Kerala finance minister K N Balagopal on Wednesday slammed the central government for hiking the price of Liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and said, it will very seriously affect the day-to-day expenditure of poor families.
Responding to the recent BBC docuseries on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid on Tuesday said that restricting the documentary from being shown to the public reflects cowardness.
Lashing out at Siddaramaiah for his "poll agent" remark against BJP national president JP Nadda and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday sought to know whether former Congress president Rahul Gandhi is working as the party agent.
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Gautam Gambhir on Tuesday described the Delhi excise policy scam as an "open-and-shut case" and alleged that the policy was made to exploit money to "fight elections with Khalistani's help".
Aam Aadmi Party staged nationwide protests against the arrest of party leader and Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia by CBI in connection with the liquor policy scam case.
"I am told that most CBI officers were against Manish's arrest. All of them have huge respect for him and there is no evidence against him. But the political pressure to arrest him was so high that they had to obey their political masters," Kejriwal tweeted.
Bharatiya Janata Party has criticised Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren over his "bury money in the ground" remark, and described the statement as "unconstitutional and irresponsible" alleging that he is promoting black money.
Bharatiya Janata Party national spokesperson Sambit Patra on Sunday hit back at the Aam Aadmi Party for raising objectionable slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi while showing support to Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia.
Shiromani Akali Dal President and former Deputy CM of Punjab Sukhbir Singh Badal slammed the full-page advertisements in all papers by chief minister Bhagwant Mann in different states about investments being done in the state.
In another incident of target killing, a 40-year-old man was shot dead by terrorists in Pulwama district of South Kashmir. The deceased has been identified as Sanjay Sharma, who worked as a security guard.
Shortly before arriving at the CBI office on Sunday for questioning in connection with the alleged Delhi excise policy scam, Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia said false cases are being lodged against leaders of the ruling party as Prime Minister Narendra Modi was "afraid" of Chief Min
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday lashed out at Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and said that he "failed to respect" his father and veteran leader Mulayam Singh Yadav.