Guwahati: The BJP will contest all 60 seats in the Manipur assembly elections, the party said today, as it released a list of its candidates. At least 10 former Congress leaders among 16 MLAs who joined the BJP have got tickets in Manipur. Chief Minister N Biren Singh will...
Read MoreNew Delhi: Designed after the “Khela Hobe” campaign song of Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, the Akhilesh Yadav-led opposition alliance has been singing its own “Khadeda Hoibe” (will be chased away) poll jingle in Uttar Pradesh. Based on the local dialect prevalent in the Purvanchal region...
Read MoreNew Delhi: Former Karnataka Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa’s granddaughter was found dead at her home in Bengaluru today. Soundarya, 30, is suspected to have died by suicide. The police have registered a case of “unnatural death”.
Read MoreNew Delhi: A former Uttarakhand Congress chief, expelled by the party yesterday, joined the BJP today just days before the February 14 election in the state. Kishore Upadhyay, expelled for “anti-party activities”, is likely to contest the Uttarakhand polls as a BJP candidate. “I have joined the BJP with...
Read MoreNew Delhi: The Padma Bhushan for Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad has once again spotlighted the sharp divide within the party, with leaders of the “G-23” or group of 23 “rebels” and Gandhi family supporters sparring openly. Former Union Minister Anand Sharma is the latest Congress veteran to wish...
Read MoreAparna Yadav –– the daughter-in-law of Uttar Pradesh’s political first family who served up a huge surprise by joining the BJP — told NDTV today denied the buzz that her reason for switch was denial of a Samajwadi party ticket. “People are telling me that I have come to...
Read MoreNew Delhi: Former Union Minister RPN Singh quit the Congress today amid reports that he is switching to the BJP just weeks before the Uttar Pradesh election. RPN Singh, who is from eastern UP’s Kushinahar, was among the Congress’ biggest leaders in Uttar Pradesh and its Jharkhand in-charge. He...
Read MoreChandigarh: The BJP will contest 65 seats in next month’s Punjab elections while former Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s new party Punjab Lok Congress has got 37 and their third alliance partner Shiromani Akali Dal (Samyukt) getting 15. The seat-sharing pact was announced at a news conference in Delhi by...
Read MoreShiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut on Monday said that the country could have seen a prime minister from his party had they not left contesting from North India for the BJP. “We took BJP from bottom to top in Maharashtra. After Babri, there was a Shiv Sena wave in...
Read MoreNew Delhi: In a span of 72 hours, between 11 and 13 January, 10 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislators in Uttar Pradesh — including three ministers in the Yogi Adityanath cabinet — quit the party. There was one common thread linking them: None of them had had any ideological grooming in the...
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