NEW DELHI: Ex-CM and Kalkaji MLA Atishi was elected by consensus in AAP as leader of opposition (LoP) Sunday. This is the first time a woman will hold the post in Delhi assembly and also the first time in any state in India that both CM and LoP are women.Atishi’s name was proposed by Burari…
Delhi CM Rekha Gupta (Pic credit: ANI) NEW DELHI: CM Rekha Gupta said Sunday the previous AAP dispensation left the state coffers “empty”, but assured that the BJP govt was “committed” to rolling out the Rs 2,500-per month honorarium scheme for eligible women.Addressing a joint press meet with Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva after a…
NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday named Atishi as the leader of opposition in the Delhi assembly, where the BJP holds a majority with 48 MLAs. Former Delhi CM and prominent AAP leader Atishi secured her Kalkaji seat after a tough contest against former BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri and Congress leader Alka Lamba.The…
Three AAP councillors join BJP NEW DELHI: In a setback for AAP ahead of the forthcoming MCD mayoral election, three council members defected to the BJP on Saturday, in the presence of Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva.The council members who joined the saffron party are Anita Basoya (Andrews Ganj), Nikhil Chaprana (Hari Nagar) and Dharamvir…
NEW DELHI: Is Arvind Kejriwal, who suffered a humiliating defeat in the just-concluded Delhi assembly elections, planning a rejig in Punjab? Well, both the BJP and the Congress claim that the incumbent Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann is under pressure after the party’s Delhi debacle. BJP leader and Union Minister Ravneet Singh Bittu on Tuesday…
KOLKATA: Congress’s inflexibility in Delhi and AAP‘s intransigence in Haryana led to BJP victories in assembly elections there, Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee said on Monday while declaring that Trinamool Congress wasn’t banking on anyone’s support to return to govt in the state by a two-thirds majority next year.“We won’t need anybody’s support. But everyone in…
NEW DELHI: Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal on Sunday reacted to AAP leader Atishi celebrating her poll win against Ramesh Bidhuri from Kalkaji seat, calling it “shameless”. This came after top AAP leaders, including Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Satyendra Jain, Saurabh Bharadwaj among others lost Delhi assembly elections to their BJP counterparts.“What kind of shameless…
NEW DELHI: As news broke that Manish Sisodia, Arvind Kejriwal’s trusted lieutenant in AAP, had lost his Jangpura seat in the Delhi elections, former party leader Kumar Vishwas revealed that his wife had started crying. However, he clarified that it wasn’t out of sympathy. “When we heard about Manish Sisodia losing from Jangpura, my wife,…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal, while accepting the party’s defeat in the Assembly elections on Saturday, mentioned that its govt had brought change in Delhi in health, education and other utilities and would continue to work as a constructive opposition.“My party did a lot of work in the last 10 years…
NEW DELHI: Delhi government officials rubbished rumours that the secretariat in the national capital was being sealed after an order went out on Saturday from the general administration department (GAD) that barred the removal of any important document and computer hardware from the premises.GAD cited safety concerns, and said that documents, files and hardware like…
