As the BJP's key ally in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), JD (U) demanded a special status category for Bihar, Minister of State for Finance Pankaj Chaudhary, in a written reply, said that special status cannot granted to Bihar as per the Inter-Ministerial Group (IMG) report 2012.
"It is so unfortunate that the BJP-led NDA government is not taking proper action or even listening to the voices of children. Today, the Opposition is raising its voice for the concern of children's life in the future," Maran said while speaking to ANI in the Parliament complex on Monday.
Shivsena UBT leader Anand Dubey on Sunday criticized Union Home Minister Amit Shah for "Aurangzeb fan club" remarks on party chief and said that Uddhav Thackeray becomes Aurangzeb if he stands against the BJP but becomes a magician if Thackeray support the BJP-led Centre.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday criticized the BJP-led NDA government for recent train accidents, saying that the government should address the issue or face public consequences.
At the Trinamool Congress's (TMC) Dharamtala rally in Kolkata, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav and TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee delivered strong criticisms of the BJP government, accusing it of using underhanded tactics to stay in power and predicting its imminent downfall
"In some seats, we did face setbacks. If people have received the benefits of multiple initiatives, that is only during the regime of the BJP. The tribal ministry also came under the regime of the BJP. So based on our work in the state, we will expand BJP further there," said Joshi.
Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Saturday condemned Uttar Pradesh government's directive for food shops to display their owners' names saying that its an attempt by the BJP to create distance between people.
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) on Saturday strongly condemned the directive issued by the BJP state governments in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand to all eateries to display their owners' names along the entire stretch of the Kanwar Yatra route .
Boosting the morale of the party workers ahead of the state assembly polls, Amit Shah said that whether it is the Modi government, Raghubar Das government or Arjun Manda government, the BJP government has not done anything due to which BJP workers have to bow their heads.
After UPSC Chairman Manoj Soni's resignation amidst the controversy regarding trainee IAS Pooja Khedkar, Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge on Saturday accused the BJP-RSS of systematically indulging in an "institutional takeover" of India's constitutional bodies and said that multiple scanda