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Why AAP launched fresh attack on Cong ahead of INDIA bloc’s big Delhi meet: Reason lies northwards

Why AAP launched fresh attack on Cong ahead of INDIA bloc’s big Delhi meet: Reason lies northwards

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As the INDIA bloc’s partners gathered in Delhi on Monday, the Aam Aadmi Party not only stayed away from any new alignment with it, but also sharpened its attack on the Congress, the largest Opposition party that leads the alliance. Aam Aadmi Party convener Arvind Kejriwal with the party’s Punjab MLAs in New Delhi last month. (X/@ArvindKejriwal) AAP leader Somnath Bharti outright declared that the alliance — which the party formally exited in 2025 barring issue-based support thereafter — had “no future” so long as the Congress led it. “[Congress] said on one hand that we would fight as an alliance and back each other, but behind the scenes [it] appears to be with the BJP,” Bharti said. The INDIA bloc meeting at the heart of the attack was held in the national capital, but the fight that keeps the two parties estranged lies further northward in the immediate — in Punjab. Grouses cited in Capital Bharti’s stated grievances were specific to Delhi; he recalled that AAP and the Congress had split the capital’s seven …

RS polls: JMM nominates ex-min Baidyanath Ram

RS polls: JMM nominates ex-min Baidyanath Ram

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Days before the crucial Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc meeting, Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary MA Baby has sought a clarification from the Congress over its leader Rahul Gandhi’s allegations that the CPI(M) had an understanding with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) during the Kerala assembly elections campaign. RS polls: JMM nominates ex-min Baidyanath Ram The meeting, scheduled to be held in the national capital on June 8, is being closely watched because it is the first meeting of the grouping since December 2023. Since then, the INDIA bloc has lost the Lok Sabha elections and won just two of the 14 state elections that followed. While Trinamool Congress (TMC) chief Mamata Banerjee, TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, and Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav are expected to attend, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) has announced that it would not be attending the meeting, calling the Congress’s decision to tie up with the Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK) a “betrayal”. Referring to Gandhi’s repeated attacks on …

INDIA bloc likely to meet in Delhi on June 8 to discuss strategy, reinforce unity

INDIA bloc likely to meet in Delhi on June 8 to discuss strategy, reinforce unity

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Senior leaders of the opposition INDIA bloc are likely to meet in the national capital on June 8 to discuss their joint strategy to take on the BJP-led government and reinforce opposition unity, sources said. Among those likely to participate are TMC supremo and former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, the sources said. (@INCIndia) The meeting, which is expected to bring together representatives of around 15 opposition parties, comes in the backdrop of the recent assembly elections in which two main INDIA bloc constituents Trinamool Congress (TMC) and DMK were ousted from power in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, respectively. Among those likely to participate are TMC supremo and former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray, Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, the sources said. With the Congress snapping ties with the DMK and siding with TVK, DMK is unlikely …

Sanjay Raut backs Mamata Banerjee, calls election process “questionable”

Sanjay Raut backs Mamata Banerjee, calls election process “questionable”

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Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut on Wednesday openly backed  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee`s criticism of the Election Commission`s role and BJP “looting” the democratic process saying her concerns about the polls deserved attention, as per ANI. He said Banerjee’s remarks about rigging and voter deletions were “true” and questioned the role of the Election Commission. Raut stated, “The Election Commission is the villain, and the villain won the election… She (TMC chief) says that 100 Assembly seats were rigged; this is true.” “It is also true that the names of lakhs of people were deleted. All these things that Mamata Banerjee said are true,” Raut added, reported the agency. Raut supports Mamata Banerjee’s decision to not resign Banerjee had earlier rejected demands for resignation after the BJP secured a large majority in West Bengal, winning 207 seats while the Trinamool Congress was reduced to 80. She insisted she did not accept the result as a moral defeat and refused to step down or go to Raj Bhavan. She also labelled the Chief …

Why Mamata and Stalin hold the keys to the Opposition’s survival against ‘Team Delhi’

Why Mamata and Stalin hold the keys to the Opposition’s survival against ‘Team Delhi’

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DMK chief and Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin had dubbed the recently concluded Assembly elections in his state as a battle between “Team Delhi” and “Team Tamil Nadu”. In West Bengal, his counterpart Mamata Banerjee has repeatedly stressed she is up against “outsiders” and is fighting hard to protect Bengali identity and language. Both Stalin and Banerjee, two of the Opposition’s biggest leaders from the South and the East — have drawn battlelines against the BJP, Centre and its apparatus, setting the tone for a high-stakes confrontation with the ruling party at the Centre in New Delhi. May 4, for this reason, is crucial for the two powerful regional satraps, one seeking a second straight term and another a fourth. Their electoral fate is closely linked, and deeply entwined, with the largely weakened INDIA bloc and anti-BJP camp. Their win or loss could trigger a churn within Opposition ranks, now led informally by the Congress, which remains the largest party in the bloc in Parliament. Monday is also crucial for the Congress as …

Rajya Sabha Elections 2026 LIVE: Voting For 37 Seats Across 10 States Today; Nitish Kumar, Sharad Pawar In Fray

