Sushil Modi claims Lalu asked for Jaitley’s help to ‘manage’ CBI

Senior BJP leader and Bihar deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi claimed that RJD chief Lalu Prasad had sought help from Arun Jaitley in 2017 to manage the CBI in his favour in the fodder-scam case and assured that he would topple the Nitish Kumar government in return. Read More
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Modi says ‘Statue of Unity was not built to spite Nehru’

Prime Minister Narendra Mod said the imposing statue of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel’s in Gujarat has not been built to “belittle” former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. He said, “Patel’s stature is so tall that you don’t have to try too hard to make others look small.” Read More
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Rahul: ‘PM is missing the link between national and livelihood security’

Congress president Rahul Gandhi, in an interview with Hindu, said Prime Minister Narendra Modi is missing out a link between “national and livelihood security and the aspirations of youngsters and farmers”. Read More
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Mallaya lashes out at Modi again, says ‘who does one believe?’

Vijay Mallya said: “None other than the prime minister of India specifically says in an interview that his government has recovered more money than I allegedly owe PSU banks and the same banks claim otherwise in English courts. Who does one believe? One or the other is lying.” Read More
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Robert Vadra says ‘Priyanka will pose strong challenge to Modi’

Amid speculations that Priyanka Gandhi Vadra may stand against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi, her husband, Robert Vadra, said she is a hardworking person and would be a good candidate against Modi. Read More
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Modi says Rahul maligning my backward community

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, on Wednesday, assailed the Congress president, Rahul Gandhi, over his “why are all Modis thieves?” remark. Modi said by making this jibe, Rahul Gandhi had maligned the backward community he belongs to. Read More
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Uma Bharati says ‘country will judge Priyanka as a thief’s wife’

Senior Bharatiya Janata Party leader Uma Bharati said the country will “judge” Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as the wife of a “thief”. Read More
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Gehlot: BJP made Kovind president ‘keeping caste maths right’

Rajasthan chief minister Ashok Gehlot said the BJP nominated Ram Nath Kovind for the presidency due to caste considerations. Read More
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Sitharaman says ‘Imran Khan’s remark could be Congress’s ploy’

A week after Pakistan PM Imran Khan’s statement over having a better chance of the Kashmir issue being resolved if the BJP retains power, defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman alleged that such remarks could be a ploy by the Congress to oust the PM Narendra Modi-led government. Read More
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Stalin calls cancellation of Vellore poll ‘murder of democracy’

After President Ram Nath Kovind cancelled the Lok Sabha election in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore constituency based on an Election Commission recommendation on the use of money power to influence voters, DMK president MK Stalin called it “murder of democracy”. Read More
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Naqvi calls Azam Khan ‘Mogambo’, booked for violating MCC

Union minister and BJP candidate Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi was charged for violating the model code of conduct after he referred to senior Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan as “Mogambo” at an election rally in Rampur. Read More
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Gujarat BJP MLA threatens voters, says ‘Modi is watching via CCTVs’

BJP MLA from Fatepur, Ramesh Katara, in at a public rally in Gujarat’s Dahod Lok Sabha constituency, was caught in a video threatening voters that Narendra Modi would come to know about the number of votes for BJP as he had installed CCTV cameras across all polling stations. Read More
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Scindia: Modi should focus on jobs, farmers instead of Pakistan

Jyotiraditya Scindia, Congress’s general secretary in charge of western Uttar Pradesh, said instead of involving Pakistan’s name in poll campaign the BJP should focus on job and agrarian crisis that have been affecting majority of Indians. Read More
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Varun Gandhi says ‘leaving BJP will be my last day in politics’

Varun Gandhi, Bhartiya Janata Party MP from Sultanpur constituency said the day he will leave BJP, it will be his “last day in politics”. He said this during an interview with Times of India. Read More
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Patnaik: ‘BJD will support any govt who fulfils Odisha’s demands’

Odisha chief minister and Biju Janata Dal founder Naveen Patnaik, while seeking a fifth consecutive term in office and maintaining equidistance from the UPA and the NDA, said the aim is to make his state as one of the leading states. Read More
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Deve Gowda says no party will get majority, opposition must unite

Janata Dal (Secular) patriarch and former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda said neither of the two groups – UPA and NDA – will get a clear majority … there will be regrouping after the polls. Read More
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Sushma to Mulayam on Azam’s remark: ‘Draupadi being disrobed’

Sushma Swaraj also urged Mulayam Singh Yadav “not to stay silent like Bhishma” over Azam Khan’s purportedly derogatory remarks against Jaya Prada. She tagged Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav and Jaya Bhaduri Bachchan in her post too. Read More
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Maneka says she’ll grade villages ‘A, B, C, D’ based on votes for BJP

The BJP candidate from Sultanpur, Maneka Gandhi, has made yet another controversial statement during her election campaign. She said she plans to grade villages for developmental work according to the number of votes her party, the BJP, gets from those villages. Read More
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Mehbooba: BJP creating fear psychosis under guise of security

Peoples Democratic Party president and former J&K chief minister Mehbooba Mufti accused the BJP of creating a fear psychosis under the guise of national security to prepare for another Balakot-like strike in desperation to win Lok Sabha election. Read More
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Modi: Abdullah, Mufti families have ruined three generations of J&K

Narendra Modi, while addressing an election rally at Kathua, Jammu, rejected the narrative of two prime ministers, two flags and two constitutions for Jammu & Kashmir, which was restarted recently by National Conference leader and former state chief minister Omar Abdullah. Read More
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