Speaking at an event organised by the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh's communication wing Indraprastha Vishwa Samvad Kendra (IVSK) on Saturday, Vaidya said that various news publications have described the result of Lok Sabha election as the victory of nationalism instead of national expression.
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, Rahul Gandhi won from Wayanad by a margin of over 4.31 lakh votes, a state record, even as he lost Congress stronghold Amethi in Uttar Pradesh to BJP's Smriti Irani.
Amethi district Congress chief Yogendra Misra also supported the charge that the SP and BSP did not cooperate with the Congress even though their leaders had announced support for Rahul Gandhi.
Mayawati has also chosen not to start criticizing Prime Minister Narendra Modi at this point. She has adopted a wait-and-watch policy though she will not be attending the swearing-in ceremony of Modi and his cabinet on Thursday evening.
Navneet Kaur R. Rana, who has worked in Telugu and Punjabi films, is the only actress to be elected MP from Maharashtra in the May 2019 elections.
Rahul Gandhi's dog Pidi gained fame on Twitter in 2017 after Gandhi posted a video of his pet, which was meant to be a sarcastic hit back at detractors who suggested that someone else was tweeting for the Congress vice president.
Party sources say Rahul Gandhi was instrumental in making Pilot as the state Congress chief in 2014. After the Assembly polls late last year, Pilot was made Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's deputy. With Congress chief himself mulling over his resignation, Pilot's future hangs in the balance, sources said.
Congress President Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have told leaders at the Congress Working Committee meeting on Saturday that he was ready to carry the ideological battle against the BJP-RSS but does not want to be bogged down by routine matters and they should chose a new party chief from outside the Nehru-Gandhi family.
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A senior CPI(M) Politburo member said that the party was reclaiming its offices because it was the first time since 2011 that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's TMC was "weak and vulnerable".
While the video has been widely shared and viewed on social media as well as messaging platforms like WhatsApp, the truth is that the incident did take place but the “millionaire” here is not an Indian but an American rapper.
Petrol and diesel prices started rising soon after the last phase of the general election concluded, and have increased by 70-80 paisa per litre in the past nine days.
Two TMC MLAs and one CPM MLA from West Bengal join BJP at party headquarters in Delhi. More than 50 Councillors also join BJP
RJD's senior party leader Raghuvansh Prasad Singh calls Tejashwi Yadav an 'immature' leader
Lalu Prasad said that if the Congress appointed a non-Gandhi as its president, it would be accused of being a Gandhi family "puppet".
At least four MLAs and a host of municipal councilors are set to join the BJP on Tuesday afternoon.
The list also includes former union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and celebrities from sports to film fraternity like Sunny Deol, Ravi Kishan, Gautam Gambhir, and Hans Raj Hans.
Compared to the 26 MPs in 2014 who had assets worth over Rs 1 crore, 31 out of the 42 MPs in 2019 are crorepatis, according to an analysis by the West Bengal Election Watch and the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR).
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The BJP has secured 303 seats, which is 22 more than the party got in the 2014 elections. Along with its allies, the NDA took its tally up to 352 in the 17th Lok Sabha.
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