The Indian National Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and the party’s lawmaker from Puducherry have become subject for BJP and other opposition parties with their recent controversial act.

On Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi visited flood-hit Puducherry. He was accompanied by V Narayanasamy, minister of state with the Prime Minister’s Office in the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government.

In a video, V Narayanasamy was seen holding a pair of slippers as Rahul Gandhi took off his shoes and walked barefoot in a flooded area. Then, this senior leader placed the slippers for Rahul who simply wore them without any protest. Speaking to media, Narayanasamy said that he had merely offered his own shoes.

“As a courtesy I offered my slippers as Mr Rahul Gandhi removed his shoes to walk barefoot in the water. Rahul carried his shoes throughout and he didn’t even let his security personnel carry them for him. I thought it was my responsibility that he (Rahul) has come to my state and should not get any injury. I am proud of it,” said Narayanasamy.

“He belongs to that school of thought that prioritises the dynasty. It does not believe in merit or age,” said BJP spokesperson Nalin Kohli.

The waters have receded as of now, and people are slowly attempting to return to what is left of their homes in most areas of Chennai. If further flooding does not occur, then it may be safely assumed that the city has reached the post-impact phase of the disaster.

In a flood scenario like this, a Chennai based woman doctor worked for 96 hours to help deliver 17 babies at Apollo Hospital in the city. Dr Padma Priya camped at Apollo Speciality Hospital at OMR since last Friday to facilitate healthy delivery of 13 babies.  Overall, 17 babies were delivered in the hospital during the flood time.

To overcome the challenges, consultant gynecologists and pediatricians at the hospital decided to stay at the campus to ensure that the newborns and their mothers were safe and healthy. ER and critical care surgeons worked round the clock to ensure quality medical care was provided to the patients.

“Despite financial problems owing to dysfunctional ATMs, expecting mothers and patients were given a warm welcome at the hospital and ambulances were deployed to bring in patients with emergency cases,” she said.

In a significant move that strengthen the bilateral ties between two neighbouring nations India and Sri Lanka, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government is all set to construct a bridge between two nations across Indian Ocean. The bridge is called as “Hanuman Bridge”. The Hanuman Bridge is built along the stretch of low-lying banks that connect India to Sri Lanka across the Palk Strait. The distance is estimated as 19 mile Palk Strait in the Indian Ocean.

romoting connectivity, within and across national boundaries, has been a major priority for Prime Minister Narendra Modi. His Sri Lankan counterpart, Ranil Wickremesinghe, who visited Delhi recently, is completley in favour of the  bridge. In fact, Mr Ranil had proposed the construction of a land bridge across the Palk Strait when he was PM of Sri Lanka more than a decade ago. With this, both the nations are not lookin back and going ahead on this prestigious, historic significant of building bridge.

As per Hindu Mythology, in famous Ramayana lore, the story goes that Lord Rama had built this bridge (Ram Setu) with the help of Hanuman’s army Vanaras and walked into Lanka to rescue his wife-Goddess Sita from King Ravana. Still there are evidences, traces of this bridge on the ocean. Now Modi is going to do what Lord Rama did centuries ago and with the help of Sri Lankans!

Corroborating it, BJP said in a statement, “India and Sri Lanka  plan to build a bridge across the Indian Ocean. They both are separated by the 19 mile wide Plak straits in the Ocean. This will help in developing inter connectivity and transport. The bridge is being referred as Hanuman Bridge.

The new Hanuman Bridge will improve the trade between the two countries, as well as exchange of commodities. It will also ease the lives of many Indian exporters. A reasonable fraction of India’s exports are shipped from the port  of Colombo (Sri Lanka capital) mainly due to capacity shortage and lack of infrastructure in Indian ports.”

Telugu Desam Party senior leader and MLC Rajendra Prasad turned soothsayer. In a sensational prediction, Rajendra Prasad went onto predict that AP CM Chandrababu Naidu will become Prime Minister of India by 2019. This is not all. He also added that BJP senior leader and Union Minister Venkaiah Naidu will become President of India.

Talking to media persons YVB Rajendra Prasad said, “I won’t spare if anyone talk ill about Mr Chandrababu Naidu and Mr Venkaiah Naidu. Both are legends from our state. They’ll make all Telugus proud. In 2019, Chandrababu Naidu will become Prime Minister and Venkaiah Naidu will become President. Make a note of this.”

YVB further said that YSRCP has no moral right to criticise or point fingers at both Naidus. Lashing out at YSR Congress, Rajendra Prasad described Jala Deeksha as a publicity gimmick and alleged that the party has no sincerity.

Loyal followers of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa never leave an opportunity to showcase their sycophancy towards the AIADMK Chief. After facing severe criticism for the self promotions by sticking Amma’s logos on the relief materials to the victims of Chennai floods, here’s yet another shocker from loyal Jayalalithaa admirers.

As per the reports, nine marriages which were scheduled to take place in Chennai on the 6th December were cancelled because the chief guest Jayalalithaa could not grace the event due to heavy floods. What’s even more shocking is that one of the cancelled marriages was of the Tamil Nadu state’s Minister for Tourism SP Shanmuganathan’s daughter Tamizharasi’s.

Apparently, Shanmuganathan planned to get his daughter married long back but was in a dilemma with Amma being jailed in the disproportionate assets case.

Now that Amma is back in power as the CM, Shanmuganathan finally fixed December 6 as the muhurtham for his daughter’s marriage. Apart from this high profile marriage, 8 other marriages which were supposed to take place with Amma’s blessings have also been postponed indefinitely.