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Siddaramiah says JD(S)-Cong govt strong, rubbishes Yeddyurappa's claims that it will fall
Former Karnataka chief minister Siddaramaiah Monday asserted that the JDS-Congress government was a 'strong' one and ridiculed state BJP president B S Yeddyurappa for repeatedly claiming that the coalition will collapse. In a series of tweets, he also said the people's mandate was for continuation of the BJP-led government at the Centre and not for 'toppling' the state government. "Yeddyurappa has been saying for the past one year the government will fall. He will continue to say the same for the next four years. I am confident the government is strong," Siddaramaiah said. Referring to Prime Minister Narenda Modi bowing to the Constitution after being elected leader of the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance on Saturday, he sought to know which article in the Constitution gave the BJP the right to topple a state government. "@BSYBJP (Yeddyurappa) claims to form the govt inspite of not having the number. This is not a new drama but this is continuously misleading the public. Mr. ...
India, Bangladesh resolve to curb cross-border crimes
Indian and Bangladeshi officials on Monday jointly resolved to curb drugs smuggling, human trafficking and other cross-border crimes.
China opposes rare US-Taiwan officials meet
China on Monday said it was firmly opposed to a meeting between the US and Taiwan security officials, asking Washington to stop any official contact with the self-governed island to avoid its ties with Beijing being hurt.
2 R'than ministers demand detailed review of Cong poll debacle
Amid speculation of one Rajasthan minister quitting in the wake of the Congress' election debacle, two state ministers have come out in the open to demand a detailed assessment by senior leaders of the party. Cooperative Minister Udai Lal Anjana, and Food and Civil Supplies Minister Ramesh Meena have said the party should review the defeat in detail so that it stands up again and performs well in upcoming local body elections in the state. "The results were beyond expectations. Voters were swayed by the issue of nationalism raised by the BJP. Our leaders, too, made full efforts, but it was not acceptable to the people," Anjana told reporters here. "Our senior leaders are doing brainstorming in Delhi and party president Rahul Gandhi offered his resignation. There should be self-introspection by the leaders," he said. Asked whether any senior leader from the state should resign over the defeat, Anjana said he was not in such a position to comment on that. Meena said feedback should be ..
Karnataka govt will collapse after Jun 10: Cong leader KN Ranjanna
After the debacle of JD(S) and Congress in the Lok Sabha elections, senior Congress leader KN Rajanna on Monday claimed that the coalition government of JD(S) and Congress will collapse after June 10."We would not have lost in Tumkur. We lost the election because of zero traffic minister (Deputy Chief Minister Dr G Parameshwar) we lost because of him. He will remain as the deputy chief minister till the Prime Minister takes oath, after that he will not be minister," Rajanna said."This government will not remain in power as it will collapse after June 10. I have been told that he must have lost his post even before but as per my sources, BJP people in the state stopped till the Prime Minister takes the oath," Ranjanna said.JD(S) supremo and former Prime Minister HD Devegowda had contested Lok Sabha elections from Tumkuru seat but lost to BJP's GS Basavaraj. BJP won 25 parliamentary seats out of 28 in Karnataka.Attacking Parameshwar, the Congress leader said, "He has done nothing for ...
Chemistry prevailed over arithmetic in LS polls: Modi in Varanasi
In a veiled attack on the opposition and political pundits, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asserted that chemistry prevailed over arithmetic in the Lok Sabha elections and said that the hattrick of results in 2014, 2017 and 2019 polls in the Uttar Pradesh has given a new direction to national politics.Addressing BJP workers on his first visit to his constituency after the massive mandate for him and his coalition in the country, he accused political experts of attempting to create a negative perception about his party which was still being treated as a political untouchable.The political experts were also practising selective sensitivity and humanism when it comes to killings of BJP workers in Kerala, West Bengal and Tripura by keeping quiet on the killings of hundreds of BJP workers for political reasons.Modi said, "Today UP has given a direction to national politics. Even though I am speaking from Kashi but all of the Uttar Pradesh need to be thanked. UP is consolidating the base of ..
TRS leader's supporter dies of shock over her defeat
Disheartened by the defeat of Telangana Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao's daughter K. Kavitha in the Lok Sabha elections, one of her supporters died of shock, TRS leaders said on Monday.
CWC did not caste aspersions on any individual, discussed performance: Congress
The Congress said on Monday that the CWC meeting on Saturday held a collective deliberation on the partys performance in the Lok Sabha polls instead of casting aspersions on the role or conduct of any specific individual and any "conjectures, speculations, insinuations, assumptions" in the media about its deliberations were "uncalled for and unwarranted".
