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Village panchayat support vital for Goa parties
In Goa, one of the most influential and powerful bodies being wooed by political parties are the local Panchayats. With land parcels in limited supply, in a tourism sector-dominated state, these bodies are required to get permits for building construction, renovation, road cutting or running a commercial venture, and...
CBI summons TMC leader in cattle smuggling case
The Central Bureau of Investigation on Thursday summoned Trinamool Congress Birbhum district president Anubrata Mondal in connection with its probe into a multi-crore cattle smuggling racket operating along the India-Bangladesh border, a source in the agency said. Mandal has been asked to depose before the CBI officials at...
Sanjay Raut claims ‘approach’ to help topple Maha govt
Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut has written a letter to Vice President M Venkaiah Naidu, claiming he was approached by certain people who asked him to assist in toppling the MVA government in Maharashtra so that the state could be forced into mid-term elections. Raut, who is the Rajya...
What parties expect from UP polls phase 1
What do the Uttar Pradesh elections hold for the fate of bigwig political parties in the state? The BJP is not holding back to win back power in the state again, which is seen as a precursor to the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Meanwhile, SP-RLD alliance and Congress are...
Jat belt in focus as fate of 9 ministers at stake
The fate of several BJP heavyweights, including ministers, will be decided when the battle for Uttar Pradesh begins on Thursday. The polling in the western part of the state is scheduled to take place in 58 assembly seats spread across 11 districts. Electoral fate of nine ministers in the...
Sugarcane, riots, exodus to decide fate in Muzzafarnagar, Kairana
Sugarcane, riots, exodus. These are just a few of the issues that will highlight the Phase-I of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections which kicked off Thursday morning, with 58 seats up for grabs in Western UP. While the fate of several BJP heavyweights, including ministers, will be decided, the...
Modi claims ‘pro-incumbency’ in all 5 poll-bound states
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will win the assembly elections with a full majority in all five poll-bound states- Punjab, Goa, Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand and Manipur. “I have seen in all states that there is the inclination towards the BJP. We will...
Hijab row sets off ripples in Madhya Pradesh, Puducherry
The controversy over the wearing of hijab (headscarves) by students crossed the state borders of Karnataka and surfaced in BJP-ruled Madhya Pradesh and Puducherry today. As the Karnataka High Court – in response to an appeal by five women students in favour of headscarves, appealed for peace — a...
Priyanka says bikini, ghoonghat or hijab is woman’s right
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday spoke up in support of college students in Karnataka who have been banned from wearing the hijab in classrooms, tweeting that the choice of what clothes to wear was theirs alone, and that this right is protected by the Constitution. “Whether it...
More ‘Vikas’ than ‘Vishwas’ in Krishna ‘Janmabhoomi’ Mathura
Thakur Sanjeev Krishna ji Maharaj, a member of Sant Samaj in Vrindavan, is thrilled that Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath has spoken about a bhavya mandir in Mathura. He says it is the “good fortune” of this generation that it is seeing grand temples built rather than destroyed....
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...
Modi launches blistering attack on Opposition
Prime Minister Narendra Modi ripped into the opposition in parliament today, accusing them of being responsible for the countrywide spread of Covid and the migrant crisis in the initial days and alleging that this was “paap (sin)”. The opposition did not do anything positive, like asking the people to...
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...
