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The cross-voting in the Rajya Sabha elections has exposed how fragile the opposition is
On March 2, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its first list of 195 candidates who will be contesting in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The list included the name of Bansuri Swaraj, who is the daughter of late Sushma Swaraj. Bansuri Swaraj is a lawyer and an Oxford graduate, and she will be contesting from the New Delhi constituency. If you want to know more about Bansuri Swaraj, watch the video.
The new framework for Tripura’s tribals was unveiled just as a host of contentious issues are again coming to a boil in the North-east. The central government must lend a sympathetic ear to the North-east concerns about the continuing Meitei-Kuki violence, implementation of CAA, scrapping of Free Movement Regime and the border fencing plan at the Myanmar border
Arvind Kejriwal has so far skipped multiple summonses of the Enforcement Directorate (ED), calling them illegal and asking the agency to wait as the matter was in court.
Shehbaz, 72, is locked in a one-on-one competition with Omar Ayub Khan of jailed former prime minister Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf who has been contesting from the platform of the Sunni Ittehad Council (SIC).
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh were among the BJP leaders named in the first list of 195 candidates
Thirty-four union ministers, including Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, and Smriti Irani, along with Prime Minister Narendra Modi are among the candidates the BJP has named in its first list of candidates for the upcoming polls.
Chouhan, 64, has been named as the candidate from Vidisha, the seat in Madhya Pradesh which he won five times between 1996 and 2005.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has released a list of 195 candidates ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, hoping to gain a significant first-mover advantage in its pursuit of 370 seats.
Civil Aviation Minister Scindia will contest from Guna, MoS IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar will fight from Thiruvananthapuram and Environment Minister Bhupendra Yadav will vie for the Alwar seat.
The itinerary of the trip is yet to be prepared, BJP state election co-incharge Lata Usendi said.
There was no immediate reaction from the LG's office to the chief minister's claim.
The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister is scheduled to attend a meeting of PDA "Picchda (backward classes), Dalit and Alpsankhyak (minorities)" at the party office here and has no plans to go anywhere till now, they said.
Poor strategies have led to the undoing of Congress in Himachal Pradesh and SP in UP. Congress’s failure to see the revolt from the Virbhadra family reflects poorly on the leadership. Now it is not just a Rajya Sabha seat, but its government in the hill state that is at risk. Similarly, Akhilesh’s clout has been dented by the SP cross-voting. He must mull over the consequences of the reverse consolidation against his P-D-A (Pichda, Dalit, Alpasankyak) approach
Speaking at an event in Kolkata, the finance minister said that economic mismanagement of West Bengal was driving industry out and a "nexus of corruption and syndicated crime" paralysing the state
The tribal leader from Chhota Udepur in Gujarat, Rathwa's tenure as the Rajya Sabha member will end in April this year. He was elected to the Lok Sabha five times - first in 1989, then in 1991, 1996, 1998 and 2004.
As part of the campaign, BJP president JP Nadda also flagged off video vans from the party headquarters to highlight the work done by Prime Minister Narendra Modi
A bench of justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta, without issuing notice on a plea of Kejriwal challenging a Delhi High Court order which upheld summons issued to him as an accused in the criminal defamation case, asked the complainant whether he wanted to close the matter in view of the chief minister's apology.
The government should always be there for the poor, the prime minister said, adding, "We have to create a society wherein interference from the government is minimal...I especially dislike interference in the lives of the middle class."
Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to President Droupadi Murmu on Monday, highlighting the "gross injustice" done to the youngsters seeking regular employment in the armed forces due to the "Agnipath" scheme, and urged her to ensure justice for them.
The future of nearly 2 lakh young men and women has become uncertain due to the ending of the regular recruitment process in the armed forces, Kharge said in his letter to the President.
During its huddle of election incharges and their deputies, BJP will discuss strategies that will be common practice in all states and UTs along with details of poll rallies by top guns like PM Narendra Modi, Amit Shah and JP Nadda
The Congress-SP alliance is a reprieve for the INDIA bloc after a series of debilitating jolts. The narrow social base of the alliance, absence of a caste-neutral governance programme, and the low credibility of the Akhilesh-Rahul duo are challenges to be overcome
The former BJP general secretary was reacting to queries over speculation that Kamal Nath might join his party.
