CHANDIGARH: Nayab Singh Saini, who was, as expected, elected leader of BJP legislature party, will take oath as Haryana CM Thursday, a date chosen by PM Modi to mark anniversary of sage Valmiki.Home minister Amit Shah enlisted the party’s senior-most legislator Anil Vij, who had staked claim to the CM’s post during the campaign, to…
RAIPUR: A day after Chhattisgarh police arrested Kuldeep Sahu for the murder of the wife and daughter of a head constable, four more suspects – including NSUI district president Chandrakant Chaudhary – were arrested Wednesday. Though the bodies had been found nude, the medical investigation didn’t indicate any ‘initial signs of rape or sexual assault’,…
NEW DELHI: Former Delhi CM and AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday launched a fresh attack on BJP, accusing the saffron party to gain power in Delhi by any means and warned Delhi residents that if they succeed that they will stop facilities such free electricity, uninterrupted power and ruin government schools and hospitals.“Now…
Nayab Singh Saini will retain Haryana CM’s post after recent assembly elections. NEW DELHI: Nayab Singh Saini is set to be sworn in as the chief minister of Haryana for a second term on Thursday, October 17. He was elected as leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) legislative party.Former home and family welfare minister…
New Delhi: BJP kicked off the process to elect its new chief on Tuesday with incumbent J P Nadda announcing the appointment of a national returning officer and co-returning officers to conduct the organisational elections.The drill will enter its last lap in Dec or early next year once organisational polls in at least half the…
MUMBAI: Five months ago, the Mahayuti alliance had to settle for a dismal score of 17 of the state’s 48 LS seats, its poor tally dragging down the BJP’s numbers at the Centre and leaving the opposition confident of a repeat in the assembly polls. Yet, just a week ago, BJP made a comeback by…
RANCHI: INDIA bloc parties in Jharkhand slammed Election Commission (EC) for holding assembly elections in the state along with that of Maharashtra but claimed that they were ready to slug it out with BJP-led NDA, which has welcomed the announcement of poll dates.JMM, Congress, and CPI (ML-L) said the announcement showed that EC was in…
NEW DELHI: Election Commission on Tuesday took a jibe at exit polls – which have had a chequered history regarding the accuracy of their predictions, the case with recent Haryana polls being no different – saying that they are neither based on science nor make public disclosures regarding their methodology, but create a “distortion” by…
Omar Abdullah (PTI photo) SRINAGAR: INDIA bloc heavyweights will be present in strength as National Conference‘s Omar Abdullah takes oath as CM of J&K for the second time Wednesday at a venue along the Dal, ending six years of central rule since BJP‘s withdrawal from the then coalition government forced his predecessor Mehbooba Mufti of…
CM Eknath Shinde and Shiv Sena (UBT) chief Uddhav Thackeray / File photos The political atmosphere heated up in Maharashtra soon after the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday announced the schedule for the assembly polls, which will take place on November 20 in a single phase. Maharashtra chief minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena…
