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TMC says open to post-poll alliance with Congress in Goa
As the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) is all set to make its electoral debut in Goa elections this year, senior leader and Rajya Sabha MP Luizinho Faleiro has said the TMC is “definitely” open to having an alliance with the Congress and other “like-minded secular parties”. Faleiro, a...
PM speech stirs Twitter spat; Kejriwal says ‘rehne do’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Parliament speech on Monday sparked a bitter Twitter exchange between Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Uttar Pradesh counterpart Yogi Adityanath after the former rebutted the PM’s claim on Delhi and Maharashtra pushing out migrants during the second Covid-19 wave. Reacting to PM Modi’s...
Dissident BJP MLAs join Congress
Dissident BJP MLAs Sudip Roy Barman, and Asish Saha, who had resigned from the saffron party earlier, joined the Congress party in Delhi today. Barman had been keeping in touch with the Congress high command for the last four months and finally he decided to join the party. “This...
Channi nomination fails to douse Punjab dalit fire
At a small village near Jalandhar in Punjab’s Doaba region, which is separated from Malwa by river, an uncertain voter quips Charanjit Singh Channi as Congress’ Dalit chief ministerial face in Punjab is “good optics”. Manjit Singh from Alladinpur village says, “We have always been given an impression that...
Kejriwal spells 11-point agenda for poll-bound Uttarakhand
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday spelt his party’s 11-point agenda for Uttarakhand if voted to power, promising to end corruption and giving free quality education and medical treatment to all. Accusing successive Congress and BJP governments in Uttarakhand of “looting” the state, he said his Aam...
Mamata-Akhilesh presser signals new Oppn bloc
West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee will also get in on the action of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections slated to be held soon. She will hold a press conference with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Tuesday, and make an appeal to the people...
Channi to campaign for Cong in UP
Along with campaigning for poll-bound Punjab, chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi may also campaign for the party in Uttar Pradesh, sources said. They added that Channi may visit Varanasi and adjoining areas either on the occasion of Ravidas Jayanti, February 16 or post-February 20. The grand old party...
Yogi targets Samajwadi Party in Mathura
Mathura, Feb 6: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday attacked the Samajwadi Party (SP), saying while it was in power, money meant for widow pension or the differently abled was distributed among its office bearers. He blamed the riots in Kosi Kalan, disturbances in Agra and Bulandshahr,...
Roadshow, vehicle rallies ban stays; meeting curbs eased
The Election Commission on Sunday extended ban on roadshows, ‘pad yatras’, cycle and vehicle rallies but relaxed norms for indoor and outdoor political meets for polls. In a statement, the EC said restrictions regarding outdoor meetings, indoor meetings, rallies will be further relaxed subject to condition that the number...
Sidhu calls Rahul Gandhi ‘leading light’
Ahead of senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi’s announcement of the party’s chief ministerial candidate for the Punjab Assembly polls, state party chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Sunday said everybody will abide by his decision. Gandhi will be visiting Ludhiana on Sunday to hold a virtual rally and announce...
Farmers, jobs, abandoned cattle in BJP manifesto
A comprehensive policy on managing and monitoring cattle that cause damage to crops, employment opportunities and a better future for farmers: the BJP is likely to focus on these issues in their ‘Sankalp Patra’, with four days left for the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. Union...
TMC goes back on ‘one man, one post’ policy after trouble
Confusion is aplomb in the Trinamool Congress after the party on Friday released its candidature list for 108 Kolkata municipalities on Friday, which go to polls on February 27. According to Party General Secretary Partha Chatterjee, MLAs and members from families involved in the party have not received...
Yogi says Jayant Chaudhary a good person in bad company
RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary might be a good person but he is in the wrong alliance, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said in an exclusive interview with Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi on Friday. “Chaudhary Charan Singh was a respectable leader. Everyone knows RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary never...
Channi’s nephew arrested in illegal sand mining case
The Enforcement Directorate today arrested Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew Bhupinder Singh alias Honey in a 2018 illegal sand mining case. A lot of politics is being carried out in the name of sand in Punjab recently, which goes to assembly elections soon. The Aam Aadmi Party...
Rahul launches Rs 6K aid scheme for landless in C’garh
Chhattisgarh on Wednesday became the first State in the country to launch a financial assistance scheme –Rajiv Gandhi Bhumiheen Krishi Mazdoor Nyay Yojana, for the landless agri labourers. Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during a visit to the State launched the scheme which provisions payment of Rs 6,000 per...
SC sets aside HC order for attaching Future, Biyani assets
In a relief for Kishore Biyani-led Future Group, the Supreme Court on Tuesday set aside Delhi High Court order declining stay on an arbitration tribunal decision refusing to interfere with the Emergency Award (EA) of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) in favour of Amazon. The top court said...
SP leads in candidates with criminal cases, 38 illiterates also in fray
As many as 156 candidates contesting in the first phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections 2022 have declared criminal cases against themselves, of whom 121 are facing serious charges, a report by Uttar Pradesh Election Watch and Association for Democratic Reforms has said. The report has analysed self-sworn affidavits...
AAP CM face says Channi will lose in both seats
Punjab chief minister (CM) Charanjit Singh Channi is fighting the elections from two seats as he is scared, and he will lose from both Chamkaur Sahib and Bhadaur, Aam Aadmi Party’s CM face Bhagwant Mann told CNN-News18 in an exclusive interview in Dhuri on Wednesday. “Meanwhile, I have a...
