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Rs 1.5L cash, documents stolen from Bihar Leader of opposition's residence
Gaurav Kumar, an office-bearer at Sinha's office moved an application with the Gandhi Maidan police station and alleged that former personal assistant, Shivam Kumar stole the cash, watch and important documents from his bag. Shivam Kumar is a native of Samar village under the Nanpur police station in Sitamarhi district.
Congress or Third Front? Nitish plays his cards close to his chest for 2024
Bihar has a coalition government of seven parties headed by chief minister Nitish Kumar including deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav of the RJD and supported by the Congress, the Left and Hindustani Awam Morcha. Nitish Kumar admits that challenging the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2024 would not be possible without the Congress.
United on Adani, but divided on alliance: Opposition's fragile equations
Keeping their differences aside, even the BRS and AAP attended the Opposition's meeting convened on Friday to work out a strategy to corner the government in Parliament. Sixteen parties, including INC, DMK, SP, AAP, BRS, SS, RJD, JD(U), CPI(M), CPI, NCP, NC, IUML, KC (Jose Mani), KC (Thomas) and RSP attended the meeting in Leader of Opposition (LOP) Mallikarjun Kharge's chamber in Parliament building.
No unity in sight as Congress, Left allege BJP-TMC tacit understanding
However, the answers to these questions are quite tricky and do not seem to be really positive for the ruling party in West Bengal. Political observers feel that in the current situation of political turmoil the scope is limited for the Trinamool Congress to concentrate fully on a national-level alliance after handling the multi-issues confronting the party in the state.
All eyes on united Opposition's Adani strategy next week in Parliament
Due to the solidarity of the opposition parties, the discussion on the motion of thanks on the President's address has not started yet in the first phase of the budget session of Parliament. With the opposition being adamant on demanding a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into Hindenburg and the Adani group, no business took place due to the ruckus in both the Houses in the first week of the budget session.
BJP top brass confident that Budget sends out right signals for 2024
This budget has prepared a complete road map for the polls in the near future. Explaining the political aspect of this budget, analysts say that there is no doubt that this budget will help in assembly elections of nine states to be held this year and the Lok Sabha elections next year. But the challenge is how the BJP leaders and people's representatives take this budget to the public and how much advantage they can take of it.
With 3 states poll-bound, NE makes big gains, but Opposition rips apart Budget
The Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry's (FICCI) Northeast Advisory Council, the Confederation of Indian Industry's (CII) North East Council, the Federation of Industry & Commerce of North Eastern Region (FINER) and other organisations have highly appreciated the Budget, but, parties' reaction comes on political lines and say its effect would be reflect in the ensuing three Assembly elections.
BJP mega campaign eyes political benefits of Budget's Saptarishi
Along with the government, the party started a mega campaign on February 1, under the chairmanship of party president JP Nadda, at the organisational level to inform the people of the budget's merits, which will run till February 12. In the mega campaign, from February 4 to February 12, the saffron party has developed a strategy to deploy its Central ministers across the country who will hold press conferences in more than 50 cities and interact with the public on the merits of the budget.
Congress targets govt's friends with benefits, slams MGNREGA budget cut
Former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram said, "MGNREGA overlaps with PM KISAN. Old Age Pension overlaps MGNREGA with in the case of old workers. There are dozens of such overlaps." Congress leader Rahul Gandhi termed it as the 'Mitr Kaal' budget -- a spin-off of 'Amrit Kaal' -- has no intent to address major issues.
'We are not at war': Muslim leaders keen on continuing dialogue with RSS
Another Muslim intellectual who once met these leaders said on condition of anonymity that on the cow slaughter issue the community should come up with a detailed response as Muslims are not involved in the cases and it has now become a business issue. He said that issue is likely to be discussed at the Sunday meeting of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board in Lucknow.
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