Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday launched a sharp attack on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Election Commission of India (ECI), alleging that the ruling party was manipulating the electoral process.
The next Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh are more than two years away. Yet political activity in the state is already beginning to take on an unmistakably electoral character.
The latest gathering of opposition parties in New Delhi offered a reminder that the central challenge before India's non-BJP political forces is no longer one of arithmetic. It is one of credibility.
A political war of words erupted on Wednesday as the Congress sought to challenge the narrative surrounding Prime Minister Narendra Modi becoming India's longest-serving Prime Minister in consecutive terms.
"The Election Commission has heard our case today, and now we are waiting. We are in our fight," Natarajan told reporters in Delhi.
The ongoing Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the electoral rolls has triggered a fresh round of political exchanges in Chhattisgarh, with the Congress and the BJP taking contrasting positions over the verification exercise being carried out under the guidelines of the Election Commission of India.
Citing a major intelligence failure and a worrying delay in official response, the Congress demanded that Home Minister Amit Shah take responsibility for the security lapse.
It was the modest, but smooth beginning of the polling at 268 polling centers in this assembly constituency of the South-eastern Rajasthan at 07:00am, however, it gained momentum later setting a brisk pace in the voting.
Painting the EC and Modi government in black, the protests were also a show of strength and solidarity among the allies of the DMK-led Secular Progressive Front, comprising the Congress, VCK, Left Parties, MDMK, and Muslim parties, and others.
Congress leader Jairam Ramesh Tuesday criticised the government's reliance on the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) to tackle Delhi's pollution crisis, saying it's a reactive approach focusing on crisis management rather than avoidance.
