Politics

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Disgruntled Navjot Singh Sidhu posts selfie with ‘old friend’ Prashant Kishor hours after poll strategist rejected Congress’ offer to join party

OpIndia Staff - 26 April, 2022

Sidhu was asked to resign from the post of Punjab Congress chief after the 2022 state assembly elections where Aam Aadmi Party won the elections.

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Sanjay Raut defends his call for burying the Ranas 20ft deep, accepts it as an open death threat: Here is what he said

OpIndia Staff - 26 April, 2022

Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut has gone on record to defend his call for burying MP Navneet Rana and MLA Ravi Rana 20 feet deep after the Hanuman Chalisa row in Mumbai.

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Poll strategist Prashant Kishor rejects Congress’ offer to join party after giving 600 slide presentation on how to revive it

OpIndia Staff - 26 April, 2022

Days after giving suggestions to Congress on how to stop itself from vanishing into oblivion, Prashant Kishor rejected party's offer to join it officially.

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Jignesh Mevani copies ‘Jhukega Nahi’ move from Jahangirpuri riot accused Ansar after being arrested again in Assam, watch

OpIndia Staff - 26 April, 2022

Jignesh Mevani was being taken by Assam Police after they re-arrested him when he made the signature move from the latest Allu Arjun blockbuster movie Pushpa.

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Bombay HC dismisses plea of MP Navneet Rana, husband MLA Ravi Rana to quash FIR in Hanuman Chalisa row

OpIndia Staff - 25 April, 2022

Bombay HC refuses to quash FIR filed against independent MP Navneet Rana and MLA Ravi Rana in Hanuman Chalisa row.

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Priyanka Gandhi sold off MF Hussain’s gift to Rajiv Gandhi: Here is her letter to the ex-CEO of Yes Bank acknowledging the payment

OpIndia Staff - 25 April, 2022

The MF Hussain painting was given to Rajiv Gandhi by the painter himself in 1985 during the centenary celebrations of Congress.

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Comedians, influencers, and ‘ideologically inclined news portals’: Digital ‘master plan’ of Prashant Kishor to push Congress to victory in 2024

Amit Kelkar - 25 April, 2022

Prashant Kishor has previously worked with Congress on the disastrous campaign in UP in 2017, and with Punjab Congress before abandoning them ahead of their electoral drubbing

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Hanuman Chalisa row: MP Navneet Rana writes a letter to Lok Sabha speaker, alleges casteist abuse by Maharashtra Police

OpIndia Staff - 25 April, 2022

Navneet Rana claimed that the cops denied her water because she belonged to the SC community

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After sending an MP and MLA to jail, MVA props NCP leader Fahmida Hasan Khan to ‘chant prayers of every religion’ outside PM residence

OpIndia Staff - 25 April, 2022

"If Hindutva, Jainism elevates for country's benefit to reduce inflation, unemployment, starvation, I'd like to do it," NCP leader Fahmida Khan said while talking to the media.

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