Chandigarh: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Punjab dealt a major setback for Congress in Majitha. On Saturday, several senior Congress leaders and grassroots workers left the traditional party and joined the AAP. Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann formally inducted all the leaders into AAP and welcomed them into the party. Majitha constituency in-charge Talbir Singh.
A tense political situation unfolded in Bathinda on the last day of nomination filing for the local body elections, as leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), and Congress created chaos outside the nomination centre.
As things stand now, AICC general secretary (organisation) K.C. Venugopal appears to enjoy the backing of a majority among the Congressā 63 legislators.
:Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi, on Monday (May 11) hit back at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent 'seven appeals' to counter the ongoing West Asia crisis, and termed them as "failures" rather than "sermons."
BJP leaders on Monday welcomed Prime Minister Narendra Modiās participation in the Somnath Amrut Mahotsav, while slamming the previous Congress-led governments for "destroying the Sanatan culture" by what they described as appeasement of a specific community.
Chandigarh MP and former Union Minister Manish Tiwari have attacked the central government. He said that since the BJP came to power at the center in 2014, government agencies and intelligence systems have been continuously misused. In Punjab, the Vigilance Department, and at the central government level, the ED and CBI are being misused.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday took a sharp dig at the Congress, accusing it of blaming āthe entire worldā for its electoral defeats due to arrogance and alleging that the party had backstabbed its ally, the DMK, in Tamil Nadu.
