NEW DELHI: Hemant Soren took oath as the 14th chief minister of Jharkhand on Thursday at a ceremony in Ranchi. This will be the fourth term as chief minister for the 49-year-old leader of the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM). The event was attended by several political leaders, including Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, leader of opposition…
Congress MP Hibi Eden (L) confers with BJP MP and Waqf Amendment Bill JPC chairman Jagdambika Pal at Parliament House on Wednesday NEW DELHI: After protests by opposition members on the panel, the Joint Parliamentary Committee scrutinising the Waqf (Amendment) Bill passed a resolution seeking extension of time for presentation of its report till the…
Asked if he was disappointed that he would not get a second term, Shinde said, “There is no such thing. You must remember BJP supported my tenure as CM.” Outgoing Maharashtra CM Eknath Shinde on Wednesday said he would not be an obstacle to govt formation and would accept any decision taken by PM Narendra…
NEW DELHI: Has the stage been set for reversal of roles between BJP‘s Devendra Fadnavis and Shiv Sena’s Eknath Shinde in Maharashtra? Well, caretaker chief minister Shinde on Wednesday dropped enough hints about a change of guard in Mahayuti even though he did not say that in as many words. Shinde on Wednesday addressed a…
NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday lit into Congress MP Rahul Gandhi for resuming his attack on Veer Savarkar after keeping mum on the Hindutva ideologue during the poll campaign in Maharashtra where he is revered as a social reformer and nationalist.The party cited PM Narendra Modi‘s remarks during the Maharashtra campaign that Rahul” silence was…
LoP in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi during ‘Samvidhan Divas’ function at Samvidhan Sadan, in New Delhi. (PTI) NEW DELHI: BJP on Tuesday slammed leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and said he did not greet President Droupadi Murmu at the event held to mark Samvidhan Diwas in Parliament.Posting two clips of the…
NEW DELHI: The BJP in Maharashtra would be feeling a strange sense of deja vu. Five years after Uddhav Thackeray‘s Shiv Sena claimed that there was an agreed “deal” with the BJP over rotational chief minister, now Eknath Shinde‘s Sena says there was a “deal” with the saffron party for the top job if Mahayuti…
NEW DELHI: To say Uddhav Thackeray is facing an existential crisis barely scratches the surface of the turmoil engulfing the son of Balasaheb Thackeray.Uddhav has lost not only the iconic Shiv Sena name but also the legendary bow-and-arrow symbol to Eknath Shinde, a former loyalist turned formidable adversary, who also claimed the coveted chief minister’s…
NEW DELHI: After surprise setbacks in several key constituencies in Maharashtra in Lok Sabha polls this year, BJP found itself at a crossroads, needing to recalibrate its strategy to regain lost ground. Polarisation of Muslim votes against it led to significant losses for BJP in at least seven constituencies in the Lok Sabha polls that…
MUMBAI: Six months is a long time in politics. The ruling Mahayuti had suffered a major setback in the state in the Lok Sabha elections. But it has made a crushing comeback in the assembly elections, winning 230 of the state’s 288 assembly seats – at 80%, that’s more than a three-fourths majority. MVA, which…