Rajya Sabha Elections 2026 LIVE: Voting For 37 Seats Across 10 States Today; Nitish Kumar, Sharad Pawar In Fray

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Rajya Sabha Elections 2026 LIVE Updates: Elections for 37 seats in the Rajya Sabha across 10 states will be held today (March 16), as the terms of several parliamentarians are set to end in April. According to the schedule announced by the Election Commission, polling will take place from 9 am to 4 pm, while the counting of votes will begin at 5 pm. The term of 37 members who were elected from Maharashtra, Odisha, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, and Telangana will conclude in the month of April, vacating the seats for new members to be elected. Out of these, 26 candidates have already secured victory unopposed. Voting will now take place for the remaining 11 seats, including five from Bihar, four from Odisha, and two from Haryana. Among the prominent candidates, Bihar’s longest-serving Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and BJP president Nitin Nabin are expected to be elected to the Rajya Sabha in the biennial polls. In key battlegrounds in Bihar, Haryana, and Odisha, the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance …

Akhilesh Yadav vows to unify INDIA bloc together, affirms SP-Congress alliance

Akhilesh Yadav vows to unify INDIA bloc together, affirms SP-Congress alliance

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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday affirmed that his party’s ties with the Congress will continue despite the bloc’s defeat in the Bihar Assembly polls and will make efforts to bring all alliance partners together. File photo of Samajwadi Party MP Akhilesh Yadav.(PTI) Addressing a press conference here, the SP chief alleged that the BJP wants to delete votes through a mapping app used for Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Uttar Pradesh. He further alleged that the mapping app was developed by the company which had given the saffron party donations through the electoral bonds. He acknowledged that the experience in Bihar was not as good as it should have been. “We will run the INDIA alliance and make efforts to bring the partners of the INDIA alliance together.” His comments assume significance as the ruling BJP at the Centre has claimed that “cracks” have emerged in the INDIA Alliance and that it will disintegrate soon. According to Yadav, there was a mismatch between the electoral data being uploaded in the …

Parliament Winter Session Day 3 Live Updates: Privilege Motion Against Renuka Chaudhary Over ‘Barking Dogs’ Remark

Parliament Winter Session Day 3 Live Updates: Privilege Motion Against Renuka Chaudhary Over ‘Barking Dogs’ Remark

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Parliament Winter Session Day 3 Live Updates: The Rajya Sabha is expected to take up a privilege motion against Renuka Chaudhary today over her recent “dogs and barking” remarks, which several members believe undermine parliamentary decorum and security norms. The Upper House is currently reviewing the issue as political manoeuvring builds ahead of the next sitting. India Bloc Meeting: Leaders of the INDIA bloc will meet at 9.45 am on Thursday in Parliament to finalise their joint floor strategy. Meanwhile, an all-party meeting has agreed to schedule a full-day debate on Vande Mataram next Tuesday, December 9. SIR Protests: Tuesday, the second day of the Winter Session, both houses of Parliament saw protests to discuss the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) drive carried out by the government. Slogans like ‘SIR pe charcha’, ‘vote chor gaddi chhor’, and others were made prompting the government to hold a discussion on next Tuesday, December 9. Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to their respective owners. For more …

‘Lesson For INDIA Bloc, But EC’s Misdeeds…’: Stalin After NDA’s Landslide Bihar Win | India News

‘Lesson For INDIA Bloc, But EC’s Misdeeds…’: Stalin After NDA’s Landslide Bihar Win | India News

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Last Updated:November 15, 2025, 09:09 IST While extending congratulations to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on the victory, Stalin did not hold back in criticising what he called the ECI’s declining credibility. Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin. Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin reacted strongly to the National Democratic Alliance’s sweeping victory in the 2025 Bihar Assembly Elections, terming the result both a “lesson” for the INDIA alliance and a reminder of what he described as the “misdeeds” of the Election Commission of India (ECI).  While extending congratulations to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Stalin did not hold back in criticising what he called the ECI’s declining credibility. Notably, DMK is part of the opposition INDIA bloc. What Stalin said? In a detailed post on X, Stalin congratulated JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar for the NDA’s decisive win, saying the veteran leader had earned the trust of the people of Bihar. He also appreciated RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav for leading a spirited and energetic campaign despite the opposition alliance’s poor overall performance. However, …

Opposition to leave call on alliance to local units for first phase of civic polls | Mumbai News

Opposition to leave call on alliance to local units for first phase of civic polls | Mumbai News

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The Opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) has decided to leave the decision on forming alliance for the upcoming first phase of municipal council and municipal panchayat elections in Maharashtra to the local units of the parties. Leaders of the the MVA, including from Sena UBT, NCP(SP), and Congress, held a meeting in Mumbai on Tuesday but refrained from announcing the alliance. “The meeting was about general coordination between the constituents of INDIA bloc. It was decided to allow local units to take their decision on contesting these elections as per their wish, since a huge number of workers from all parties are willing to contest these elections. No party can afford to ask workers to back down since the local body polls are being held after a long gap,” said a senior Congress leader. The leader said that wherever necessary, the alliance will take place depending on the local conditions. The meeting did not finalise about the inclusion of Raj Thackeray led Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) in the MVA. The Congress had kept distance with …