Puducherry: Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is one among the seven candidates shortlisted by BJP to contest the Puducherry Lok Sabha seat, sources said on Saturday. For Puducherry BJP, Friday was marked by a series of closed-door meetings and consultations, highlighting the significance the party attaches to wresting the seat from the Congress-DMK alliance. “We…
Guwahati: In a boost to the ruling BJP in Arunachal Pradesh ahead of polls, two Congress MLAs and as many legislators from the National Peoples’ Party (NPP) joined the ruling BJP on Sunday.Two MLAs each from the Congress and the National People’s Party (NPP) joined the party on Sunday. The shifting of political allegiance came…
Aligarh (UP): Congress leader Rahul Gandhi Sunday alleged that indigenous, small and cottage-scale industries and artisans are suffering in the country as traders linked to large corporate groups were flooding the markets with Chinese goods. He was addressing a gathering after his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ arrived here from Moradabad via Sambhal. Gandhi was greeted…
Lucknow/New Delhi: Ahead of the upcoming general elections, BSP Lok Sabha MP from Ambedkar Nagar Ritesh Pandey on Sunday resigned from the party’s primary membership and joined the BJP in New Delhi. In his resignation letter addressed to BSP president Mayawati, Pandey said he has come to the conclusion that the party does not need…
Bengaluru: The BJP and the ruling Congress — the key contenders in the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka — are grappling with the challenges of finding winning candidates in several constituencies with stakes high for the two national parties. The BJP had swept the 2019 general elections, bagging 25 of the total 28 seats in…
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday stressed the need to protect the youth from drug addiction and said a strong family support system is needed to combat the vice. “For building a substance-free India, families must be strong as an institution,” he said in a video address to the ‘Ashwamedha Yagya’ event organized…
Devbhumi Dwaraka: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated ‘Sudarshan Setu’, the country’s longest cable-stayed bridge of 2.32 km, on the Arabian sea connecting Beyt Dwarka island to mainland Okha in Gujarat’s Devbhumi Dwarka district. Modi began his day by offering prayers at Lord Sri Krishna temple at Beyt Dwarka. He later inaugurated the four-lane…
Karwar (Karnataka) : Calling Chief Minister Siddaramaiah “Siddaramulla Khan”, BJP MP Anantkumar Hegde has alleged that Karnataka is becoming bankrupt under the Congress government led by him, which wants to loot the state to garner votes. Hitting back at Hegde, CM Siddaramaiah dubbed BJP as “anti Muslims” and “anti minority”. “Modi brought more than 370…
Chennai: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Saturday said most of the political parties in Tamil Nadu have urged the EC to conduct the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in single phase in the state. At the end of his two-day visit to Tamil Nadu to review poll-preparedness, Kumar said the Election Commission (EC) would come…
New Delhi: TMC leader Sheikh Shahjahan and his associates, accused of land grab and sexual assault under coercion in West Bengal’s Sandeshkhali, would forcibly take MNREGA wages from poor tribal families and torture them for voting against the party, the National Commission for Scheduled Tribes (NCST) has learned. Complainants told a three-member National Commission for…
