If petrol price keeps rising by 80 paise a day, it would be costing Rs 275 a litre by November or December assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said on Saturday. Yadav made the remark, terming his calculation of probable future prices of petrol as “the mathematics of inflation under … Read more
Home minister Amit Shah on Friday rallied the youth wing of BJP with the launch of a key programme from Bengaluru, marking an early start to the party’s election campaign in Karnataka which goes to the polls in a year. The Bharat Darshan programme, for familiarising yuva morcha functionaries with the richness and diversity of … Read more
With Gujarat polls slated for the yearend, Congress is trying to woo Shree Khodaldham Trust chairman Naresh Patel to lead the party. Patel, an industrialist and an important figure in the Patidar community, heads the trust that built the Khodiyar Mata temple at Kagwad in Saurashtra. Khodiyar Mata is the reigning deity of the Leuva … Read more
Buoyed by its success in the recent assembly polls in five states, the BJP in Gujarat has set the ball rolling on its preparations for the state elections at the end of the year. Apart from a massive ground outreach to rope in 7.5 million page members to make the BJP organisationally strong, the party … Read more
A fact-finding team of the BJP submitted its report on a recent case of violence in West Bengal‘s Birbhum district, in which nine people were burnt to death, to party president JP Nadda on Wednesday and demanded central intervention for the restoration of law and order in the state. The BJP had constituted the five-member … Read more
Aam Aadmi Party MP Sanjay Singh on Tuesday asked the government to allocate Rs 20,000 crore for the rehabilitation of Kashmiri Pandits. During the discussion on the Finance Bill-2022 in Rajya Sabha, Singh raised the issue of “abuse” of a chief minister by a BJP state president and questioned the culture in the party and … Read more
Mumbai: Pramod Sawant was sworn in as the chief minister of Goa for the second consecutive time on Monday, along with eight other ministers. Governor PS Sreedharan Pillai administered the oath of office at a ceremony held at the Dr Shyamaprasad Mukherjee Stadium at Taleigao which was attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Ministers … Read more
Maharashtra Congress leader Sachin Sawant on Monday welcomed Union minister Nitin Gadkari‘s “a strong Congress is important for democracy” remark, but asked him to speak to Prime Minister Narendra Modi on what he claimed as BJP‘s efforts to destroy the opposition. At an event in Pune on Saturday, Gadkari said a strong Congress is important … Read more
As BJP completes government formation in the four states it won in the recent assembly polls with the swearing of Goa government on Monday, one message it sends out is that good work gets rewarded to both insiders and outsiders. BJP’s formula of success, election after election, seems to be to attract talent from other … Read more
The Indigenous People’s Front of Tripura (IPFT), an ally of the ruling BJP in the North-eastern state, on Sunday said it would discuss the possibility of merging or allying with the Tripura Indigenous Progressive Regional Alliance (TIPRA Motha) before the assembly elections due early next year. The TIPRA Motha, headed by royal scion Pradyot Kishore … Read more