RJD takes jibe at Amit Shah’s tweet, says ‘strike on encephalitis, please’

Lalu Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal took a swipe at Union home minister Amit Shah over his “strike” tweet on India’s win on Pakistan at the ICC World Cup and urged him to carry out a “strike” against the raging encephalitis epidemic in Bihar. Read More
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Lalu calls Rahul’s decision to resign as Congress chief ‘suicidal’

RJD chief Lalu Prasad called Rahul Gandhi’s decision to quit from the post of Congress president “suicidal”. The former Bihar chief minister, who is serving jail after being convicted of the fodder scam, said Gandhi’s resignation would be like falling into the BJP trap. Read More
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Akhilesh on Priyanka’s claim of cutting BJP votes: ‘Don’t believe it’

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, on Thursday, said that he “doesn’t believe” in Priyanka Gandhi’s claims that Congress has fielded “weak” candidates in Uttar Pradesh to eat into the Bharatiya Janata Party’s votes. Read More
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Priyanka: ‘Congress to cut into BJP’s votes, not UP alliance’s’

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, on Wednesday, assured that the party is not trying cut into votes of the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party-Rashtriya Janata Dal alliance in Uttar Pradesh, but into BJP votes. Read More
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Tejashwi Yadav claims father facing ‘Inhuman treatment’ in jail

RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, on Thursday, claimed that his father Lalu Prasad Yadav, who is currently in jail and admitted in Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi, is getting “inhuman treatment” there. He said that he is being treated worse than a prisoner of war. Read More
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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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Lalu claims Nitish wanted to return to mahagathbandhan

Former Bihar chief minister and RJD chief Lalu Prasad, in his forthcoming biography – “Gopalganj to Raisina: My Political Journey” – has claimed that JD(U) and current Bihar CM Nitish Kumar has wanted to realign with his party and get back into the Bihar mahagathbandhan. Read More
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Kanhaiya says ‘my fight is against politics of polarization’

Kanhaiya Kumar said, “My fight is not against any individual but an ideology … against that ideology which talks about politics of polarization, divisiveness, attacking constitution and slamming democratic institutions. It’s a contest between haq aur loot (rights and loot); saach aur jhoot (truth an Read More
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Shatrughan says Congress is a national party in ‘true sense’

Actor turned politician, Shatrughan Sinha, who had decided on quitting the Bharatiya Janata Party, on Sunday, said he decided to join the Congress as it was a national party in the “true sense” and in addition family friend Lalu Prasad also advised to do the same. Read More
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Kanhaiya says his fight is against Giriraj’s ‘fundamentalist thinking’

Kanhaiya Kumar said his fight in Begusarai will be against the “fundamentalist thinking” of Giriraj Singh, who seldom looked an Indian minister but like a “Pakistan visa minister”. Read More
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