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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Sukhbir Badal: ‘Congress gameplan is to book us in false cases’

Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, on Tuesday, alleged that the state Congress government is working to slap false cases against Akalis, referring to the police probe into Bargari sacrilege incident, which was ordered by the Congress government. 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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Shatrughan Sinha to BJP: ‘I am capable of answering back’

Actor-turned politician Shatrughan Sinha, after being dumped by the BJP for the Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency, on Sunday, asserted that he is “able and capable of answering back” to the party “in the same coin”. Read More
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Prasad to Rahul: ‘Your tweet must have become headline in Pak’

Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad slammed Rahul Gandhi for his tweet hitting at Narendra Modi’s “NoMo’s China diplomacy” and asked why he was in a “celebratory mood” when India is hurt as a result of China’s obstruction to list Masood Azhar as a global terrorist. Read More
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BJP, Congress in war of words over Rahul’s ‘Masood Azhar ji’ remark

The BJP attacked Rahul Gandhi for addressing the Jaish-e-Muhammed chief as “Masood Azhar ji” and slammed him with “Rahul loves terrorists” barb. The Congress responded by saying the BJP was deliberately twisting his “sarcastic” words. Read More
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Owaisi: ‘Insult to Muslims to say Ramzan will affect voting’

Some Trinamool Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party senior leaders had claimed that elections during the Muslim holy month will bring inconvenience for the community, largely seen to be backing the opposition parties, and help the BJP. Read More
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Cong’s Hariprasad: Pulwama was ‘match-fixing’ between govt and Pakistan

Senior Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP BK Hariprasad, on Thursday, claimed that there was “match-fixing” between the Bhartiya Janata Party-led government and Pakistan over the Pulwama terror attack Read More
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Lalu’s swipe at Modi: ‘I’d have pulled similar crowd at paan shop’

Rashtriya Janata Dal supremo Lalu Prasad, on Sunday, took a swipe at Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Sankalp Rally” at Patna Gandhi Maidan. Prasad said he could could have attracted a similar crowd as Modi attracted at the rally if he stopped by a roadside paan shop. Read More
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Prasad says social media must disallow anti-India posts

The Union minister for information technology and electronics, Ravi Shankar Prasad, urged social-media companies, like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube, to not allow their platforms to be abused for “weakening the morale of the country”. Read More
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