He has gone beyond the limits," Nirmal Ghosh told ANI on Tuesday.
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"These kinds of bullying don't work in Maharashtra": Aaditya Thackeray sla
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Shiv Sena (UBT) MLA Aaditya Thackeray on Sunday hit out at Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar over his controversial comments made during a campaign event in Malegaon, saying that such political "bullying" does not work in the state.
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“Vote is in your hands, I have funds…”: Ajit Pawar tells voters in Pune di
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar has seemingly sparked a political controversy with his remarks in Malegaon town in Baramati in Pune district during campaign for local body elections that if voters "cross mark" his party's candidates, he will also "cross mark" a
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TMC targets Muslim votes as ground slips away: BJP leaders slam Humayun Ka
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Saturday sharply criticised Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Humayun Kabir over his controversial remarks referring to laying the foundation stone of a Babri Masjid, alleging that the TMC is resorting to communal rhetoric to consolidate Muslim votes as
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"Difficult to get out of 'chakravyu' of narrative...not giving my own exam
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
In apparently his first appearance at a public function since resigning as country's Vice President in July this year, Jagdeep Dhankhar on Friday talked of the risk of falling into narratives, saying it is difficult to get out of this "chakravyuh" if anyone gets into it, while also statin
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