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Haryana Congress MLAs likely to be moved to Chhattisgarh to avoid poaching
The Congress was caught by surprise after the BJP backed an Independent candidate for one of the two Rajya Sabha seats in Haryana going to the polls, upsetting its calculations of winning without any contest. Independent candidate Kartikeya Sharma is likely to get votes from the JJP, apart from the surplus BJP votes. Congress' headache has increased after Kuldeep Bishnoi did not attend the recent party MLA's meeting.
Genesis of controversy for Gandhis: The National Herald case history
The AJL was incorporated as a public limited company on November 20, 1937 under the Indian Companies Act, 1913, for the purpose of publication of newspapers in different languages. It started publishing newspapers such as "National Herald" in English, "Navjivan" in Hindi and "Quami Awaz" in Urdu.
Why Congress govt couldn't be repeated in Rajasthan: Sachin Pilot
"Even when (Prime Minister) Narendra Modi was not there (in the Centre), the Congress government could not be repeated. We have to accept the fact that once we were left with only 50 MLAs, and next time, we were left with 21 MLAs. What is the reason that people give majority of votes to our party but then next time, we are unable to repeat the government in Rajasthan?" the Congress leader said
Nitish Kumar announces caste-based census in Bihar
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Wednesday announced the conduct of the long-demanded caste-based census in the state. The decision was taken after an all-party meeting in the Secretariat here on Wednesday evening. Leaders of all nine political parties represented in the Assembly were present in the meeting and gave some important suggestions to the Chief Minister.
Dilip Ghosh in no mood to abide by party gag order
Just a day after BJP's national General Secretary and headquarters in-charge, Arun Singh sent an email communique to Ghosh on this count, the latter was in his usual maverick mood on Wednesday morning. "What is this censorship all about? I have not received such communication from the party high command.
Bill to replace Guv with CM as chancellor likely in Bengal Assembly next week
Going by Trinamool Congress' numerical strength in the Assembly, the state government will have no problem in getting the proposed Bill passed with a comfortable majority. However, the state government will then have to send the Bill to Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar for his assent. State Education Minister Bratya Basu has already said that in case the Governor refuses to clear the Bill, the state government will pass an ordinance to bring the changed system into practice.
'Where will it bring votes from?' Gehlot on BJP's '2nd' RS candidate
Talking to media, Gehlot said: "BJP has fielded Subhash Chandra, but from where will they get votes? None of our MLAs are going to be sold. Our MLAs saved the government without any inducement. What will they offer to those MLAs who refused to be sold even for Rs 35 crore? "They know they don't have all the votes. Will they do 'horse trading' here and spoil the atmosphere?"
ED questions Farooq Abdullah for 3 hours in JKCA scam case
The National Conference chief reached the ED office in the Rajbagh locality of Srinagar at around 11 a.m. Before reaching the ED office, Abdullah told reporters, "I won't say much about the summons. There are elections to be held and they will trouble us till then." ED had summoned Abdullah on May 27 at its Srinagar office in connection with the case. The 84-year old National Conference leader had earlier recorded his statement in the same case in 2019.
Will not work with Congress again in future, says Prashant Kishor
"This is the party responsible for breaking my track record of winning. It is not improving and even it may drown me. Hence, I will never work with the Congress again," Kishor said with folded hands at an interaction with media in Vaishali, where he was to prepare ground for his Jan Suraaj campaign. "In the last 10 years, I was involved in 11 elections and only one I lost in Uttar Pradesh in 2017. At that time, I was associated with the Congress party. It has broken my winning record.
BJP throws a spanner in Congress' RS plans for Rajasthan, Haryana
The candidates are Subhash Chandra in Rajasthan and Kartikeya Sharma in Haryana. The Congress will now have to do extra work to manage its MLAs as the contest heats up in the run up to the June 10 Rajya Sabha elections. In Rajasthan, businessman Subhash Chandra filed his nomination on Tuesday as an Independent candidate backed by the BJP.
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