Chowkidar Campaign

Rahul Gandhi's "Chowkidar Chor Hai" campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019 discomfited many Congress veterans, Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit the party last week, said today.

Contractual teachers appointed through the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) in Assam over the years are so annoyed with State Education Minister Siddhartha Bhattacharyya that they have taken a page out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Main Bhi Chowkidar" campaign to register their protest.

Rahul Gandhi, who has led the Congress to its second straight landslide defeat in the national election, is expected to offer his resignation when the party's top leadership meets on Saturday for a detailed autopsy. The Congress has failed to touch three digits and is unlikely to qualify for the post of Leader of Opposition this time too. Prime Min...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has won a huge mandate for a second term in power, dropped the prefix "Chowkidar" from his Twitter profile today, saying it would remain an "integral part" of him.

Congress star campaigner Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday urged the voters in Indore in Madhya Pradesh to free the country from the rule of "Kale Angrez" (Black Britishers) and "chowkidars" as he took a jab at the ruling BJP.

From tweets and videos on cricket, the Twitter page of Gautam Gambhir, former left-hand opening batsman for India, is now loaded with roadshows and hashtags to campaign for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

Rahul Gandhi today admitted that he had misquoted the Supreme Court after its ruling on the Rafale fighter jet deal and said he had done it as "rhetorical flourish in the heat of political campaigning", without having seen, read or analysed the order.

The Election Commission has banned the Congress's "Chowkidar Chor Hai" ad campaign, saying while the order has come from Madhya Pradesh, it will be effective in all states. "If one state has banned it then it will not be shown in other states also," the Election Commission said in Delhi today. It is, however, possible to appeal against the decision...

BSP supremo Mayawati attacked the BJP and the opposition Congress, alleging that both the parties failed to address the problems of the weaker sections.

Vivek Oberoi, who plays Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the eponymous biopic set to hit the screens this week, wondered today whether Congress leaders asking for a court ban on the film's release in the middle of the national election campaign are "scared of the film or of the Chowkidar's danda". PM Modi, he said, is "already a hero" for crores in ...

BJP leaders and workers including Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis participated in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Main Bhi Chowkidar'' event from seven locations in the city Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today interact with people, who have pledged their support to the ''Main Bhi Chowkidar'' campaign in all parliamentary constituencies today.

The BJP has sought 10 more days to respond to a show cause notice issued to a member of its national election committee for sharing an "audio-visual advertisement" titled "main bhi chowkidar hoon" on social media, without complying with directions, the Election Commission said today.

Days after the Indian Railways was forced to withdraw tickets with photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, social media users today reported that tea was being served on a Shatabdi train in paper cups with PM Modi's campaign line, "Main Bhi Chowkidar (I'm also watchman)", printed on them.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, launching the ruling BJP's campaign for next month's national election, said at a large rally in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut that "India's 130 crore people have made up their mind, it is this government again". He also summed up the election as a fight between "this chowkidar versus daagdaar...

Rahul Gandhi's "Chowkidar Chor Hai" campaign against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2019 discomfited many Congress veterans, Ghulam Nabi Azad, who quit the party last week, said today.

Contractual teachers appointed through the Teachers Eligibility Test (TET) in Assam over the years are so annoyed with State Education Minister Siddhartha Bhattacharyya that they have taken a page out of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Main Bhi Chowkidar" campaign to register their protest.

Rahul Gandhi, who has led the Congress to its second straight landslide defeat in the national election, is expected to offer his resignation when the party's top leadership meets on Saturday for a detailed autopsy. The Congress has failed to touch three digits and is unlikely to qualify for the post of Leader of Opposition this time too. Prime Min...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who has won a huge mandate for a second term in power, dropped the prefix "Chowkidar" from his Twitter profile today, saying it would remain an "integral part" of him.

Congress star campaigner Navjot Singh Sidhu on Friday urged the voters in Indore in Madhya Pradesh to free the country from the rule of "Kale Angrez" (Black Britishers) and "chowkidars" as he took a jab at the ruling BJP.

From tweets and videos on cricket, the Twitter page of Gautam Gambhir, former left-hand opening batsman for India, is now loaded with roadshows and hashtags to campaign for the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

Rahul Gandhi today admitted that he had misquoted the Supreme Court after its ruling on the Rafale fighter jet deal and said he had done it as "rhetorical flourish in the heat of political campaigning", without having seen, read or analysed the order.

The Election Commission has banned the Congress's "Chowkidar Chor Hai" ad campaign, saying while the order has come from Madhya Pradesh, it will be effective in all states. "If one state has banned it then it will not be shown in other states also," the Election Commission said in Delhi today. It is, however, possible to appeal against the decision...

BSP supremo Mayawati attacked the BJP and the opposition Congress, alleging that both the parties failed to address the problems of the weaker sections.

Vivek Oberoi, who plays Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the eponymous biopic set to hit the screens this week, wondered today whether Congress leaders asking for a court ban on the film's release in the middle of the national election campaign are "scared of the film or of the Chowkidar's danda". PM Modi, he said, is "already a hero" for crores in ...

BJP leaders and workers including Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis participated in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "Main Bhi Chowkidar'' event from seven locations in the city Sunday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will today interact with people, who have pledged their support to the ''Main Bhi Chowkidar'' campaign in all parliamentary constituencies today.

The BJP has sought 10 more days to respond to a show cause notice issued to a member of its national election committee for sharing an "audio-visual advertisement" titled "main bhi chowkidar hoon" on social media, without complying with directions, the Election Commission said today.

Days after the Indian Railways was forced to withdraw tickets with photos of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, social media users today reported that tea was being served on a Shatabdi train in paper cups with PM Modi's campaign line, "Main Bhi Chowkidar (I'm also watchman)", printed on them.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, launching the ruling BJP's campaign for next month's national election, said at a large rally in Uttar Pradesh's Meerut that "India's 130 crore people have made up their mind, it is this government again". He also summed up the election as a fight between "this chowkidar versus daagdaar...