BJP got mandate to run govt at Centre not to destablise Karanataka govt: Siddaramaiah
Senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Monday said there will not be any expansion of cabinet or dissolution of Karnataka's Congress-JD(U) coalition government led by Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy after the poll debacle of both parties in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.Siddaramaiah said that people of the state had given their mandate on who should run the government at the Centre and not against the state government."People of the nation have given mandate to BJP to run the government at the Center and not to destabilise the state government in Karnataka. Election results came against us but that do not mean state Assembly should be dissolved, it is nonsense," Siddaramaiah tweeted days after the BJP won 25 parliamentary seats out of 28 in the state in the recently concluded elections.This remark came after two Congress MLAs Ramesh Jarkiholi and Sudhakar met BJP leader R Ashok at veteran leader SM Krishna's residence in Bengaluru on ...
Rajasthan Minister quits amid possible leadership change?
Amid speculation of a leadership change in Rajasthan, Congress leader Lal Chand Kataria has reportedly resigned as Agriculture Minister, citing the rout of the party in the Lok Sabha elections.
Key takeaways from Trump-Abe press conference
United States President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe discussed economic relations, Iran, North Korea, China and stability of the Indo-Pacific region during their much-anticipated bilateral talk in Tokyo on Monday.One of the significant takeaways from the joint press conference conducted by the two leaders following the bilateral talks was the decisive statement by Trump that the US was not seeking "regime change" in Iran."We're not looking for regime change. I want to make that clear," CNN quoted Trump as saying. "We're looking for no nuclear weapons."The statement has come two days after Trump announced that the US would deploy about 1500 additional troops to the middle east as a "protective measure."Shortly before the press conference, the US President had met with the families of citizens who were abducted by North Korea decades ago. During the meeting, Trump told the families that he would be working with Abe to bring their relatives home."I can also tell ...
People have rejected caste-based politics in UP: Amit Shah
BJP president Amit Shah on Monday said people have rejected caste-based politics in Uttar Pradesh and development is the only way to win elections in the state."Yogi (Adityanath) ji's government is working on the roadmap set by the BJP manifesto. (Narendra) Modi ji did detailed planning on the requirements of UP and included it in the party manifesto. People used to say that parties win elections in UP on caste-based politics but now development is the only way to win elections in the state," Shah said while addressing a public gathering here."We got 50 per cent vote share and it has been proved that Uttar Pradesh is a bastion of BJP. In the next five years, the state will be listed as most-developed," he said.Of the 80 Lok Sabha seats in UP, BJP won 62 in the recently concluded elections. Two went to its ally Apna Dal while Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party could garner 15 seats.Shah was in Varanasi for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first visit to his constituency after ...
DMK leader Dayanidhi Maran meets MKK president, expresses thanks
DMK leader and MP from Central Chennai Dayanidhi Maran on Monday met Manithaneya Makkal Katchi (MKK) party president M. H. Jawahirullah here to express his thanks after DMK-led alliance swept the state in Lok Sabha elections."I thank the people who voted me to power. We won because of the hard work of the alliance leaders. I came here to thank MMK party. I will meet people of Central Chennai from tomorrow for thanking people," said Dayanidhi Maran."The strategy of DMK president MK Stalin to forge an alliance in which he allocated half seats to coalition partners worked very well. Had the Congress and other parties would have come together elsewhere, as they have done in Tamil Nadu the situation would have been very different," said M. H. Jawahirullah, president, MKK.The DMK-led alliance in the state, which includes the Congress, Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK), Communist Party of India (CPI) and Communist Party of India (Marxist) along with several other smaller parties, routed ..
Goa bypolls: Newly elected MLAs to take oath on Tuesday
The four newly-elected MLAs in Goa would be sworn in on Tuesday, state Assembly Speaker Michael Lobo has said. In the recent bypolls held in four seats of the state, BJP's Subhash Shirodkar, Dayanand Sopte and Joshua D'Souza won from Shiroda, Mandrem and Mapusa, respectively, while Congress nominee Atanasio Monserrate emerged victorious in Panaji. All of them will be administered the oath of office in the Assembly complex at 11 am on Tuesday, Lobo said. The Panaji Assembly bypoll was necessitated due to the death of sitting BJP MLA and former chief minister Manohar Parrikar in March, while the death of sitting BJP MLA Francis D'Souza necessitated the bypoll in Mapusa. The bypolls in Shiroda and Mandrem became necessary following the resignation of their sitting Congress MLAs. Following the declaration of the bypoll results last week, the BJP is now the single largest party with 17 MLAs in the 40-member Assembly, followed by the Congress which has 15 legislators. Besides, .
