Politics
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...
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...
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....
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...
