Politics
Cong to wait to declare Punjab CM face till elections
Navjot Singh Sidhu’s impending appointment as the President of the Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) could mean he could be the next chief minister of the state if Congress wins in 2022 and a majority of the MLAs support him, as was the precedent earlier in Punjab, Madhya Pradesh...
Mamata’s Delhi trip could be part of Prashant Kishor’s strategy
On March 23, 2019 — ahead of the Lok Sabha Polls — Congress president Rahul Gandhi compared Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee with BJP’s Narendra Modi. This happened two months after when his mother and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi extended support to Banerjee’s mega ‘Mahagathbandhan’ (Grand Alliance) rally...
Two Maharajas on sale, says Chhattisgarh CM Baghel
Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently expanded his Cabinet and included many new faces including Rajya Sabha MP Jyotiraditya Scindia. Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel attacked Scindia for being made the Union Civil Aviation Minister. Baghel said that the logo of Air India is Maharaja and Scindia is from the...
Arunachal parties write to President over dispute with Assam
Four opposition parties in Arunachal Pradesh, including the Congress, have written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking his intervention in resolving the boundary dispute between the state and neighbouring Assam, after a recent controversy over Kimin area along the interstate border. In a memorandum to Rashtrapati Bhavan on Wednesday,...
Population control debate exposes Bihar fault lines
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s apparent distaste for enforcing population control through legal means, in the face of his ally BJP coming out in support of such coercive measures, has once again exposed the ideological fault lines within the ruling coalition here. Kumar had voiced his disapproval of adopting...
TMC raps EC for by-elections delay
Voicing displeasure over the “delay” in holding elections to seven West Bengal assembly seats, crucial for Mamata Banerjee’s uninterrupted continuance as the chief minister, the TMC said on Wednesday a party delegation will meet the Election Commission on July 15 to press for it. Sukhendu Shekhar Ray, a senior...
Rajasthan minister endorses UP, Assam population law
Extending support for the population control law proposed by BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh and Assam, a minister in the Rajasthan Congress government said it is time that India starts thinking about controlling its population. Talking to ANI, Rajasthan Health Minister Raghu Sharma said “Growing population is a problem. The country...
Prashant Kishor, Gandhis discuss 2024 elections
Political strategist Prashant Kishor on Tuesday met not just the Gandhi siblings — Rahul and Priyanka — but also Sonia Gandhi, sparking buzz of a strategy in the works to halt the BJP juggernaut in the 2024 elections. There was speculation that the meeting at Rahul Gandhi’s residence was...
Kejriwal to promise 300 units of free power to Goans
After kicking-off the election campaign in Punjab and Uttarakhand, Aam Aadmi Party chief (AAP) Arvind Kejriwal is in Goa on Wednesday where he is expected to announce 300 units of free electricity to the people of the state as a pre-poll promise. Kejriwal, who landed in Goa at 2:45pm...
8 BJP MLAs quit assembly panels over Mukul Roy as PAC Chief
The standoff between the ruling Trinamool Congress and BJP continued after eight MLAs from the opposition party resigned from the post of chairman of eight committees of West Bengal Assembly over Mukul Roy’s appointment as the chairperson of Public Accounts Committee (PAC) by Speaker Biman Banerjee. Those who tendered...
Nitish Kumar opposes Yogi’s population control bill
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar has said proper education and awareness among women was crucial to control the population explosion and merely framing a law would not serve any purpose. The statement from the BJP’s Bihar ally comes amid Uttar Pradesh’s attempts to “regulate” population growth with a draft...
AIADMK to boycott ‘upsetting’ TV debates
Party members and spokespersons of the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) will boycott television debates since these are allegedly defaming the party and bringing a stain to its leaders, the party said on Monday. In a joint statement by AIADMK coordinator O Panneerselvam and coordinator Edappadi K...
New judge assigned to hear Mamata poll petition
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s election petition before the Calcutta High Court challenging BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari’s victory from Nandigram constituency in the assembly elections has been assigned to the bench of Justice Shampa Sarkar, court sources said here on Monday. The matter is likely to be listed...
Mayawati joins Akhilesh in questioning UP terror arrests
After Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, BSP supremo Mayawati also raised questions on Monday on the Uttar Pradesh police’s claim of arresting two Al Qaeda-linked terrorists in the state capital, saying such an action ahead of assembly polls leads to doubts in the minds of people. If the UP...
Monsoon session of Parliament from next week
ad_1] The monsoon session of Parliament is set to begin on July 19 and continue till August 13 with a total of 19 days of business. Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla on Monday reviewed the preparation ahead of the start of the monsoon session. The last three sessions were...
Amit Shah says ministry to empower cooperatives
The government is determined to make cooperatives and all cooperative institutions more empowered, Union minister Amit Shah, who met some leading figures of the country’s cooperative sector on Saturday, said. The meeting came three days after Prime Minister Narendra Modi reallocated the portfolios of his ministers in which Shah...
Prashant Kishor, Mamata 3-hour meeting ahead of TMC overhaul
Political strategist Prashant Kishore met with West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in Kolkata on Friday, amid the workings of a big organisational haul in the Trinamool Congress. The meeting, which lasted for over three hours, ‘is very significant’, said a party insider. After the TMC’s victory in the...
Gorkha faction presses for permanent solution in hill areas
The Gorkha Janmukthi Morcha of Bimal Gurung faction met Trinamool Congress’ all India general secretary and MP Abhishek Banerjee on Thursday in Kolkata. Roshan Giri met Abhishek along with another leader Dr RB Bhujel. Roshan said that they are in Kolkata to meet leaders and ministers of different departments...
