Patna, July 6 (IANS) The political contest for Bihar’s high-profile Bankipur Assembly by-election has intensified, with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) announcing Rekha Gupta as its candidate on Monday. The announcement came a day after election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor, founder of Jan Suraaj, declared that he would contest the July 30 by-election himself.The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has traditionally held the Bankipur seat, is yet to announce its candidate.RJD Stat…
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Bhubaneswar, June 11 (IANS) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Debashish Samantaray was on Thursday elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Odisha, as no other candidate was in the fray for the lone vacant seat.Samantaray had earlier filed his nomination papers for the by-election to the lone vacant Rajya Sabha seat from Odisha at the State Assembly premises here on June 5.According to the election schedule, nominations closed on June 8, while June 11 was the last date for withdrawal of candi…
New Delhi, June 5 (IANS) Delhi BJP President Harsh Malhotra on Friday led party workers in organising plantation drives across all 256 mandals in response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to join the “Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam” campaign on World Environment Day. Malhotra spread the message of environmental conservation by planting a sapling as part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s “Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam” campaign.He urged party workers and citizens to plant more trees and take a pledge to…