A video of Lonikar's controversial remarks surfaced on social media on Thursday and invited strong criticism from the opposition.
'To identify with the common man, Modi had to look like one.' 'The disastrous suit with his name written on it never made its reappearance.' 'Frequent dress changes during the day, which led Arvind Kejriwal to calculate that Modi spent crores on his attire ever year, too stopped.' 'Instead, a newer Modi emerged: Humble and eager to serve.' Narendra Modi has cleverly repositioned himself as a man of the masses in the past three years, says Aditi Phadnis.
'The country that came into existence after Partition lives on hatred for India. It only wants to harm Bharat. However, India's goals are to remove poverty, bring about economic development and become a developed nation'
"Will anybody want a servant that who is on vacation when needed at home? And nobody knows where he is," he continued.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in his second 'Mann ki Baat' radio address to the nation on Sunday, said as far as the issue of black money was concerned, he would work to ensure that every single penny was returned back to the country.
Dominic Xavier offers his take on these quaint developments.
A large-scale effigy of Santa Claus created by artisans in Kolkata with thermocol ahead of Christmas.
The Pradhan Sevak will be in Maximum City on Thursday, January 19, to inaugurate a couple of Metro projects, so Maharashtra CM Eknath Shambhaji Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Ganghadharrao Fadnavis have got cracking.
Janardan Choudhary, a key advisor to Adani Green Energy Limited (AGEL), was named as one of the seven non-institutional members by the Union Environment Ministry when it reconstituted the Expert Appraisal Committee for hydroelectricity and river valley projects in September.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday declared that he would like to run the country on the basis of consensus and not on majority in Parliament and called for a 10-year moratorium on caste and communal violence.
With Malayalis immune to Modi's charms, the Pradhan Sevak must be quite unhappy today, surmises Dominic Xavier.
Uttam Ghosh offers his take on Sunday's event where millions of Indians lit diya
Uttam Ghosh reacts to the pradhan sevak's election-space-missile continuum declaration.
All the real and imagined achievements of the Modi government's first year in power during its second term in power has been dwarfed by the worst human crisis India has seen in 70 years.
Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the 'tukde tukde gang', a slur often used by Bharatiya Janata Party leaders to attack JNU students and Left leaders.
A Mercedes-Maybach S650 Guard was recently added to the prime minister's cavalcade by the Special Protection Group.
Uttam Ghosh offers his take on this unique Indian tragedy.
In the prevailing difficult circumstances, the Congress is the only party that can provide capable and decisive leadership to the country, Kharge asserted.
Dominic Xavier surveys the deluge of prime ministerial promises and wonders how many of them will be around a couple of years from now.
Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the Delhi police's brutal assault on students at the Jamia Millia university library on Sunday, December 15, a shameful act that will not be forgotten for a long, long, time.
The 'pradhan sevak' is a crorepati, with no car and has only four gold rings in his name.
Uttam Ghosh's take on the mood in the prime ministerial residence after the 2018 election verdict.
Are these tableaus meant to clearly convey the message that Amitbhai -- and and not anyone else -- will be Narendrabhai's successor if the Pradhan Sevak ever decided to retire either as prime minister (if he wins the next general election, that is) or as BJP supremo?
Uttam Ghosh offers his take on the Kerala floods and the Centre's relief response.
Modi will coincide with the 7 phases of the 2019 Lok Sabha election.
If Putin can have a calendar, why can't our dear Pradhan Sevak have one too?
Some of our leaders were busybusy over the weekend.
Clearly, Modi -- one of the most stylish leaders on the planet -- hasn't had his barber call at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg.
At the rally in Shimla's Ridge Maidan to mark the eighth anniversary of becoming prime minister, Modi said, "Now our borders are more secure than they were before 2014."
Why did NaMo skip the celebrations?
Here's a collection of quotes from Prime Minister Narendra Modi's maiden Independence Day speech from the ramparts of the Red Fort
Baywatch's villain meets India's Pradhan Sevak in an alien land.
The Narendra Modi government on Thusday released the 2017 government calendar. The calendar comes with a theme for every month and has Prime Minister Narendra Modi featured from start to end.
We ask you to rate the pradhan sevak and his ministers on four criteria: Vision. Execution. Efficiency. And their response to the public.
The BJP is raising funds by selling NaMo Again T-shirts, mugs and wristbands through the Modi smartphone app.
What if the Pradhan Sevak was at the cine carnival on the French Riviera? Uttam Ghosh lets his imagination run loose...
Akki's new film will likely be tax free in BJP-ruled states.
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