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Tripura: BJP, CPI(M), Congress neck-and-neck after 1st round of counting
BJP candidates are leading in 20 seats including Bordowali, Ramnagar, Khayerpur, Majlishpur, Badarghat, Mohanpur, Nalchar, Bishalgarh, while the CPI(M) is leading in 13 including Pratapgarh, Barjala, Bamutia, Belonia, Hrishamukh, Sabroom, Bagabassa, Sonamura. Congress, which contested the February 16 Assembly elections in seat sharing adjustments with the Left parties, is leading in six seats including Agartala, Banamalipur, Pabiachara, Kailashahar, Dharmanagar.
Liquor policy case: When will Kejriwal resign, asks BJP
The BJP also termed Manish Sisodia's resignation letter submitted on Tuesday not having any date as playing with the Constitution. Accusing Kejriwal's PA of trying to tamper with evidence by destroying four mobile phones, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia asked whether the strings of the scam are connected to Kejriwal. Bhatia said that the decision to constitute a Group of Ministers (GoM) was taken at a Cabinet meeting in 2021, which was chaired by Kejriwal.
If Speaker wasn't restrained from deciding disqualification, Shinde wouldn't have become CM: SC
A five-judge bench, headed by Chief Justice of India D.Y. Chandrachud told senior advocate Neeraj Kishan Kaul, representing the Shinde faction, that the Tenth Schedule of the Constitution attaches a disqualification, "the moment you have a rival faction and it absolutely makes no difference whether you are saying, we are in the same party and we represent the same party...".
'Art of listening is powerful': Rahul Gandhi at Cambridge University
"The art of listening" when done consistently and diligently is "very powerful," he added. He said the decline in recent decades of manufacturing in democratic countries, including India and the US, as production has shifted to China, which has produced mass inequality and associated anger that need urgent attention and dialogue.
SC verdict on pleas for independent mechanism to appoint Election Commissioners on Thursday
A constitution bench, headed by Justice K.M. Joseph and comprising Justices Ajay Rastogi, Aniruddha Bose, Hrishikesh Roy, and C.T. Ravikumar had reserved judgment in the matter on November 24, 2022. According to the causelist, two judgments, each by Justices Joseph and Rastogi, will be pronounced at 10.30 a.m. on Thursday in the matter.
Hindenburg report: Congress chalking out social media strategy to corner BJP
Senior Congress leader K.C. Venugopal has enlisted a series of programmes for the block-level leaders and workers, who have been asked to share their agitational programmes with him via e-mail. "Our uncompromising fight shall continue for the next three months and a detailed social media campaign to expose the government-Adani nexus will follow soon," he said.
PM candidate will be named after opposition wins 2024 polls: Farooq Abdullah
In his remarks at a public function here to mark the 70th birthday celebrations of Tamil Nadu Chief Minster M.K. Stalin, he termed Stalin was India's hope and called on him to be in national politics Abdullah also called upon the opposition parties to work as a single front. He also said that it was unacceptable for Jammu and Kashmir to be made a Union Territory.
With 2 ex-ministers in jail, AAP plans door-to-door campaign
Addressing the media after a party workers' gathering, Kejriwal said: "It is enough now. Just like Indira Gandhi had once done too much, they (without mentioning any name) are also doing too much. We will now go door-to-door to reach out to the public. All the leaders will descend on the ground and will go among the people."
Bihar CM Nitish to call all-party meeting on compensation to liquor tragedy victims' kin
He had earlier said that "Jo Piyega Wo Marega" after the Saran liquor tragedy, that claimed more than 100 lives and blinded many others, in the first week of January. Participating in the debate on the motion of thanks on the the Governor's speech during the third day of the Budget session, Nitish Kumar said that the opposition leaders are saying that people are dying due to the consumption of poisonous liquor.
Rajnath Singh calls up CM Nitish over humiliation of Galwan martyr's father
He also asked the Chief Minister to take action against officers who misbehaved with the father. Nitish Kumar himself revealed the incident in the Assembly on the third day of the Budget session on Wednesday. While BJP MLAs including Leader of Opposition Vijay Kumar Sinha were walking out from the house on this issue, he asked them to stay in.
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