Bhartiya Janata Party chief Amit Shah donated an amount of Rs 1000 into the party account on Tuesday and urged supporter to contribute to the party fund. Shah appealed to the people and supporters of the BJP to join the initiative and donate using either Namo app or at donations.narendramodi.in. BJP chief[Read More…]
New Delhi: Former diplomat Satender Kumar, a Dalit from Uttar Pradesh, on Tuesday joined the Congress. Kumar, who was India’s ambassador to Suriname was formally inducted into the party by Congress General Secretary in charge of Uttar Pradesh Ghulam Nabi Azad and state Congress chief Raj Babbar. Around 350 supporters[Read More…]
In view of Lok Sabha elections 2019, Rashtriya Lok Samta Party has begun to explore the ground reality and new sites for the expansion of party, following which party chief Upendra Kushwaha has marked Jharkhand as a new spot. RLSP, which is in loggerheads with BJP and JDU over seat-sharing[Read More…]
Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni and former JNUSU president Kanhaiya Kumar has clearly stated that if Nitish Kumar joins us to save the constitution we will welcome him. He said that I will appreciate Nitish Kumar for his good deeds, but where there will be flaws, I won’t mind criticizing him also.[Read More…]
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) have sealed a seat-sharing deal in Bihar for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The agreement will be formally announced soon, said JDU spokesperson Sanjay Singh on Tuesday in Patna. Earlier, there were disagreements over the seat-sharing between[Read More…]
A Muzaffarpur-based social activist, Tamanna Hashmi accused the Union Minister Giriraj Singh of hurting religious sentiments. Social worker Tamanna Hashmi has filed a lawsuit against Giriraj Singh for proposing to change the name of Bakhtiyarpur city. Bakhtiyarpur is named after Bakhtiyar Khilji – the military general of Qutb-ud-Aibak – who destroyed the[Read More…]
Ahead of assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, Congress has decided to implement a new formula to reduce dissent within the party cadres. Party has declared that it will not field any senior leaders and state presidents in assembly elections. After the declaration, it is expected that senior leaders[Read More…]
The Hyderabad police on Monday seized around Rs 70 lakh in Shahinayathgunj area during a check, which is being conducted in the whole state ahead of Telangana polls scheduled for December 7. The police told media, they conducted checks between 6:30 and 7:30 pm and during that time police found[Read More…]
Bharatiya Janata Party released a list of star campaigners for Chhattisgarh Assembly Elections 2018, including big names like Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP Chief Amit Shah, along with 10 other Union ministers and four chief ministers. A list of the same was also submitted with the Election Commission of India[Read More…]
Ahead of assembly polls in Chhattisgarh, the triangular contest between Janta Congress Chhattisgarh, Congress and Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) have become more interesting after the recent political developments in the state. According to sources, anti-incumbency is totally evident in BJP ruled state, but Congress has failed to utilize the whole[Read More…]
Ahead of Chhattisgarh assembly election, Congress released its second list of candidates on Monday, including Karuna Shukla, who is the niece of former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, against Chief Minister Raman Singh from Rajanandgaon. Karuna Shukla is a senior Congress leader and has been very vocal on various issues[Read More…]
Janta Congress Chhattisgarh chief Ajit Jogi, who parted ways with Congress in 2016 and stated that he is neither with Congress nor BJP. Further Congress alleged that Ajit Jogi is a ‘B Team’ of BJP and he is trying to create a negative image of Congress in tribal regions of[Read More…]
Ruling BJP, who is facing acute anti-incumbency in Rajasthan, is trying to woo every community through various means. However, saffron party’s biggest concern revolves around the Rajput community, which accounts for 12 per cent of Rajasthan’s population and gradually shifting from BJP to others. Rajput community holds a considerable amount[Read More…]
New Delhi, Oct 22 (IANS) In the wake of the CBI registering a corruption case against its Special Director Rakesh Asthana, the Congress on Monday indicted the Narendra Modi government for the probe agency’s credibility and integrity being questioned. Leading the attack, Congress President Rahul Gandhi termed the CBI as[Read More…]
The concern of farmers welfare has become a priority of the political parties in poll-bound Rajasthan. Following which, Rampal Jat an influential Jat leader of the state along with the support of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) will go on a hunger strike from Tuesday over farmers’ issues. The statement was[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh Congress, which made several attempts to showcase unity in the poll-bound state, is in loggerheads with all the senior state leaders over various issues. Although the big three Digvijaya Singh, Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia earlier stated that they will not let Bhartiya Janta Party get the better[Read More…]
In a major political development on Sunday, Janta Congress Chhattisgarh supremo Ajit Jogi has decided to contest the upcoming assembly elections from Marwahi. The constituency is the traditional bastion of Jogi family. Earlier there were reports that former Chhattisgarh CM will not contest the election. Ajit Jogi had won from[Read More…]
Bhartiya Janta Party’s Central Election Committee (CEC) on Saturday declared candidates for the forthcoming assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Mizoram and Telangana. Among the 77 candidates announced for Chhattisgarh assembly, 14 sitting MLAs have been replaced with new names, Union minister J P Nadda told media. 38 candidates for Telangana assembly[Read More…]
Chennai: South Actor turned politician Rajinikanth on Saturday said that one should maintain ‘Caution’ over women’s entry in Sabarimala, years old tradition being followed, in a response to the Supreme Court verdict on entry of women of all age groups into the temple premise in Kerala, which followed a violent[Read More…]
Janta Dal United (JDU), who has collaborated with Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) in Bihar, is making efforts to form a grand alliance with small political outfits of Madhya Pradesh against the BJP in the upcoming assembly polls. JDU Supremo Nitish Kumar along with party Vice-President Prashant Kishor will meet Madhya[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh assembly elections which are expected to set the tone for 2019 Loksabha elections, has created an atmosphere of insecurity within some Members of Parliament (MPs) of the state. BJP, who won 26 constituencies in Madhya Pradesh during 2014 Loksabha elections, is facing massive resentment against sitting MPs over[Read More…]
Hyderabad: Congress President Rahul Gandhi kicked off his party’s election campaign in Telangana by targeting both Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister K. Chandrashekhar Rao by accusing them both of indulging in corruption. Promising to build ‘new Telangana’, he addressed a massive public meeting at Bhainsa town in Adilabad[Read More…]
During 2008 assembly election 40% MLAs were crorepatis and figure crossed 70 per cent in 2013. As per the affidavits filed with the Election Commission of India in 2013, the average financial assets of Members of Legislative Assembly (MLAs) in Madhya Pradesh was 5.24 crore and around 161 were crorepatis[Read More…]
Begusarai MP and senior Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Bhola Singh died on Friday at the age of 82. He breathed his last at the Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital in Delhi. Bhola Singh was ill for a long time and had been admitted to Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi. Bhola[Read More…]
Telangana Rashtra Samithi Supremo K Chandrashekar Rao (KCR) is likely to provide necessary instructions to all the 105 candidates of TRS on the strategy to be implemented in the upcoming elections at Telangana Bhavan on October 21. According to reports, TRS leaders and all the 105 candidates will be present[Read More…]