Modi Tea Party

Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule's "take journalists to drink tea... you know what I mean" diktat to party workers - to persuade them not to file reports critical of Prime Minister Modi, or the BJP, ahead of next year's election.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray today invoked the "tea-seller" background of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to slam the opposition BJP which boycotted the customary tea party hosted by the government on the eve of the winter session of the state legislature.

A cup of tea has caused a storm in Bihar, where state elections are due next year.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi ripped into the Congress and its Nehru-Gandhi legacy today over the party's comment that a "tea seller" could have the country's top job was owing to the foundation laid by Jawaharlal Nehru.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has requested the Congress "not to mock my poor origins," extending his scathing attack on the opposition party and its leader Rahul Gandhi from one rally in Gujarat to another, as he begins a campaign blitz his home state, which votes early next month for a new government.

After a derogatory "chai-wala" meme tweeted by Congress' youth wing mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi was heavily criticised by the BJP, the ruling party's leaders, including chief Amit Shah, today tuned in to the PM's monthly radio programme "Mann ki Baat" over cups of tea in poll-bound Gujarat. A dozen-odd union ministers, BJP fu...

He may be a strident critic of Narendra Modi but Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan says he shares many of his qualities like "making tea", "dressing properly" and "playing drums" and is a "fit candidate" for prime minister.

Smriti Irani's transfer from the prestigious Education ministry to the low-profile Textile department became the main headline of Tuesday night's big cabinet reshuffle, but the exit of Jayant Sinha, an IIT graduate and Harvard MBA, from the Finance Ministry too is seen as a major development.

Smriti Irani's shift to the Textiles Ministry is a reprimand, top sources have confirmed, as is Jayant Sinha's new posting as minister of state for civil aviation. Mr Sinha was junior minister in the Finance Ministry till Tuesday's mega cabinet reshuffle.

After landing in Dibrugarh, hometown of the party's chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a petrochemical project built at a cost of Rs. 9,250 crore. He will address a rally in the tea garden belt in Moran, about 40 kilometres from Dibrugarh.

The Congress is still waiting for the government to respond to its objections to the Goods and Services Tax, which its president Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh conveyed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues over tea, last week, party sources told NDTV.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has over the last five months shown remarkable ability to work quickly towards building or demolishing perceptions about him or his government.

Over tea on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked some 400 parliamentarians of his BJP and allies to rise above politics and remind people that the government was with the economically deprived.

Those observing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tea party with NDA parliamentarians this evening for signs of a re-union with Shiv Sena for the government formation in Maharashtra, were in for a disappointment. On menu were the government's policies and priorities and the strategy for the upcoming Winter Session of Parliament.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's high tea this evening is being keenly watched for signs of a re-union with Shiv Sena for the government formation in Maharashtra. But the guest list also indicates that the NDA will be getting ready for the Winter Session of Parliament.

Maharashtra BJP chief Chandrashekhar Bawankule's "take journalists to drink tea... you know what I mean" diktat to party workers - to persuade them not to file reports critical of Prime Minister Modi, or the BJP, ahead of next year's election.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray today invoked the "tea-seller" background of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to slam the opposition BJP which boycotted the customary tea party hosted by the government on the eve of the winter session of the state legislature.

A cup of tea has caused a storm in Bihar, where state elections are due next year.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi ripped into the Congress and its Nehru-Gandhi legacy today over the party's comment that a "tea seller" could have the country's top job was owing to the foundation laid by Jawaharlal Nehru.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has requested the Congress "not to mock my poor origins," extending his scathing attack on the opposition party and its leader Rahul Gandhi from one rally in Gujarat to another, as he begins a campaign blitz his home state, which votes early next month for a new government.

After a derogatory "chai-wala" meme tweeted by Congress' youth wing mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi was heavily criticised by the BJP, the ruling party's leaders, including chief Amit Shah, today tuned in to the PM's monthly radio programme "Mann ki Baat" over cups of tea in poll-bound Gujarat. A dozen-odd union ministers, BJP fu...

He may be a strident critic of Narendra Modi but Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan says he shares many of his qualities like "making tea", "dressing properly" and "playing drums" and is a "fit candidate" for prime minister.

Smriti Irani's transfer from the prestigious Education ministry to the low-profile Textile department became the main headline of Tuesday night's big cabinet reshuffle, but the exit of Jayant Sinha, an IIT graduate and Harvard MBA, from the Finance Ministry too is seen as a major development.

Smriti Irani's shift to the Textiles Ministry is a reprimand, top sources have confirmed, as is Jayant Sinha's new posting as minister of state for civil aviation. Mr Sinha was junior minister in the Finance Ministry till Tuesday's mega cabinet reshuffle.

After landing in Dibrugarh, hometown of the party's chief ministerial candidate Sarbananda Sonowal, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate a petrochemical project built at a cost of Rs. 9,250 crore. He will address a rally in the tea garden belt in Moran, about 40 kilometres from Dibrugarh.

The Congress is still waiting for the government to respond to its objections to the Goods and Services Tax, which its president Sonia Gandhi and former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh conveyed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his colleagues over tea, last week, party sources told NDTV.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has over the last five months shown remarkable ability to work quickly towards building or demolishing perceptions about him or his government.

Over tea on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi asked some 400 parliamentarians of his BJP and allies to rise above politics and remind people that the government was with the economically deprived.

Those observing Prime Minister Narendra Modi's tea party with NDA parliamentarians this evening for signs of a re-union with Shiv Sena for the government formation in Maharashtra, were in for a disappointment. On menu were the government's policies and priorities and the strategy for the upcoming Winter Session of Parliament.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's high tea this evening is being keenly watched for signs of a re-union with Shiv Sena for the government formation in Maharashtra. But the guest list also indicates that the NDA will be getting ready for the Winter Session of Parliament.