The Congress urged punishment against those responsible for the alleged security breach on Friday, accusing the government of removing security personnel from around Rahul Gandhi as the “Bharat Jodo Yatra” approached Qazigund in Jammu and Kashmir. “Lapse in Shri Rahul Continue Reading
Politics
Udhayanidhi, the eldest son of MK Stalin, the chief minister of Tamil Nadu, was sworn in as a cabinet minister today. The DMK’s “rising son,” Udhyanidhi, has been appointed the state’s new minister of sports. Statewide support is strong for Udhayanidhi Stalin, an MLA from the Chepauk-Thiruvallikeni Assembly constituency. At Raj Bhavan, Tamil Nadu Continue Reading
Today’s ceremonial oath ceremony for Gujarat’s new chief minister, Bhupendra Patel, who took over for Vijay Rupani in September of last year before the state’s elections, will mark the start of the BJP’s seventh term in office in the state. Along with him, some 25 cabinet ministers will swear an oath. Contrary to fears of […]Continue Reading
The final decision over who would serve as the state’s chief minister will be made by Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who party leaders have credited with the party’s victory in the Himachal Pradesh Assembly elections, according to reports. This comes after a day of intense drama in the hill state, where competing factions […]Continue Reading
Dimple Yadav, a candidate for the Samajwadi Party, defeated BJP challenger Raghuraj Singh Shakya on Thursday to win the prestigious Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat by more than two lakh votes. After Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Samajwadi Party’s founder, passed away on October 10, the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat fell vacant, forcing a byelection within six […]Continue Reading
Despite the fact that the BJP did not nominate a single Muslim candidate, Muslim-majority districts in Gujarat contributed to the party’s historic triumph today. In a number of Gujarati seats with a large Muslim population, the ruling party appeared to be outperforming the Congress. Having a rise of six seats, the BJP held the majority […]Continue Reading
The AAP won a prestige victory in an election that turned out to be closer than anticipated, and the BJP did not lose as much as was anticipated. The Congress barely succeeded in maintaining any relevance. The Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP has defeated the firmly established BJP in the prestige contest for the Municipal Corporation of […]Continue Reading
After casting his ballot in Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi hurried back to Delhi to convene a two-day strategy meeting for the upcoming election. Before the big show — the national elections in 2024 — in which the BJP will run for a third consecutive term in power at the Center, a number of state […]Continue Reading
In Ahmedabad today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi voted in the second round of the elections for the Gujarat Assembly. A multitude of people cheered as the PM made his way to the polling place at Nishan Public School. He said hello to those he passed while standing in line to cast his ballot. He then […]Continue Reading
Rivaba Jadeja, a candidate for the Gujarat BJP from the North Jamnagar seat, said today that she saw “no difficulty” in her family’s differing ideologies after her husband’s family supported her Congress opponent. Rivaba Jadeja is the wife of cricketer Ravindra Jadeja. “There is no difficulty. There can be people of different ideologies in the Continue Reading