Bhopal, April 7 (IANS) In a significant political development on Tuesday, Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Hemant Khandelwal met senior party leader and former State Home Minister Narottam Mishra. State BJP President Khandelwal reached Mishra’s official residence located in Char Imli area in Bhopal. Subsequently, both leaders held a closed-door meeting, which lasted nearly half-an-hour.The BJP said it was a courtesy meeting between both senior party leaders; however, this cr…
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New Delhi, April 7 (IANS) The Delhi High Court on Tuesday issued notices to the Madhya Pradesh government and the Election Commission of India (ECI) on multiple petitions filed by Congress leader Rajendra Bharti, who has been convicted and sentenced in a Rural Development Bank fraud case.The High Court denied him any interim relief at this stage.The court sought the Madhya Pradesh government’s response to Bharti’s plea challenging his conviction and three-year sentence awarded by a Special M…
Bhopal, April 3 (IANS) The conviction of Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti by Delhi’s Special MP/MLA court in a cheating case, followed by his disqualification from the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly within hours, has triggered a political row in the state.Madhya Pradesh Congress president Jitu Patwari, addressing a press conference on Friday, raised questions on the haste shown in disqualifying Datia’s Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti’s membership from the State legislative assembly, stating th…
Bhopal, April 3 (IANS) The Madhya Pradesh State Assembly has officially declared the Datia seat vacant consequent to Rajendra Bharti’s conviction for an offence as established by an April 2 judgment passed by a court in Delhi. The verdict, passed by the Special Judge, Digvijay Singh (PC Act), of the Rouse Avenue District Court, New Delhi, sentenced Bharti to three years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs one lakh.Rajendra Bharti, the elected member from Constituency No. 22 (Datia) of the 16th Le…
Bhopal, April 3 (IANS) The membership of Congress MLA from Datia, Rajendra Bharti, has been cancelled from the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly following his conviction in a cooperative bank fraud case by a Delhi court.“As a consequence of his (Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti) conviction — resulting in a three-year term of imprisonment and a monetary fine of Rs 100,000 on April 2, 2026 — and in compliance with the order of the Supreme Court dated July 10, 2013, Rajendra Bhartiya stands disqu…
Bhopal, April 3 (IANS) The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Madhya Pradesh has undertaken a significant restructuring of its media wing with the appointment of 9 state Co-media in-charges, 33 state spokespersons, and 41 media panelists. The new team was announced late on Thursday night with the approval of State BJP President Hemant Khandelwal. State media in charge of Ashish Agarwal formally released the list of the revamped media team.In a development, the party has included around 11 sitting M…
Bhopal, April 2 (IANS) The Opposition Congress in Madhya Pradesh on Thursday raised apprehensions over the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) intentions regarding the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections in the state, following the conviction of Datia MLA Rajendra Bharti in a cheating and forgery case.Leader of the Opposition in the Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly, Umang Singhar, reacting to the developments after Bharti’s conviction by a Special MP-MLA court in Delhi, said: “The BJP’s in…
New Delhi, April 2 (IANS) A day after convicting Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti for criminal conspiracy, the Special MP-MLA Court at Delhi’s Rouse Avenue sentenced him to three years’ imprisonment on Thursday.Congress MLA from Datia Assembly constituency in Gwalior division of Madhya Pradesh was convicted by Delhi’s Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday and was sent to judicial custody. On Thursday, after pronouncing the quantum of punishment, the Court granted him bail upon furnishing a personal …
New Delhi/Bhopal, April 1 (IANS) An MP-MLA court in New Delhi on Wednesday convicted sitting Congress MLA Rajendra Bharti in connection with a case dating back over 28 years, related to a Cooperative Rural Development Bank in Datia district of Madhya Pradesh.After convicting Bharti, who is the MLA from the Datia Assembly seat in the Gwalior division of Madhya Pradesh, the court sent him to jail, senior advocate Anil Kumar Shukla, who argued on behalf of the bank, told IANS on Wednesday.However, …