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Priyanka to be driving force for election management as task force meets
The political affairs group is likely to function as the parliamentary board or a core group as the dissidents had demanded revival of the parliamentary board to take key party decisions. With Rahul on board, party president Sonia Gandhi has to ensure that advice from him will be given more weightage. Rahul's key aide K C Venugopal has also been kept in the two committees.
Punjab CM sacks health minister over kickback charges
The Chief Minister said the health minister was involved in corruption cases and they had proof of that. The minister is a legislator from the Mansa Assembly. He was the first minister representing the Assembly as a Cabinet minister in over three decades.
Rajbhar attacks Akhilesh as cracks appear in alliance
"Akhilesh should come out of the comfort of air-conditioners and move out amidst the party workers if he wants to improve his party's performance in 2024," SBSP chief Om Prakash Rajbhar told reporters here. Interestingly, SBSP MLAs did not join the Samajwadi protest in the state Assembly on Monday and remained seated.
Rahul & G-23's Azad, Anand Sharma find place in Cong political affairs group
Rahul Gandhi is part of the political affairs group along with Ghulam Nabi Azad and Anand Sharma who are members of the G-23 group. K.V. Venugopal is a member of two committees and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has been made a member of the Task Force 2024. The Congress statement said, "Following the Udaipur Nav Sankalp Shivir, the Hon'ble Congress President has constituted a Political Affairs Group that will be presided over by her.
Kejriwal has an old habit of taking credit for Centre's work: BJP
The AAP government also claimed that Delhi was going to equal the national record of inducting the most number of buses simultaneously by inducting 150 e-buses into its fleet. The Delhi government has also offered free travel to people for three days in electric buses.
Bihar political activity set to increase as Lalu arrives in Patna
The nomination for the five seats of Rajya Sabha coming under Bihar begins Tuesday. It is expected that two seats can go to the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), two to the BJP and one seat to JD(U). The arrival of Lalu Prasad has significance in the context of the recent political developments. Nitish Kumar and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav have come close in the last one month or so and the relations between Nitish Kumar and the BJP don't seem to be so warm.
'At engineering college, there was no girl in our class; it seemed so bad': Nitish Kumar
While remembering his early days as a student of an engineering college, he said: "When we used to study in engineering college, there was no girl in our class... it seemed so bad. Whenever any woman comes to our class, students use to gather in large numbers to see her. This was the situation at that time. Now see how many girls are studying in engineering and medical colleges."
Owaisi to make inroads in Gujarat via Surat
Owaisi has received a good response in Limbayat, however a small section of the community opposed his visit to the constituency by showing black flags while he was on his way to address a gathering on Monday. The AIMIM leader has advocated for political weightage and representation for Muslims in the state "as like Patidars, Muslims in the state too share 14 per cent of the state's population".
Will Kapil Sibal go to Rajya Sabha again - courtesy JMM or SP?
In UP, where the elections to 11 seats is due, the BJP can win seven and the Samajwadi Party three - and the latter will still have 20 surplus votes. However, a problem will arise for the 11th seat if the BJP fields its eighth candidate, which will necessitate an election. And it is here the surplus votes will be key. However, the ruling BJP has an advantage as it needs less than 10 votes but the opposition is short of 15 votes.
CBI wants to confront Karti with his arrested CA; 60,000 emails recovered
The CBI said that they wanted to confront him with Karti and other accused. The CBI has recovered 65,000 emails which will be used as evidence. S. Bhaskararaman, was earlier remanded to four days custody by the court. The probe agency had said that it needs to recover a few emails and Jor Bagh based property related information from him.
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