Bharatiya Janata Party

NEW DELHI: The battle for the credit is on between the Delhi government and the Central government, the bone of contention this time is the ‘Van Mahotsav’ under which the former is planting trees in the national capital. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) led Delhi government is holding a 15-day event of planting 1 lakh […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, in a meeting with BJP Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers, emphasised that the flagship schemes of the Union government should be implemented with full vigour. The prime minister told the BJP Chief Ministers and Deputy Chief Ministers to ensure that schemes like GatiShakti, Har Ghar Jal, Svamitva, DBT […]

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party MP from Gorakhpur Ravi Kishan will introduce a private member’s bill in the Lok Sabha today aimed at controlling the population. The bill comes days after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had expressed concern over the exploding population and population imbalance. Speaking on World Population Day on July […]

NEW DELHI: What Will Prime Minister Narendra Modi Leave Behind When He Moves On? Veteran journalist Ajay Singh, the Press Secretary to the President of India, in his book ‘The Architect of the New BJP: How Narendra Modi Transformed the Party’ explores this question by tracing the journey of PM Modi. A tectonic shift happened […]

NEW DELHI: A day after the Central Government set up a committee on Minimum Support Price (MSP), newly elected Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chaddha moved the notice of suspension of business to discuss the MSP. The AAP has termed it as “anti-government” and “violates principles of federalism”. The farmers’ agitation which […]

KOLKATA: It was a déjà vu feeling of sorts when Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hauled its 69 MLAs to a hotel in Kolkata ahead of the Presidential elections on Monday. Taking a potshot at the decision, All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) national general secretary Abhishek Banerjee said that ‘resort politics is coming to bite BJP […]

DEHRADUN: One state cabinet minister and two Congress MLAs missed the action as 67 members, out of 70, of the state legislative assembly cast their vote in the Presidential Elections on Monday. Three MLAs who did not vote include state cabinet minister Chandan Ram Das, who had to be admitted to a hospital due to […]

LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Wednesday wished the people of the state on the auspicious occasion of Guru Purnima, and appealed to them to celebrate the festival while observing all Covid-related protocols. In his message to the citizens, CM Yogi, who is also the chief priest of the famous Gorakhpur temple, said […]

PANAJI: Amidst fear of desertions, Congress today sent party general secretary and Rajya Sabha MP Mukul Wasnik to Goa to oversee the latest political developments in the state. Months after defeat in the assembly polls earlier this year, the Congress on Sunday once again faced another crisis as former Goa chief minister Digambar Kamat and […]

KOLKATA: The political rivalry between the ruling Trinamool Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is getting hotter by the day ahead of the scheduled panchayat election in 2023. Under fire for its leader Mahua Moitra’s comments defending a derogatory documentary film poster of Goddess Kali, TMC leaders on Thursday met Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar demanding […]