Not Modi Wave

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today led the Independence Day celebrations from the ramparts of the Red Fort in New Delhi. "Our tricolour is waving in its full glory not only in India, but in every corner of the world," the Prime Minister said.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has "without doubt" lost the moral authority to rule for not standing with people in need of medical aid during the second wave of COVID-19.

Rahul Gandhi, in one of his sharpest attacks so far on the government's handling of Covid and the deadly second surge, said today that Prime Minister Narendra Modi "was responsible for the second wave" and that he "did not understand Covid at all".

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday alleged that the shortage of medical oxygen was due to the lack of logistics to transport it, and asked why the government did not make arrangements when a second COVID-19 wave was "inevitable".

Today, as the fear of a second wave engulfs us, it seems we have learnt nothing from how the world wasted February 2020, allowed COVID-19 to spread. Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned yesterday that if we did not act fast, this time rural India could be severely hit and if that were to happen our medical system would collapse.

Asserting that unlike in 2016 there is "no Modi wave" in the Assam Assembly polls this time, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal on Sunday alleged that the BJP was attempting to polarise the Hindus by pointing at him, invoking the ''Mughals'' and portraying the Muslims as enemies, but said the ruling party will not succeed.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday deprecated the conduct of "some parties" for putting the lives of people at risk by agitating on roads ahead of a second wave of COVID-19 and said they should be asked to not play politics at this crucial juncture.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, who dismissed earlier this week that he is not in the PM race, today repeated that the BJP will come back for a second term. In 2014, there was an anti-incumbency wave against the Congress-led UPA and PM Modi gave people hope, he said.

The wave in the country is unfavourable to the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had lost credibility, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said Saturday.

There's no parallel between Indira Gandhi's wave election in 1971 and the coming Lok Sabha polls. Indira was riding on economic populism, Modi is trying to capitalise on anti-Pakistan nationalist fervour. Will war clouds on the western front help him tide over the bad news coming daily on the economic front? If he manages to pull it off, he would h...

Ahead of Lok Sabha elections in May, BJP Karnataka chief BS Yeddyurappa said today that Minister Narendra Modi's popularity has not faded and party hopes to win more than 22 seats in Karnataka. "Modi wave has not waned. There is no major agitation against his rule," he told reporters in Bengaluru.

Less than three weeks before the first wave of US sanctions against Iran kicks in, India today made it clear that its bilateral relations with Tehran stand on their own and are not influenced by its ties with any third country.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi was at the heart of the national capital at midnight to demand justice for the young girl gang-raped and killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager in Unnao. Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra Gandhi joined the protests that are seen to be an effort to put the ruling BJP at the cent...

Former Union minister P Chidambaram on Sunday joined the debate on job creation, contending in a series of tweets that India is witnessing a three-year spell of "modest, but jobless growth and the government is clueless about how to create jobs".

The two major parties in the fray, the BJP and the Congress, have been campaigning aggressively, aiming not only to retain power in their own states but also to ride an anti-incumbency wave in the other.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today led the Independence Day celebrations from the ramparts of the Red Fort in New Delhi. "Our tricolour is waving in its full glory not only in India, but in every corner of the world," the Prime Minister said.

Senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal on Friday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has "without doubt" lost the moral authority to rule for not standing with people in need of medical aid during the second wave of COVID-19.

Rahul Gandhi, in one of his sharpest attacks so far on the government's handling of Covid and the deadly second surge, said today that Prime Minister Narendra Modi "was responsible for the second wave" and that he "did not understand Covid at all".

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday alleged that the shortage of medical oxygen was due to the lack of logistics to transport it, and asked why the government did not make arrangements when a second COVID-19 wave was "inevitable".

Today, as the fear of a second wave engulfs us, it seems we have learnt nothing from how the world wasted February 2020, allowed COVID-19 to spread. Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned yesterday that if we did not act fast, this time rural India could be severely hit and if that were to happen our medical system would collapse.

Asserting that unlike in 2016 there is "no Modi wave" in the Assam Assembly polls this time, AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal on Sunday alleged that the BJP was attempting to polarise the Hindus by pointing at him, invoking the ''Mughals'' and portraying the Muslims as enemies, but said the ruling party will not succeed.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Tuesday deprecated the conduct of "some parties" for putting the lives of people at risk by agitating on roads ahead of a second wave of COVID-19 and said they should be asked to not play politics at this crucial juncture.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, who dismissed earlier this week that he is not in the PM race, today repeated that the BJP will come back for a second term. In 2014, there was an anti-incumbency wave against the Congress-led UPA and PM Modi gave people hope, he said.

The wave in the country is unfavourable to the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi had lost credibility, NCP chief Sharad Pawar said Saturday.

There's no parallel between Indira Gandhi's wave election in 1971 and the coming Lok Sabha polls. Indira was riding on economic populism, Modi is trying to capitalise on anti-Pakistan nationalist fervour. Will war clouds on the western front help him tide over the bad news coming daily on the economic front? If he manages to pull it off, he would h...

Ahead of Lok Sabha elections in May, BJP Karnataka chief BS Yeddyurappa said today that Minister Narendra Modi's popularity has not faded and party hopes to win more than 22 seats in Karnataka. "Modi wave has not waned. There is no major agitation against his rule," he told reporters in Bengaluru.

Less than three weeks before the first wave of US sanctions against Iran kicks in, India today made it clear that its bilateral relations with Tehran stand on their own and are not influenced by its ties with any third country.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi was at the heart of the national capital at midnight to demand justice for the young girl gang-raped and killed in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua and the alleged rape of a teenager in Unnao. Sonia Gandhi and daughter Priyanka Vadra Gandhi joined the protests that are seen to be an effort to put the ruling BJP at the cent...

Former Union minister P Chidambaram on Sunday joined the debate on job creation, contending in a series of tweets that India is witnessing a three-year spell of "modest, but jobless growth and the government is clueless about how to create jobs".

The two major parties in the fray, the BJP and the Congress, have been campaigning aggressively, aiming not only to retain power in their own states but also to ride an anti-incumbency wave in the other.