Opposition’s Test
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.
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.
After meeting Election Commission officials, Meenakshi Natarajan said the Congress would continue its challenge through constitutional channels while seeking reversal of her rejected Rajya Sabha nomination.
With Rajya Sabha polling days away, the Congress has mounted a legal and political challenge against the rejection of Meenakshi Natarajan's nomination papers in Madhya Pradesh.
The issue had triggered protests with local residents and several Hindu organisations demanding reservation for Hindu candidates as the institute was being run with the donations at the Vaishnodevi Shrine.
In the early hours of 3 January, the United States crossed a moral, legal, and historical threshold that should alarm the world.
Despite Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena emerging as the single largest party, the BJP managed to win the council president's post with the help of the Congress and Ajit Pawar's NCP.
Accusing the Opposition of indulging in politics over nomenclature, Sao said the Congress had lost its ideological moorings and was now confined to the interests of a single family.
His remarks suggesting a Venezuela-like operation in India prompted a scathing response from the BJP.
