The bandh call stands in continuity of a number of moves showing that the Punjab stands against Modi-Shah's Hindutva moves.
SAD (Badal) and BJP- the long-term political allies are presently not at good terms. The BJP leaders in Punjab have started expressing themselves openly that the BJP should not accept subordinate position in its' alliance with SAD (B) in Punjab anymore.
As per reports in Indian Media, Pinky Chaudhary, president of 'Hindu Raksha Dal' has claimed the responsibility of Sunday's attack on students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).
As per reports emanating from New Delhi, the Delhi police has registered an FIR against Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union (JNUSU) president Aishe Ghosh and 19 others for allegedly attacking security guards.
Local leaders of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) today submitted a memorandum to local administration in Sangrur demanding ban on the visit of Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Umar Khalid to Malerkotla.
The Uttar Pradesh police have registered a case against 55 Sikhs for carrying out a Nagar Kirtan from Kiratpur Gurdwara Sahib in Pilibhit district of the state ruled by Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). The Nagar Kirtan was being carried out while commemorating the martyrdom of Sahibzadey (sons of Guru Gobind Singh Ji).
The Editors Guild of India slammed the ‘poll’ run by the BJP’s IT cell head Amit Malviya on Friday, which asked if journalist and anchor Rajdeep Sardesai “should handle PR for ISIS.”
To pay glowing tributes to Mata Gujri and younger sons (Sahibzade's) of Tenth Sikh Guru- Guru Gobind Singh, the Shriomani Akali Dal (Amritsar) held a conference in which representatives of Dal Khalsa also participated. The speakers eulogized the supreme sacrifices of Sahibzade Fateh Singh and Zorawar Singh to uphold the truth, righteousness and principles of religion.
The state of Uttar Pradesh (UP) is facing biggest police crackdown since Muzaffar Nagar violence of 2013. The UP police on Thursday (Dec. 26) said that it has arrested 1,113 people while placing another 5,558 in preventive detention. The police said that it has registered 327 cases so far.
India’s Union Minister Giriraj Singh Thursday (Dec. 26) said Rahul Gandhi, along with the tukde-tukde gang and AIMIM chief Asaddudin Owaisi were trying to divide the country.
The BJP Tuesday stoked a controversy by tweeting about Dravidian ideologue E.V. Ramasamy, popularly known as Periyar, on his 46th death anniversary.
As per media reports BJP MP Pragya Singh Thakur is nominated to a parliamentary consultative committee on defence. Notably, Pragya Thakur is an accused in the 2008 Malegaon bomb blast case of Maharashtra. She will be part of the 21-member committee headed by Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, according to a bulletin issued by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
mid the ongoing tussle between the BJP and the Shiv Sena over government formation in the state, Devendra Fadnavis on Friday resigned as chief minister. He submitted his resignation to Governor BS Koshyari at the Raj Bhawan in Mumbai.
The Supreme Court of India (SCI) today set aside the clean chits given by trial court and the Bombay high court to Maharashtra chief minister and BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis in the case of filing alleged false election affidavit, thus paving the way for his trial.
AMRITSAR: Rift emerged between the Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) and Bhartya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday (September 26, 2019) finally with former’s MLA Balkaur Singh’s ...
Bhartiya Janta Party leader and Member of Indian Parliament for Rajya Sabha Subramanian Swamy has come under fire for asking the Government to India to backtrack from Kartarpur Sahib corridor. Subramanian Swamy on Saturday (August 25) demanded that the work on the Kartarpur corridor be immediately stopped.
The manner and intent of Indian Establishment in sending of the Indian army to the Darbar Sahib Complex in Amritsar on 3 June 1984 and degradation in the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir on 5 August (2019) bear a lot of similarities. Both actions were sudden and unexpected carried with excessive use of the armed forces. These two events were concerted swoops intended to shock and bamboozle the targeted people of Punjab and Kashmir, thereby, rendering them numb and reactionless.
Sunita Singh Gaur of Ramkola, Uttar Pradesh, India secured for herself a place in history when she soared to international infamy after an explicit social media summons for “Hindu brothers” to gangrape Muslim “mothers and sisters”.
A latest report by US Commission on International Religious Freedom noted that in 2018 religious freedom conditions in India continued a downward trend. The 2019 report released few days back notes that religious freedom has come under attack in recent years with the growth of exclusionary extremist narratives—including, at times, the government’s allowance and encouragement of mob violence against religious minorities—that have facilitated an egregious and ongoing campaign of violence, intimidation, and harassment against non-Hindu and lower-caste Hindu minorities.
The counting of votes for Lok Sabha elections 2019 was held in Punjab yesterday. Congress won 8 seats, Shiromani Akali Dal (Badal) and its ally Bhartiya Janta Party bagged 2 seats each while the Aam Aadmi Party manage to save 1 seat.
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