Photographs of Rahul Gandhi — new and old, and in different looks — dotted the road leading from Kanyakumari to Nagercoil as the Congress’s Bharat Jodo Yatra passed through. But one hoarding stood out: this one showed Rahul holding a plough, farmer-style. Clearly photoshopped, the image caught everyone’s attention. Trailing,Read More →
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla revoked the suspension of four Congress MPs on Monday, after seeking assurance from the Opposition that they would not bring placards to the House. Congress MPs Manickam Tagore, Ramya Haridas, T N Prathapan and S Jothimani had been earlier suspended by Rajendra Agrawal, who wasRead More →
Two days before Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury’s “Rashtrapatni” remark rocked Parliament, there was a brief row in the Lok Sabha over the alternative word to address a woman President. When Simranjit Singh Mann, who was elected to the Lok Sabha in the recent by-election from Sangrur in Punjab, statedRead More →
As the Enforcement Directorate questioned Sonia Gandhi for the third time, the Congress on Wednesday fielded veterans Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma — the two prominent members of the G23 that has been critical of the leadership’s style of functioning — to defend her. Azad made an emotional pitchRead More →
Days after it came to light that nearly 800 Pakistani Hindus in Rajasthan returned to that country last year, Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday wrote to Union Home Minister Amit Shah and sought immediate steps by the government to ensure that “our Hindu brethren” doRead More →
Amid a full-blown political battle between the Trinamool Congress and the BJP over the violence in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, Congress leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday wrote to President Ram Nath Kovind, urging him to invoke Article 355 of the Constitution to ensure that the stateRead More →
Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday told a group of Congress MPs, after Lok Sabha was adjourned, that the issue of a ban on news channel Media One’s licence has been forwarded to MHA officials, who are examining it. The development comes a week after a delegation of Lok SabhaRead More →
