Attending the music event in Gopalpur to celebrate his poll victory, Mandal said the BJP candidate from Bhagalpur, Rohit Pandey, lost the polls since he didn’t campaign for him.
Former Assam PWD Minister and Congress MLA from Golaghat Ajanta Neog and party’s Lakhipur constituency legislator Rajdeep Gowala joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party last week.
The BJP lost in the Assembly elections held in 2018 but wrested power in March 2019, following a rebellion in the ruling Congress-led by former Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia.
According to sources, Shukla sent his resignation to the Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo and the party’s state chief Subrata Bakshi. The resignation was accepted by the chief minister as well, sources said.
Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav said the biggest problem of the government is that it considers itself a “representative of money power” and not as “public representative”.
“Rahul Gandhi is working as a good leader and will become president of the congress. He will carry all the responsibility and will become the voice of opposition in the country,” Chaudhary said.
The former Karnataka Chief Minister asserted that the party will have 10 lakh fresh members across the state. “The youth JD(S) wing should have five lakh members, who will be active across the state,” he said.
Hooda visited Gurugram, where he met the farmers sitting on protest in a ground near Rajiv Chowk and expressed his solidarity with them.
Reacting sharply to BJP state unit’s tweet accusing him of trying to make Punjab into another West Bengal, the Chief Minister said it was the “power-hungry BJP which had been trying to use the office of the Governor for its own vested interests”.
India’s drugs regulator DCGI on Sunday approved Oxford’s COVID-19 vaccine Covishield and Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin for restricted emergency use.
The Congress chief said that she and the countrymen were distressed by seeing the fate of the ‘annadatas’ in chilly and rainy weather due to government apathy.
Raghav Chaddha, vice chairman of Delhi Jal Board, has been given the charge of Punjab while Kalkaji MLA Atishi will take care of the party’s political ambition in Gujarat.
On Friday, former Chief Minister and RJD leader Rabri Devi had claimed that IAS and IPS officers had been transferred and posted under pressure from the BJP.
His remarks promoted an instant rebuttal from BJP leader and Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya who termed the statement an “insult to the doctors and scientists of the country”.
As for NCP MLA Mani C Kappan eyeing to contest the Pala Assembly seat, the Minister said that there was nothing wrong in the former seeking the seat from the LDF.
Former Chief Minister Rabri Devi on Friday referred to the recent incident in Arunachal Pradesh where six JD(U) MLAs had joined the BJP. She said the JD(U) may break in Bihar as well.
The differences between the Kamal Nath-Digvijay Singh duo and Jyotiraditya Scindia reached breaking point. Supporters of Scindia felt marginalised and sidelined in the party and decided to jump ship just ahead of Rajya Sabha polls in Madhya Pradesh.
A former Minister, Razak claimed that the RJD would induct only those MLAs who are staunch supporters of socialism and secularism.
Karnataka Local body Election Results, Karnataka Gram Panchayat Election results in 2020: The BJP is now leading on 2755 seats, while the Congress is ahead on 1475. Kumaraswamy’s JDS is now leading on 547 seats. The counting is underway.
The Congress, which governed Assam in three straight terms (2001-2016), had secured 26 seats while the AIUDF had bagged 14 seats in the last Assembly polls five years ago.
The results will be updated at regular intervals on the official website of the state election commission — karsec.gov.in and ceokarnataka.kar.nic.in.
Raut was addressing a press conference after his wife has been sent a notice from the Enforcement Directorate (ED) – which he has denied – seeking her appearance on Dec. 29, speaking off a massive row in the state.
The 60-year-old Rajya Sabha member was Uttar Pradesh cadre IAS officer for 26 years before Nitish persuaded him for a deep dive into politics.
These are the first elections in the state after the BJP-JJP alliance came to power in the state in October 2019.
Hooda said that he has requested the Governor to convene a special session of the Assembly “as the government is not wanting a session of the House because it wants to avoid facing a no-confidence motion”.