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New Delhi: Former Goa Congress president Luizinho Faleiro has reopened an old wound accusing Congress general secretary Digvijaya Singh, then in-charge of the state of scuttling the party’s chances to form government. He accused him of allowing the BJP to steal the mandate despite the losing the election. The Congress had emerged as the single-largest party in 2017 Goa assembly elections.

Faleiro, who was the state Congress president at the time of the elections, said Singh preferred to wait rather than rushing to the governor with the letters of support the Congress had.

“That night… general secretary Digvijaya Singh did not allow me to hand over the letter to the Governor for the formation of the Congress government,” Faleiro said.

New Delhi: Indian Army’s top commander in Jammu and Kashmir accused Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) spy agency of “controlling” the Jaish-e-Mohammad terrorists behind the February 14 attack on a paramilitary convoy. He said that the outfit’s leadership in the Valley had been “wiped out” in an operation.

Lieutenant general Kanwal Jeet Singh Dhillon, who was addressing a press briefing along with Inspector General of Police Swayam Prakash Pani and Inspector General (operations) of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) Zulfiqar Hassan, also urged Kashmiri mothers to get their militant sons to surrender or see them dead.

New Delhi: Just before the 2019 Lok Sabha elections are announced, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has finalised its alliance with the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) and the Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) in Tamil Nadu. The state sends the fourth highest number of representatives to the Lok Sabha, 39, after Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, and West Bengal.

The BJP will contest five of these seats, and the AIADMK 25. Earlier in the day, the AIADMK announced its partnership with the PMK, which will contest seven seats. The other two seats have been reserved for smaller parties that will be part of the alliance. They are likely to include actor Vijayakant’s Desiya Murpoku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK). The AIADMK said the PMK will also be allotted a Rajya Sabha berth. Analysts say the AIADMK may also give some seats from its quota to the smaller parties.

New Delhi: The Congress has found its first partner to fight the general elections in Uttar Pradesh with the grand old party announcing an alliance with the little-known Mahan Dal which claims support among some backward classes in few pockets in central and western UP.

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Congress general secretary for eastern U.P. and Jyotiraditya Scindia, general secretary for western U.P. welcomed Mahan Dal chief Keshav Dev Maurya at the UPCC headquarters after making the announcement.

Priyanka asserted this was an attempt to realise the goal that Congress president Rahul Gandhi had set for them.

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared the credit for all the work done during his government’s tenure with the opposition and at the same time, hurled many barbs at them as well while delivering his last speech to the Lok Sabha ahead of the upcoming General Elections.

In his address on the last day of the Lok Sabha’s Budget session, he said that the country was today the 6th largest economy in the world and was well on its way to becoming a $5 trillion economy.

Listing out his government’s achievements, he said, “There is a lot of confidence in the country now. Major organisations around the world are talking about India. India has made a place for itself in the digital world. We have now become the centre for economic activity with our initiatives such as Make in India.”

New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath visited the family of slain CRPF constable Pankaj Tripathi in Maharajganj district’s Harpur Belhiya village to pay tribute to the constable. The CM assured Tripathi’s family that their demands would be fulfilled. Tripathi was one of the 40 Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel killed in the terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Pulwama district.

Adityanath spoke to family members and enquired when Tripathi had last come home. The constable’s father, Om Prakash Tripathi, said, “He (the chief minister) didn’t ask us about our demand and has not told us what we will be getting. We wrote our demands in a piece of paper and gave it to the chief minister. He kept it and told us that our demands will be met.”