Mamata Banerjee

India

September 21, 2019

PM Modi turns 69 Prime Minister Narendra Modi turned 69 on Tuesday, September 17. He spent his birthday in his home state of Gujarat and visited the Sardar Sarovar Dam in Narmada district. Amit Shah’s Hindi push fails to entice pan India BJP’s tallest leader of South India and Karnataka chief minister BS Yediyurappa on Monday rebuffed Amit Shah’s push to make Hindi a common language across the country. At present, 22 languages are recognised [...]Read More

India

August 31, 2019

No intervention of third party on Kashmir: PM Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi has rejected the intervention of any third party on Kashmir. On Monday, August 26, while he was in France attending the G-7 meeting, Modi reiterated that India and Pakistan can discuss all issues and “we don’t want to trouble any third country.” The PM made this remark while talking to the media alongside the US President Donald Trump. India has made it [...]Read More

Elections 2019, Politics

May 26, 2019

The birth of the Left in India was rooted in the nation’s continuing struggle to obtain freedom from the British colonial rule in the early 20th-century. Rise of Leftist ideology before Independence The Leftist ideology gained prominence during the Russian Revolution of 1917. The revolution under the leadership of Lenin had a gigantic influence on world politics. In India, a socialist ideology started taking shape when labourers and farmers toiling away in the countryside joined [...]Read More

Elections 2019

May 15, 2019

PM challenges Mamata Banerjee in her backyard Prime Minister Modi arrived in Kolkata to address rallies in Basirhat and Diamond Harbour. Earlier in the day, he addressed rallies in Paliganj in Bihar and Deoghar in Jharkhand. In the outskirts of Kolkata, his first rally was at Basirhat in support of BJP candidate from Sayantan Basu. In both rallies, the PM immediately launched into attacking Mamata Banerjee saying the people of Bengal were ready to vote [...]Read More

Elections 2019

May 6, 2019

BJP’s Hindi heartland performance on test in the 5th phase of polling Phase 5 will shape the outcome of the 2019 general elections. 51 seats are in contention, but the stakes are higher for the BJP as it must defend 39 seats of 51 it won in 2014. These 39 seats are largely in the Hindi heartland that voted largely in favour of the BJP in 2014. Let’s take a closer look at the challenge [...]Read More

Elections 2019

May 4, 2019

BJP hopes of a bigger sunrise in Bengal BJP is losing votes in the Hindi heartland and is on a weaker wicket in the northeast. That leaves two crucial states in BJP’s calculation which must deliver gains for the party – West Bengal and Odisha. In West Bengal BJP is targeting winning at least 20 constituencies out of 42. In 2014, BJP received 25.3 percent vote share 10 constituencies, second highest after TMC’S 29.3 percent. [...]Read More

Elections 2019

April 10, 2019

Rahul Gandhi leads massive roadshow on the way to filing Amethi nomination papers It was a show of strength in Gauriganj with Rahul Gandhi riding an open-top vehicle on a 3 km road stretch as he proceeded towards filing his nomination papers from Amethi Lok Sabha seat. On the truck with Rahul Gandhi was his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, her husband Robert Vadra and their son Raihan and daughter Miraya. Sonia Gandhi along with Priyanka [...]Read More

Elections 2019

April 6, 2019

PM Modi confident of surpassing 2014 poll results Speaking with the Hindustan Times today, PM Modi expressed confidence in going past the 2014 poll performance. He spoke on his government’s performance during the past five years, the demonetization controversy, the political opposition, and why he believes the country is better placed today than when he took over in 2014. When asked the three areas where his government performed the best, the PM replied it was [...]Read More

Elections 2019

April 3, 2019

BSP Supremo Mayawati unveils PM ambitions BSP Leader Mayawati hinted at her PM ambitions during a press conference in Vishakhapatnam today. Accompanied by her ally in Andhra Pradesh, Pawan Kalyan of Jana Sena party, Mayawati said she has served Uttar Pradesh four times as a CM and gathered a lot of experience during these tenures. She said her services are now needed at the centre and were willing to work for the greater good of [...]Read More

Elections 2019

March 31, 2019

PM Modi connects to the nation with ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign PM Modi addressed a Town Hall at Talkatora Stadium in New Delhi in a nationally televised addressed to the nation. He began with profiling the chowkidar and how he embodies the spirit of an alert chowkidar in protecting the nation. The PM took questions from select attendees from various parts of the country on various topics of security and public interest, answering in his [...]Read More