Is Tejashwi Yadav, the deputy chief minister of Bihar, now the party’s senior leader? Sudhakar Singh, a party comrade and state minister, just resigned, which is indicative of Mr. Yadav’s frustration with individuals challenging his and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s authority. Continue Reading
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The Bombay High Court today struck a severe blow to the Shiv Sena group led by Eknath Shinde by allowing the Uddhav Thckeray-led Shiv Sena to hold a Dussehra rally in Mumbai’s renowned Shivaji Park. The Shinde faction asked the court to delay making a decision on the petition until the claim to the party […]Continue Reading
The BJP swept the election for a cooperative body in Nandigram, a former Trinamool Congress bastion where the Bengal Chief Minister was defeated in 2021, dealing a crushing blow to Mamata Banerjee. The cooperative organisation Bhekutia Samabay Krishi Samity, which was formerly led by Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool, has seen the BJP win 11 of its […]Continue Reading
Arvind Kejriwal, the leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), offered fixed salaries for village heads in addition to direct funding for panchayats if his party won an election in Gujarat. Speaking at a gathering of sarpanchas (village heads), the Delhi Chief Minister, who arrived in the BJP-ruled state on Friday for a two-day campaign […]Continue Reading
The impasse over who will lead Congress going forward shows no signs of ending even in election week. According to insiders, the most recent attempts to persuade Rahul Gandhi to accept the position have failed. Since quitting in the wake of the disastrous 2019 general election, he has been staunch in his resistance, rejecting the […]Continue Reading
Nitish Kumar, the chief minister of Bihar, anticipates that the BJP’s Awadesh Narayan Singh, the chairman of the Legislative Council, will resign on his own after the new Grand Alliance’s 55 MLAs submitted a no-confidence resolution against Speaker Vijay Kumar Sinha. Nitish Kumar has long advocated for Mr. Sinha’s resignation. The Chief Minister Continue Reading
Arun Sao, 53-year-old MP from Bilaspur in Chhattisgarh, was named the next state BJP president on Tuesday, the party announced in a letter. Vishnudeo Sai, the party’s tribal chief, was replaced by Sao. Sao’s appointment as the head of the BJP state unit is considered as a counter to the Chhattisgarh Congress’s reputation as a […]Continue Reading
In order to resign as Chief Minister, Nitish Kumar has broken off his Bihar partnership with the BJP and is meeting with the Governor. Before deciding to leave the BJP for good a second time, Nitish Kumar met with his MLAs. Before the meeting, a top member of his party told NDTV to “expect explosive […]Continue Reading
In the midst of a sizable demonstration against growing costs, unemployment, and the GST increase on necessities outside the Congress party’s Delhi headquarters, several leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, were detained. Congress members protested today in Parliament by donning black attire, under the leadership of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi, Continue Reading
In a major victory for Uddhav Thackeray in the struggle for leadership of the Shiv Sena, the Supreme Court today instructed the Election Commission to defer making a decision about a request by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to recognise his organisation as the legitimate party. On Monday, the Supreme Court is likely to decide […]Continue Reading