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.
On Constitution Day, senior Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun Kharge reaffirmed their commitment to protecting the Indian Constitution and its core values of justice, liberty, equality, fraternity, secularism, and socialism.
"On the martyrdom day of the ninth Guru of Sikhism, 'Hind Ki Chadar' Sri Guru Tegh Bahadur Ji, I pay my humble respects to him. His ideals, values, sacrifice, and martyrdom will forever remain a source of inspiration for humanity," Gandhi said.
The manifesto was released in Kochi on Monday by leader of the Opposition in the Kerala Assembly, VD Satheesan, in the presence of KPCC president Sunny Joseph, AICC general secretary Deepa Dasmunshi, UDF convenor Adoor Prakash, IUML national general secretary P K Kunhalikutty, and other leaders
Those expelled include former Congress Seva Dal Vice-President Aditya Paswan, former State Congress Vice-President Shakeelur Rahman, former Kisan Congress President Raj Kumar Sharma, former State Youth Congress President Raj Kumar Rajan, former EBC Cell President Kundan Gupta, Banka District President Kanchana Kumari, and Ravi Golden from Nalanda district.
Addressing media persons, BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi stated “pollution of Marx and Mao” is denser in the brains of the agitators and that the “real face” of protestors had been revealed.
