Lucknow, May 24 (IANS) Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) national president and former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Mayawati on Sunday held a key meeting of the party’s state unit in Lucknow and asked workers to strengthen the organisation down to the polling booth level while intensifying preparations for the 2027 Assembly elections.Reviewing the party’s organisational work and election readiness at the BSP state office on Mall Avenue, Mayawati said preparations must be made “more efficient and vigi…
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Kolkata, May 24 (IANS) Former Trinamool Congress Rajya Sabha member and doctor Santanu Sen has congratulated and thanked the new BJP government in the state and Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari. He posted on social media on Saturday night, congratulating the new government on the steps being taken in the health sector.Santanu was a Rajya Sabha member from Trinamool and was accused of making anti-party comments during the RG Kar movement. He was later suspended from the Trinamool. However, Santanu…
New Delhi/Kochi, May 23 (IANS) Kerala Chief Minister V.D. Satheesan will hold his first official meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday (May 26) in New Delhi, marking a politically significant engagement soon after assuming office.Satheesan, who arrived in Delhi late on Friday for a series of high-level meetings with Congress leaders, is expected to return to Kochi later on Saturday before flying back to the national capital for the meeting with the Prime Minister.The upcoming inte…
Chennai, May 23 (IANS) Popular YouTuber and political commentator Savukku Shankar was released from Puzhal Central Prison after the Tamil Nadu government revoked the preventive detention order imposed against him under the Goondas Act. His release followed the recommendation of an advisory committee constituted to review cases registered under the law after the change in government in the State.Shankar had earlier been arrested in connection with alleged defamatory remarks made against the previ…
Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) The hanging body of Sanjoy Das, the Trinamool Congress councillor from Ward Number 18 of South Dum Dum Municipality in North 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, was recovered under mysterious circumstances from his residence at Nagerbazar area on the northern outskirts of Kolkata on Saturday morning.On being informed about the incident, the cops from the local police station came to his residence, recovered the body and sent it for post-mortem purposes. Following prelimin…
Chennai, May 23 (IANS) The Election Commission has announced that the biennial election to fill a vacant Rajya Sabha seat from Tamil Nadu will be held on June 18, setting the stage for the first Upper House contest involving the ruling Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK)-led dispensation after its rise to power in the state. The vacancy arose following the resignation of C Ve Shanmugam from the Rajya Sabha after he was elected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly from the Mailam constituency in the recently-co…
Guwahati, May 21 (IANS) The legislature party of the ruling NDA alliance in Assam held a special meeting on Thursday under the chairmanship of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma at the Assam Legislative Assembly premises in Guwahati. The meeting assumed significance in the backdrop of the NDA’s emphatic performance in the recently concluded Assam Assembly elections, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led alliance retained power with a comfortable majority.The state government has decided t…
Gandhinagar, May 20 (IANS) Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel on Wednesday told the Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) examining the ‘One Nation, One Election’ proposal that frequent elections adversely affect governance by repeatedly engaging large sections of the state machinery in electoral work and disrupting economic activity in industrial states such as Gujarat. Addressing the parliamentary panel during its consultation meeting at GIFT City in Gandhinagar, Patel said simultaneous Lok Sabh…
Kolkata, May 20 (IANS) Debraj Chakraborty, Trinamool Congress councillor and husband of Aditi Munshi, the singer-turned-politician and former MLA from Rajarhat-Gopalpur Assembly constituency, has been detained by police, said officials on Wednesday.Although the police have yet to confirm whether Debraj Chakraborty, who is close to Trinamool Congress MP Abhishek Banerjee, has been arrested or not. However, he was detained on Tuesday night on charges of indulging in violence after the 2021 Assembl…
Gandhinagar, May 19 (IANS) The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) on ‘One Nation, One Election’ on Tuesday said simultaneous Lok Sabha, Assembly and local body elections could save nearly Rs seven lakh crore, improve governance efficiency and increase India’s GDP growth by up to 1.6 per cent, as committee chairperson and Lok Sabha MP P.P. Chaudhary outlined the panel’s ongoing consultations and proposed framework. Addressing a press conference, Chaudhary said India had followed a synchr…