Politics

Saket Gokhale arrest: TMC to rake up ‘excesses’ by Central agencies in Winter Session

On a day when their National Spokesperson Saket Gokhale was picked up by Gujarat Police for an alleged tweet against the Morbi accident, sources in Trinamool Congress told The New Indian the party would rake up the issue of use of central agencies against members of Opposition in the Parliament.  “Discussions on federal structure is […]

Use G20 presidency to seal UNSC permanent seat, Cong urges PM Modi

The newly-elected President of Congress Mallikarjun Kharge made several suggestions at the all party G20 meet chaired by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the national capital, chief among them was capitalizing on the global exposure to seal a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council. It is learnt that the grand old party chief […]

TMC claims Saket Gokhale arrested by Gujarat police over Morbi tweet

Alleging “political vendetta” by the BJP, Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress has claimed that its national spokesperson Saket Gokhale has been arrested by Gujarat Police over a tweet about the Morbi bridge collapse. Narrating the turn of events that culminated in the arrest of Gokhale, party leader Derek O’Brien said that Gokhale was at the Rajasthan […]

EXC: BJP MP Sarkar backs Nisith’s claim on 40 TMC MLAs, Dola junks it

Following BJP MP Nisith Pramanik’s sensational claim that at least 40-45 Trinamool Congress MLAs were in touch with the party, his  fellow MP from Bengal Jagannath Sarkar has confirmed  to The New Indian that indeed the party has received communication from as many MLAs. However, Sarkar is cautious about indiscriminately filling up BJP ranks with […]

No violation of poll code by PM Modi, says BJP Gujarat Chief CR Patil

BJP Gujarat Chief Chandrakant Raghunath Patil rejected Congress’ claims that Prime Minister Narendra Modi conducted a “roadshow” before casting his vote in the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly polls 2022 on Monday. Explaining the circumstances under which the PM cast his votes  Patil said, “There was no roadshow. Despite security concerns, PM Modi ditched […]