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New Delhi, Feb 4: Breaking his silence over Jayanthi Natarajan's allegations against him over green clearances, Rahul Gandhi today said his communication with her was driven by his interest for the welfare of the poor and the adivasis. "I want to tell you that I have fought for the poor and the adivasis and I had told Jayanthi Natarajan that we should look into the welfare of the environment, poor

New Delhi, Feb 4: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was quick to realise an important aspect of Delhi that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) failed to notice. It was that elections in Delhi are different from that in any other state since the Capital is a city-state where people come to meet their aspirations and need development. The polls in Delhi cannot be fought merely on insinuations against opponents

New Delhi, Feb 3: The Congress Tuesday attacked the BJP for referring to northeast people as "immigrants" in its vision document, and asked if the party considers people from the region like those from other countries. The BJP, rushing to make amends, withdrew the word and stressed that the "brothers and sisters of the northeast are the pride of Delhi". The Congress' campaign chief Ajay Maken

New Delhi, Feb 03: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing his first state election defeat since taking charge last year, opinion polls show, a result that would dent his chances of consolidating power needed to speed up an economic recovery. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has ordered scores of its top national and state leaders to campaign for this weekend's high-profile election to the Delhi

New Delhi, Feb 3: Coming down hard on AAP, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the party was caught "red-handed" in receiving funds through "round-tripping" from companies which did not have any business and accused it of adopting "diversionary tactics" to deflect attention. Jaitley called the Rs 2 crore donation through cheques of Rs.50 lakh each by four companies to AAP a clear case

New Delhi, Feb 3: The BJP Tuesday released its vision document for the 2015 Delhi assembly polls, promising to address fundamental issues like power, water, hospitals and transport system in the capital. "If we want to make Delhi a smart and a world class city, we have to address the basic issues like electricity, water and transport," Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi unit chief Satish Upadhyay told

New Delhi, Feb 3: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday said it will ask the leadership of BJP and Congress to agree for a probe by a Supreme Court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the funding of all the three major parties in the Delhi polls. The party said it will write to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and BJP President Amit Shah seeking their consent for the investigation

New Delhi, Feb 3: Exuding confidence that his party will come to power in Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal today said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will reduce its Delhi CM candidate Kiran Bedi’s stature considerably, invoking former PM Manmohan Singh under Congress President Sonia Gandhi under IPA regime. He also added that BJP has pressed the ‘panic button’ and was now

New Delhi, Feb 2: Exuding confidence that his party will come to power in Delhi, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal today said the BJP has pressed the "panic button" and was now resorting to "politics of poison" to avoid a defeat. Five days ahead of the voting to the 70-member Delhi assembly, Kejriwal predicted that Congress will not win even a single seat which will obviate the need for him to take that

New Delhi, Feb 2: Aam Aadmi Party Chief Arvind Kejriwal today said that he will complain to the Election Commission against the BJP for allegedly attacking his community in an advertisement. "BJP in the past few days has been giving few advertisements personally attacking me. They attacked me and my children, I kept quiet because Anna used to say that if someone personally attacks you, you should