The BJP on Tuesday rejected Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s claim that the Gujarat poll result was a “massive jolt” to the party, saying it was actually the Congress which was on the verge “extinction” and should introspect. Addressing a press conference here, Union Human Resource Development Minister Prakash Javadekar said: “Yesterday (Monday) the BJP won …
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December 19, 2017Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday slammed the Congress party’s Gujarat poll manifesto as one of “fiscal impossibility” and its hope of winning as a “political improbability”. “Having no model of development, the Congress Party manifesto is one of fiscal impossibility,” Jaitley said. Jaitley in a Facebook post said the total revenue earned by Gujarat …
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December 9, 2017Congress leader P Chidambaram today criticised the Election Commission saying that by not announcing the Gujarat poll schedule, it has “authorised” Prime Minister Narendra Modi to declare the dates at his last rally, after all “freebies” for the state were doled out. The former finance and home minister also claimed the Election Commission will be …
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October 20, 2017The CPI-M on Friday called the Election Commission’s reasoning behind declaring the poll schedule in Himachal Pradesh but not Gujarat as “strange”. “It is strange that the Election Commission has announced the date of election for Himachal Pradesh Assembly while withholding the announcement of date for Gujarat Assembly elections,” the Communist Party of India-Marxist said. …
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October 13, 2017