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Lakhimpur Kheri to dent BJP prospects
For the BJP, the Nighasan Assembly constituency that houses the Tikonia area is expected to be a mixed bag in the upcoming state elections. Following the killing of eight people, including four Sikh farmers, in the October 3 incident over the contentious farm laws, the Sikh community has allegedly...
AAP disbands Telangana panels for ‘new-generation leaders’
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday dissolved all existing committees of its Telangana unit and constituted a search committee to bring “new-generation leaders” into the party fold to expand its base in the southern state. Announcing the decision here at a press conference, AAP leader Somnath Bharti said...
UP’s Shamli panchayat decides to vote for ‘NOTA’
A panchayat of the Kashyap community said its members will not vote for any candidate in the upcoming Assembly polls as the government has not fulfilled their demand to shift 17 OBCs into the Scheduled Castes list. Members of the community said they arrived at the decision during...
Manjhi disappointed with BJP, JD-U over MLC seat sharing
Former Bihar chief minister and Hindustani Awam Morcha (HAM) supremo Jitan Ram Manjhi on Monday sounded disappointed on the issue of seat sharing in the MLC polls with the alliance partners, BJP and JD-U. “The way BJP and JD-U shared the seats among themselves and did not consider...
Priyanka claims credit for contesting all UP seats
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Monday said her party will be contesting all the 403 Assembly seats in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls after nearly three decades, terming it a “major achievement”. The Congress general secretary and the party in-charge for Uttar Pradesh also said she is...
K’taka BJP MLA asks students not to enter campus in hijab
The row over hijab in Karnataka took a new turn on Monday with BJP MLA Raghupathi Bhat saying that students who are protesting and seeking permission to wear hijab in classrooms have been told to come to the college campus only if they decide to shun the hijab. “Otherwise,...
Political future of Punjab bigwigs tied to poll outcome
Apart from being unprecedented in terms of the political combinations in the fray, the February 20 Punjab assembly polls will also determine the political futures of many of the state’s bigwigs. This election, arguably, is a battle of survival for several prominent faces of Punjab, cutting across party lines....
Economic Survey projects GDP growth at 8-8.5%
Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman tabled the Economic Survey 2022 in the Lok Sabha on Monday, January 31. It projected an 8 per cent to 8.5 per cent growth rate for the Indian economy in 2022-23 fiscal year. Indian economy is likely to witness a real GDP expansion of 9.2 per...
Shiv Sena drops Panaji candidate for Parrikar’s son
The Shiv Sena has dropped its candidate in Goa’s Panaji in favour of former Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar’s son Utpal, who is running as an independent in the February 14 state election after being passed over by the BJP. Sanjay Raut, a Shiv Sena MP, had earlier urged all...
Stormy Budget session likely with Pegasus, China dominating
The Budget session of Parliament starting Monday is likely to be stormy with opposition parties all geared up to raise the Pegasus snooping allegations, farmers’ issues and the border row with China. The session is being held in the midst of crucial assembly elections in five states, including Uttar...
Ex-UP minister Rangnath Mishra, SP MLA join BJP
Former Uttar Pradesh minister Rangnath Mishra joined the BJP here on Saturday. Mishra was the secondary education minister from 2007-2012 in the BSP government headed by Mayawati. Former Samajwadi Party MLA Manish Rawat also joined the BJP, the saffron party said. It said Rawat joined the party for reposing...
Akhilesh to file nomination from SP fortress Karhal
Samajwadi Party Chief and former UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav will be filing his nomination from Karhal assembly seat in Mainpuri on Monday. This will be his first ever assembly election; the leader has been a Member of Parliament and MLC earlier. The Karhal assembly seat, which has been...
Channi to contest from two seats
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi will contest from two seats in the state assembly elections – Bhadaur and Chamkaur Sahib. Congress on Sunday announced the CM’s candidature from the Bhadaur seat as it released its third list of eight candidates. Chamkaur Sahib is Channi’s home turf that he has...
Yogi says SP govt built Haj House, BJP Kailash Mansarovar Bhawan
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Saturday took a swipe at the Samajwadi Party, saying the previous government built a Haj House, while a Mansarovar Bhawan was constructed in Ghaziabad under the BJP’s rule. The chief minister, who was on a visit to Ghaziabad on Saturday, contrasted the...
BJP slams Akhilesh for remarks on Jinnah
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has once again called Akhilesh Yadav and his party “worshippers of Jinnah”. The remarks of Nadda and Adityanath come a day after BJP leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said the issue of farmers’ sugarcane should be raised in the elections and not...
Ex-Goa CM Rane withdraws from poll race amid family feud
Pratapsingh Rane, Goa’s longest-serving MLA and former Chief Minister, announced on Thursday that he will not run in the upcoming assembly elections amid family feuding. The former six-time Goa chief minister has never lost an election and has represented Goa’s Poriem assembly constituency since 1972, even when Goa was...
Ticket allocation puts Congress in a fix
With less than a month left for the Punjab assembly elections, the Congress is still facing challenges in the campaign trail with the announcement of candidates triggering a squabble within the state unit. The party seems to be facing a major discontent with candidates on all but nine seats....
Uttarakhand ex-Cong chief joins BJP
Former Uttarakhand Congress president Kishore Upadhyay on Thursday joined the BJP ahead of the state assembly polls. Kishore joined the BJP in the presence of Union minister and the party’s election in-charge for Uttarakhand, Pralhad Joshi and other senior leaders. According to media reports, the BJP which has not...
