NEW DELHI: Bollywood actor Govinda on Thursday joined Shiv Sena in presence of Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde.He after joining Shiv Sena said that it is an amazing coincidence that he has returned to politics after 14 years. He further said that he will fulfill whatever responsibilities that will be given to him.“I was in…
NEW DELHI: Former Haryana minister Savitri Jindal has resigned from the Congress, following her son Naveen Jindal‘s switch to the BJP. Savitri, 84, made her announcement on social media, stating her decision was influenced by family advice. She served as an MLA for Hisar for a decade and as a minister in Haryana.“I represented the…
MUMBAI: Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Friday denied there was any quid pro quo in contributions to BJP through electoral bonds (EBs) and raids on corporates by ED.In response to a question at The Economic Times Awards for Corporate Excellence in Mumbai, Sitharaman dismissed such allegations as loose talk. “Linking it (buying of bonds)…
NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) released its first list of candidates on Saturday, naming 195 contenders across the country. Among the notable mentions was the surprising selection of Union minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar, a three-time Rajya Sabha member, as the BJP‘s candidate for the Thiruvananthapuram constituency in Kerala.The Thiruvananthapuram battleground has intensified with Chandrasekhar’s…
NEW DELHI: Amid speculations of Kamal Nath leaving Congress and his stubborn refusal to scotch the talk, his confidant Sajjan Singh Verma on Sunday said the veteran is focused on how to select election candidates in MP and that there is no issue of defecting to BJP.Speaking to reporters after meeting Nath, Verma said the…
Deep discord fuelled by competing ambitions and differing strategies became more apparent within INDIA bloc following JD(U)’s exit from the alliance. Despite sharing a common goal of countering BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, internal conflicts have undermined the bloc formed in July 2023. CM Mamata Banerjee announces TMC will contest Lok Sabha polls…
NEW DELHI: Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan, whose feud with Nitish Kumar pulled down JDU’s tally in 2020 Bihar assembly polls, has said that he has no problem with JD(U) returning to NDA, but cautioned the BJP leadership about Bihar CM’s propensity to flip sides.Chirag, who discussed the fast-paced developments in Bihar…
NEW DELHI: The Lok Sabha ethics committee meeting to adopt its draft report on the cash-for-query allegations against TMC MP Mahua Moitra has been postponed to November 9. It was scheduled to meet on November 7.The Lok Sabha secretariat, in a notice, did not cite any reason for rescheduling the meeting. The committee, headed by…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said Telangana chief minister K Chandrashekar Rao wanted to join the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance after the Hyderabad Municipal Corporation elections, but he turned down the request of the Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) supremo. At a rally in poll-bound Telangana, PM Modi said: “Let me tell you…
NEW DELHI: Rahul Gandhi on Sunday asserted that Congress will win in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana, and has a strong chance of returning to office in Rajasthan, even as he claimed that the cohesion in the opposition INDIA bloc was unprecedented and seat-sharing was pending in just some small states. He said the “BJP…
