Lucknow, June 28 (IANS) Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party (SBSP) president Om Prakash Rajbhar, and a Minister in the Uttar Pradesh government, on Sunday, once again targeted Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, this time accusing him of discrimination in the utilisation of MP funds.Rajbhar alleged that development works in Kannauj Lok Sabha constituency were restricted to select areas, while non-Yadav backward communities and Dalits were consistently ignored. In a post on X on Sunday, Rajbhar said…
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Chandigarh, June 13 (IANS) Haryana Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini on Saturday accused the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab of large‑scale corruption, calling it a “gang of looters” and claiming its tenure was nearing an end. Citing the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) emphatic victory in the Abohar Municipal Corporation elections, he said the result was a clear indication of the political change taking shape in Punjab and expressed confidence that the BJP would form the next go…
Mumbai, June 8 (IANS) The Rajya Sabha nomination exercise within the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) underscored the leadership’s tightrope walk as it sought to balance generational aspirations and organisational stability.Following the withdrawal of OBC stalwart and Maharashtra Minister Chhagan Bhujbal and handing the ticket to Rajendra Jain — a staunch loyalist of party Working President Praful Patel — the NCP leadership managed to avert a messy, public showdown.This move represents a hig…
Bengaluru, June 1 (IANS) Karnataka Chief Minister-designate D.K. Shivakumar and caretaker CM Siddaramaiah reached New Delhi on Monday to hold discussions with the Congress high command on the formation of the new state cabinet.The two senior leaders travelled to the national capital on the same flight as the exercise to finalise the composition of the cabinet shifted to Delhi. AICC President Mallikarjun Kharge also left for Delhi earlier from his residence in Bengaluru. Siddaramaiah’s son MLC Ya…
Mumbai, May 30 (IANS) Maratha quota activist Manoj Jarange Patil, setting aside the comforts of protest pandals, on Saturday launched his ninth indefinite hunger strike here under the blazing May sun. Rejecting last-minute government delegation led by the Maharashtra Water Resources Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil, Jarange Patil has opted for an extreme form of protest by sitting in the open without food, water, or shelter, accusing the MahaYuti government of pushing the community through an “…
Haveri (Karnataka), May 29 (IANS) Former Karnataka Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Basavaraj Bommai said on Friday that caretaker CM Siddaramaiah’s decision to remain active in state politics would act as a “hanging sword” over the Deputy Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar, while asserting that the BJP would return to power on its own strength whenever elections are held in the state. Addressing a press conference in Haveri, Bommai added that Siddaramaiah had a long political jour…
New Delhi, May 23 (IANS) Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav appears to be recalibrating the expanded form of an acronym he coined earlier, with an eye on the Assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh next year.“PDA” – a term he is said to have had formulated to represent “Pichda” (backward), Dalit (oppressed), and Alpsankhyak (minority) – widening the earlier “MY” (Muslim-Yadav) formula that was largely seen as representing the SP vote bank.It was assumed that the new acronym wo…
Kolkata, May 23 (IANS) After the change of government in West Bengal, Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari has taken a big step to bring transparency in the recruitment process in the state. From now on, it will be mandatory to provide carbon copies of OMR sheets to the candidates who appeared for the tests.Chief Minister Adhikari made the announcement at a government-organised job fair in Sealdah in central Kolkata. He said, “Carbon copies should be provided to every young man and woman candidates. …
Kolkata, May 9 (IANS) Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday took oath as the Chief Minister of the first BJP-ruled West Bengal government, along with four other members of the state Council of Ministers led by him.The other five members of the state Council of Ministers who were sworn in on Saturday include the former national vice-president and former state president of the BJP in West Bengal, Dilip Ghosh, fashion-designer-turned politician and two-time BJP legislator, Agnimitra Paul, former BJP Lok Sab…
Jaipur, April 23 (IANS) BJP State President, Madan Rathore, on Thursday claimed that the Ashok Gehlot-Sachin Pilot photo that was taken at the meeting of the OBC Advisory Council held at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi on Wednesday, appears to project unity but in fact underscores their continuing internal differences.He claimed that the need to publicly showcase togetherness points to underlying discord.Commenting further, Rathore expressed surprise at Ashok Gehlot’s statement that Rah…