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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...
Congress targets Modi govt after NYT report on Pegasus
The Congress on Saturday attacked the Centre over a New York Times report which claimed that the Indian government bought the Pegasus spy toll in 2017 as part of a deal with Israel, saying illegal snooping using the spyware amounts to “treason”. According to the report in The New...
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...
Akhilesh alleges BJP bid to disrupt his campaigning
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav Friday, after alleging that his chopper was halted by the BJP to stop him from campaigning, hit out at the BJP for not fulfilling their promises of doubling farmers’ incomes, providing jobs to the youth and cracking down on farmers. On a bus...
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...
Raj Babbar’s tweets fuel talk of switch to SP
The Congress may be staring at another big exit in Uttar Pradesh with Raj Babbar giving off worrying signals. Raj Babbar’s recent tweets have been divergent from the party line and he has not bothered to clarify. When a Padma Bhushan award for Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad provoked...
Air India Tata transaction extremely challenging, says Scindia
Air India had to be sold because debt had been piling up to a point where it could no longer be sustained by the government, Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia told NDTV today, a day after Tata group formally took over the airline. “It was just not possible,”...
Supreme Court strikes down suspension of 12 Maharashtra BJP MLAs
The Maharashtra assembly’s resolution to suspend 12 BJP MLAs for a year for alleged unruly behaviour has been set aside by the Supreme Court. “Suspending the MLAs beyond the sessions is unconstitutional and illegal,” the Supreme Court said today. While the rules say suspension can be for the session,...
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...
Trouble in UP Opposition alliance over seats
The Samajwadi Party- Rashtriya Lok Dal alliance has run into trouble with RLD chief Jayant Chaudhary facing strong dissent from his party’s top Jat leaders in Siwalkhas constituency, located in Meerut but under the Baghpat Parliamentary seat. The disagreement is over the candidature of Ghulam Mohammed, a member of...
Prashant Kishor says BJP has three major strengths over Opposition
The BJP has pitched a “formidable narrative” leveraging issues of Hindutva, hyper-nationalism and public welfare, and opposition parties stand very little chance unless they can outweigh it on at least two of these fronts, election strategist Prashant Kishor said on Monday. “BJP’s popularity is not just a function of...
