Guwahati, May 5 (IANS) After the BJP-led NDA alliance’s third consecutive win in Assam, this time with a greater margin, the Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday asserted that his government will continue drive against illegal infiltration with same vigour.Speaking to IANS, Sarma promised that the move to drive out illegal infiltrators will continue. “The fight for our identity will continue,” he said.He expressed gratitude to the people of Assam for BJP’s landslide win in the state.”We…
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New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Shadanand Chaudhary, founder of political think tank ‘LeaderTank’, on Tuesday described the outcomes of the recently held Assembly elections as “strength of democracy”, stating that they show people hold power. Reacting to the broader electoral picture, Chaudhary contrasted developments in different states.”Tamil Nadu shows now a new leader has come into the arena, and it shows the strength of Indian democracy,” he said.He added that political change in Bengal was expecte…
Thiruvananthapuram, May 5 (IANS) Congress MP Jebi Mather on Tuesday attributed the defeat of CPI-M-led Left Democratic Alliance (LDF) in the Assembly polls to their “corrupt PR exercise”, saying public understands real work. Mather, a Rajya Sabha member, was hopeful that the Congress’s performance in Kerala would “trigger” victory in the 2029 Lok Sabha polls.Speaking to IANS, Mather termed the Congress-led United Democratic Alliance’s (UDA) comeback in Kerala as a “spectacular victory gifted by …
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Kerala’s drug problem is huge. Not only has the state become a major transit and entry point, the consumer market, too, has gone up considerably. Under the scanner of the agencies are the suppliers, the carriers and now the consumers as well.High profile parties which are held in luxury hotels have come increasingly under the scanner in recent months.In addition to this, the police have learnt that the demand for marijuana has gone down considerably and this has been re…
Guwahati, May 5 (IANS) Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal welcomed the spectacular performance of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in the Assam Assembly elections and described the historic mandate as a strong “endorsement of development-driven governance and people-centric leadership”.The MP from Assam’s Dibrugarh also congratulated Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma for leading the alliance to a landslide victory and thanked the people of Assam for g…
New Delhi, May 5 (IANS) Rahul Gandhi, Leader of Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha, on Tuesday criticised his own party leaders for “gloating” about the loss faced by the Trinamool Congress in the West Bengal Assembly elections. He framed the BJP’s victories in West Bengal and Assam as “theft” of mandates achieved to “destroy Indian democracy”.In a post on X, Gandhi said, “Some in the Congress, and others, are gloating about TMC’s loss. They need to understand this clearly – the theft of Assam an…
Mumbai, May 5 (IANS) The Shiv Sena Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray (UBT) on Tuesday said the results of the state elections have unfolded exactly as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had planned. However, it has raised serious concerns about the “pattern” used to secure these wins and the grim state of democracy it represents.The Thackeray camp, in a scathing editorial in the party’s mouthpiece, ‘Saamana’, claimed that the “Modi-Shah pattern” of capturing elections was evident in the results for Assam…
Guwahati, May 5 (IANS) Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Tuesday said that he had anticipated the BJP’s strong performance in the Assembly elections, revealing that he had noted down his assessment on April 9 when polling concluded.In a post on X, CM Sarma said that a month later, the party had exceeded even its best expectations, securing one additional seat and receiving what he described as a “historic blessing” from the people of Assam in the 2026 Assembly elections.Expressin…
Washington, May 5 (IANS) Indian American leaders across the United States welcomed the Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in West Bengal, calling it a “historic mandate” and a turning point for governance, security and development in the state.Eminent Indian American Dr Bharat Barai described the result as “a great victory for the people of West Bengal”, alleging that the previous regime had “unleashed a mafia kingdom using all resources of state and actively threaten voters with rape,…
Bengaluru, May 5 (IANS) Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Central Parliamentary Committee Member B.S. Yediyurappa has said that the Congress has “no future”, asserting that just as the Trinamool Congress was defeated in West Bengal, the Congress will also face a similar fate in the state in the next Assembly elections. Speaking to the media on Monday in the city on the results of the five-state Assembly elections, he added that the Congress, which could not win eve…