Politics
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...
Bhim Army chief says 1971 will be repeated in Gorakhpur
Undaunted by the prospect of taking on Yogi Adiyanath in his stronghold, Azad Samaj Party president Chandra Shekhar Aazad says the people of Gorakhpur will repeat the history of 1971 when a chief minister of Uttar Pradesh lost elections from the assembly constituency. Confident that victory will be his,...
Punjab Cong leaders upset over denial of ticket
A day after the Congress released its second list of 23 candidates for the Punjab Assembly polls, several aspirants on Wednesday expressed their discontent over the denial of tickets. They included former minister Jagmohan Singh Kang, sitting MLA Amrik Singh Dhillon, Daaman Bajwa and Satwinder Bitti. The Congress on...
Centre may agree to remove Nagaland special powers to forces
The Centre is considering Nagaland’s demand of removal of AFSPA from the state, Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio said on Wednesday, expressing hope for a “positive decision”. Addressing the Republic Day function at the Civil Secretariat here, Rio said the Special Investigation Team (SIT) formed to probe the killing of...
RLD chief snubs BJP offer of alliance in UP
Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) chief Jayant Choudhary on Wednesday rebuffed the BJP’s offer to join hands with it ahead of the Uttar Pradesh elections. Taking to social media, Choudhary lambasted the BJP over the deaths of farmers agitating against the now-repealed farm laws. “Don’t send the invitation to me,...
More Cong heavyweights seen set to switch to BJP
In yet another blow for the Congress, which is struggling to keep its house in order ahead of assembly elections, Congress heavyweight and former minister RPN Singh may soon be switching over to the BJP, sources have told News18. Singh, the party’s Jharkhand in-charge, has off late been sidelined...
Bengal BJP feud intensifies further
The ongoing feud in West Bengal BJP intensified on Monday after it suspended its senior leaders Ritesh Tiwari and Jaiprakash Majumdar, who were earlier show caused, for violating the party discipline. A statement issued by the West Bengal BJP unit said Tiwari and Majumdar have been “temporarily suspended” till...
More Muslims in SP’s phase 2 list
After giving tickets to 13 Muslims in Phase 1 seats in Uttar Pradesh elections 2022, the Samajwadi Party-RLD alliance has ‘silently’ allotted at least 10 more tickets to Muslims for Phase 2 of the polls, but has not officially declared them. Party sources said more Muslims could be allotted...
Yogi deputy says Cong, SP, BSP together won’t get 100 seats
Rival parties, including Congress, Samajwadi Party, and Bahujan Samaj Party, will not be able to get 100 seats together in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh polls, BJP leader Dinesh Sharma on Sunday said. Sharma, the deputy chief minister of UP, said the BJP is fighting the election on development issue...
Yogi, Mayawati lock horns over Gorakhpur monastery
Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath and BSP chief Mayawati locked horns on Twitter on Sunday, with the bitter exchange bordering on personal attacks. While it was the former chief minister who launched an attack on Adityanath’s Gorakhpur monastery, the CM’s Twitter handle for his official website left no...
Ex- Cong MLA challenges Priyanka for direct fight
Months after walking out of the Congress, former Raebareli (Sadar) MLA Aditi Singh is contesting again from the prestigious seat, this time on a BJP ticket, and has dared Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to contest from the seat too. The Rae Bareli assembly seat is part of the Rae Bareli...
Owaisi promises two chief ministers if party wins
The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) led by Asaduddin Owaisi, has launched a new front, Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha, comprising parties with a support base among Muslims, Other Backward Classes (OBCs) and Dalits for the upcoming Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. According to Owaisi, if the Bhagidari Parivartan Morcha wins...
