political protest

Kolkata, March 21 Supporters of the BJP and TMC clashed in Baranagar in West Bengal's North 24 Parganas district on Saturday over alleged tearing of campaign posters and banners, police said.The incident took place at the Tobin Road crossing within the constituency, in the presence of BJP...

Kolkata, March 20 A group of BJP workers staged a protest outside the party's headquarters in Kolkata on Friday over the selection of certain candidates for the upcoming assembly elections.Around 50 party workers from the Beleghata area demonstrated, raising slogans and demanding the immediate...

New Delhi, March 20 The Indian Youth Congress (IYC) on Friday claimed that its members faced "harassment" in the wake of the anti-Centre AI Summit protest.The Congress youth wing also alleged that the US trade deal, which it protested against, would harm farmers, compromise national data, and...

Chennai, March 20 The Women's Wing of the SDPI strongly condemned senior AIADMK leaders C Ve Shanmugam and Dindigul C Sreenivasan on Friday for their alleged derogatory and insulting remarks directed at women, and demanded an immediate and unconditional apology from the concerned leaders.In a...

Bhubaneswar, March 19 Hundreds of women activists of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) staged a demonstration in front of the official residence of party MLA Subasini Jena on Thursday. Jena had voted in favor of the BJP-supported independent candidate, Dilip Ray, in the recent Rajya Sabha elections...

Shimla, March 19 Congress MLA Hardeep Singh Bawa demanded on Thursday that the recent increase in toll taxes in the border region be rationalized.Raising the issue during the zero hour, Bawa said that the 142 per cent increase in toll tax for four-wheelers, and 78 per cent increase on trucks...

Kolkata, March 19 The mother of the victim of the RG Kar case said on Thursday that she wants to contest the West Bengal Assembly elections as a BJP candidate, asserting that she aims to use the political route to remove the TMC government.Speaking to reporters, the deceased doctor's mother...

Shimla, March 19 BJP legislators on Thursday protested against the "illegal" felling of trees in the Shallai area of Himachal Pradesh's Sirmaur district, and said that more than 300 pine trees were cut under the administration's nose.BJP MLAs, holding placards with slogans like "Remove the...

Hazaribagh (Jharkhand), March 19 – The district administration in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, along with NTPC authorities, demolished the residence of Congress leader and former minister Yogendra Sao in the Barkagaon area on Thursday, citing encroachment on land acquired for mining.The house...

Kolkata, March 19 The mother of the victim of the RG Kar case said on Thursday that she intends to contest the West Bengal Assembly elections as a BJP candidate, asserting that her aim is to use the political route to remove the TMC government.Speaking to reporters, the mother of the deceased...

Kolkata, March 19 – Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, accused the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress government in the state of engaging in "atrocities" on Thursday.He made the accusation upon his arrival in the state's Bhabanipur constituency to...

Kolkata, March 19 Leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly, Suvendu Adhikari, launched the BJP's campaign for the high-profile Bhabanipur seat in south Kolkata on Thursday, where he is set to challenge Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.Adhikari arrived in Kolkata in the morning and...

Alappuzha (Kerala), March 18 A district Congress leader revolted in Alappuzha, the constituency represented by AICC General Secretary K.C. Venugopal, over the party's list of candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections and announced that he would contest as an independent candidate in the key...

Kolkata, March 18 Three-time Trinamool Congress MLA from Amdanga, Rafiqur Rahman, urged the party leadership on Wednesday to reconsider its decision to field a new candidate from the constituency.Protests erupted after the party announced Peerzada Kasem Siddiqui as its candidate for the seat...

Raipur, March 17 The Congress staged a large protest in Raipur on Tuesday over the replacement of MNREGA with the VB-G RAM G scheme, the 'shortage' of LPG cylinders, and foreign policy, but the police thwarted their attempt to surround the Chhattisgarh legislative assembly.The assembly's...

Kaliganj, March 17 A group of CPI(M) workers ransacked the party's own office in Kaliganj, a constituency in Nadia district of West Bengal, because they were unhappy with the candidate selected by the leadership for the area.CPI(M) sources said that a group of party workers stormed the local...

Chennai, March 17 The opposition AIADMK and its allies staged protests across Tamil Nadu on Tuesday, condemning the DMK government for the alleged deterioration of law and order in the state.AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami, who heads the NDA in the state, led the state-wide...

Chennai, March 17 AIADMK MP C Ve Shanmugam sparked controversy on Tuesday by making remarks about actress Nayanthara while ridiculing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin's "Tell us your dream" initiative, leading to backlash from various groups.While participating in the party's protest...

New Delhi, March 17 Congress parliamentary party chairperson Sonia Gandhi responded to former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda on Tuesday, acknowledging his concerns about disruptions within Parliament and protests by her party's members outside, and stating that his observations had been noted...

Chennai, March 17 AIADMK MP C Ve Shanmugam sparked controversy on Tuesday by making a remark about actress Nayanthara while ridiculing Tamil Nadu Chief Minister M K Stalin's initiative of "Tell us your dream," leading to a backlash from various groups.While participating in the party's protest...