Sunil Jakhar latest Congressman to offer resignation after LS debacle
Punjab Congress chief Sunil Jakhar has offered to resign from his post after he lost elections from Gurdaspur - a seat he wrestled from the BJP in 2017 by-polls.The Congress won eight of Punjab's 13 Lok Sabha seats in recently-concluded Lok Sabha elections. Jakhar, however, lost to newly-minted BJP leader Sunny Deol by a considerable margin of 82,459 votes.Late actor Vinod Khanna had won the seat for the BJP in 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014. in 2017, his death necessitated the by-poll in which Jakhar emerged victorious.Along with Punjab, the state unit presidents of Assam, Jharkhand, Odisha, and Madhya Pradesh have also offered to resign from their positions after the party fared poorly the national polls in each of their states.As per sources, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, during the party's working committee meeting, also offered to resign from his post, however, it was declined by senior leaders.Further denying any such development, the party on Monday released a statement, saying, .
Dovish Trump says not looking for regime change in Iran
President Donald Trump said Monday the United States was not seeking "regime change" in Iran despite mounting tensions, in dovish comments also praising North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un as a "very smart guy." Speaking after summit talks with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump seemed at pains to dial down tensions in the world's two most pressing flashpoints as the US faces increasingly bellicose regimes in Tehran and Pyongyang. "We're not looking for regime change, I just want to make that clear, we're looking for no nuclear weapons," Trump said in relation to Iran, adding that he was "not looking to hurt" Tehran and believes the two sides could come to a deal. He had earlier opened the door to negotiations with the regime in Tehran, saying: "if they'd like to talk, we'd like to talk also." Washington has decided to deploy 1,500 additional troops to the Middle East amid growing friction with Tehran after Trump pulled out of a landmark nuclear deal and later re-instated tough ...
Venezuelan national apprehended at Delhi airport; cocaine seized
Narcotics Control Bureau on Monday arrested a Venezuelan national and seized cocaine here at Indira Gandhi International airport, according to a press release by the Narcotics Control Bureau (NBC).The accused was apprehended by NCB officers at Delhi airport after receiving information from a reliable source. The accused was later brought to a government hospital in New Delhi for X-ray test."Upon scrutinizing the test report, the doctors opined that there are foreign objects in the stomach of the accused. They further advised for the admission of the accused so that he could be treated for the expulsion of the foreign objects," NCB said in a statement.After appropriate medication, a total of 65 capsules of cocaine were expelled from the body of the apprehended person, it added.Preliminary investigation revealed that he came to India via Addis Ababa. Foreign authorities are also being approached in relation to the matter.Further investigation is being conducted to identify the local ...
Situation could have been different had Vaibhav Gehlot contested from Jalore: Rajasthan Minister Udai Lal
In the backdrop of Congress' Lok Sabha poll drubbing, especially in Rajasthan, where BJP swept all 25 seats, Rajasthan Minister Udai Lal Anjana said that situation would have been different if Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot followed his advice of fielding his son Vaibhav Gehlot from Jalore instead of Jodhpur.His remark also came following Congress president Rahul Gandhi's strident remarks about top party leaders such as Kamal Nath, Ashok Gehlot and P Chidambaram working towards promoting their own sons above the party in the just concluded general elections."I had suggested it in 2014 and this time also, I had approached him three to four times and told him that his son Vaibhav should be made to contest from Jalore instead of Jodhpur. Had he contested from Jalore, the situation would have been different for the Congress and such results should not have come," said Udai Lal Anjana."I have contested the 2014 elections from Jalore and I know about the social, political and caste equation ...
SC seeks reply from Maharashtra government, MCI on 10 pc quota
The Supreme Court on Monday sought a reply from Maharashtra government and the Medical Council of India (MCI) on a plea seeking a direction to the state government not to implement the 10 per cent quota for economically weaker section (EWS) general category students in the post-graduate medical admissions.A vacation bench comprising Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justice Aniruddha Bose has posted the matter for hearing on Thursday.The petition, filed by Janhit Abhiyan, had come up before a vacation bench of Justices Arun Mishra, Bhushan Ramkrishna Gavai and Surya Kant. Last week, the bench deferred the matter till March 27.In February, Maharashtra government had issued a notification after the state Cabinet approved the Centre's decision to implement 10 per cent reservation to EWS students among the general category in government jobs and educational institutions across the state.The Parliament had passed the Constitution (124th Amendment) Bill, 2019, approving a 10 per cent ...
Varanasi will develop further, says Amit Shah
BJP President Amit Shah on Monday pledged to develop Kashi further in the next five years following Prime Minister Narendra Modi's spectacular victory in the Lok Sabha election from here.