Prime Minister Narendra Modi today addressed a thanksgiving convention at Talkatora stadium organised by traders supporting the BJP to express "gratitude" for various measures promised in the party manifesto for the Lok Sabha polls.
Congress spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi formally joined the Shiv Sena in the presence of party chief Uddhav Thackeray today. She, launched a scathing attack on the Congress, accusing it of not supporting her in the episode of unruly behaviour by some Congress activists. "I have served the party (Congress) for 10 years in a selfless manner without asking for anything in return. But the party chose to ignore my complaints though the matter was taken up at the topmost level," Ms Chaturvedi said. She expressed her "pain" to the Congress leadership about the reinstatement of colleagues who misbehaved with her.
Former Uttar Pradesh Chief Ministers Mayawati and Mulayam Singh Yadav shared a stage for the first time in 25 years where the BSP chief praised the Samajwadi Party founder and dubbed Prime Minister Narendra Modi as "a fake backward". Addressing a public meeting in Mainpuri, Mulayam Singh Yadav's bastion, after a 48-hour curb on her by the Election Commission ended on Thursday, Mayawati thundered: "Mulayam Singh is not a fake backward like PM Modi.