Politics

From 'Pidi Gandhi' to 'Cancer is Karma', fiery tweets from the erstwhile Tarun Gogoi loyalist Himanta Biswa Sarma have been either hailed or endorsed with conspicuous silence by the BJP.

Rahul Gandhi is likely to be elevated as the Congress chief before Gujarat Assembly elections.

The meeting of the CWC, the highest decision-making body of the Congress, is scheduled to take place at 10:30 AM at 10 Janpath. This would clear the decks for the elevation of party vice president Rahul Gandhi to take over as the next chief.

"I am glad that Moody's has done what they have done but we must not be, I think, lured into false belief that we are out of the wood," Singh said, reacting to a query on Moody's rating.

Mukul Roy, a former confidante of West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, recently joined the BJP after quitting the Trinamool Congress.

Former Haryana chief minister and Congress leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda said the meeting to discuss ways to control air pollution in Delhi, amounted to "political drama" and "wastage of time".

“Look all the 125 crore Indians can’t get jobs. So the answer to (this question of unemployment) is self-employment. This is why we have made success stories of 9 crore people through our Mudra scheme,” Shah said.

Sitaram Yechury told CNN-News18 that, Sonia Gandhi played a very crucial role in the formation of the UPA and, in the entire effort to get rid of the NDA government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee which was then necessary for the country.

Nilanshu Chaturvedi's win is a major morale booster for the Congress ahead of the assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh next year, while it has set the alarm bells ringing for the BJP, especially Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

The minister said a task force has been set up to review the air quality in Delhi-NCR well in advance and a "focused" approach has been adopted to deal with an emergency-like situation through the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP).

The BJP on Friday inaugurated its election war room in Bhopal with the slogan ‘Abki Baar –200 Paar’.

Rahul also accused Modi of speaking "selectively" on the issue of corruption and demanded to know where the jobs that the BJP had promised went.

Sources in the Congress party, however, indicate that final decision on the issue would probably be made closer to the elections as the challenge for the party is to meet Hardik Patel’s reservation demand without antagonising the OBC groups.

The Congress veteran leader told reporters in Indore that CBI was asked to investigate the Vyapam scam but the agency has started delivering the verdict.

CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan has been promising fake things to the public for the last 13 years, he said. Former union minister, Kamal Nath, was in Indore before he joined AICC general secretary in his Narmada Parikrama at Kasrawad.

On Wednesday, Rahul got off the yatra bus and climbed atop a matador for a road show through Bharuch town during the third and crucial phase of Congress’ Navsarjan Yatra.