Politics

Former Union minister Shashi Tharoor hit back to the BJP's criticism saying that whenever the saffron party conducts indefensible policies, it prefers to shelter behind 'national interests'.

In the BMC elections held in 2017, the BJP had made huge strides by winning 82 seats out of total 227 seats in the BMC, closing the gap with the Sena which bagged 86 seats.

As Pakistan couldn't fight a conventional war, it resorted to sending terrorists to attack Indian forces, the Union defence minister said.

Rahul Gandhi had quit as president of the party following the Congress' poor show in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections and his mother Sonia Gandhi took over as interim chief of the party.

Congress MLA from Biaora, Govardhan Dangi, had lashed out at Thakur for her statement on Godse, and said that not just her effigy, the Bhopal MP would be burnt if she came to the protest site.

She said a national database of more than seven lakh offenders found guilty of rape is readied to keep an eye on them.

The Union minister was speaking in the Lok Sabha on the Unnao rape issue when she was interrupted by two Congress MPs who apparently got up from their seats and rushed towards the treasury benches.

Dhananjay Munde's comments come ahead of a meeting of the GST Council after last month five non-BJP ruled states complained over delay in payment of GST compensation by the Centre.

The Trinamool Congress chief also claimed that industrialists in the country feel intimidated by central agencies such as the CBI, the ED and the Income Taxt Department.

The BJP has protested in Parliament against Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury's remarks calling the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah 'infiltrators' and demanded that he apologise.

Political circles were abuzz since Sunday when Munde wrote a Facebook post on her 'future journey' in view of the changed political circumstances in Maharashtra where the Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress have united to form the government.

Attacking Fadnavis again over the hush-hush ceremony in which he was sworn in as chief minister on November 23 but had to quit 80 hours later, an editorial in Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' said the BJP has lost a face having mass appeal.

The former prime minister expressed confidence that the JD(S) would win all the 15 seats in the upcoming bypolls, including in those segments where the then rebel MLAs of the party were contesting on BJP tickets.

The boycott was against the 'unlawful manner' in which the ministers were sworn in and the House session convened, BJP legislature unit leader Devendra Fadnavis said.

The row began after BJP Bhopal MP Pragya Thakur called Godse a patriot during a discussion on SPG (Amendment) Bill on November 27, though she denied using the term in a statement made in the Lok Sabha.

The state Assembly session began around 2 pm on Saturday in which the Uddhav Thackeray-led government will face the floor test.