POLITICS

The Prime Minister will visit the Command and Control Centre for Schools in Gandhinagar on April 18. On the second day of his visit, the Prime Minister will dedicate to the nation and lay the foundation stone of multiple development projects at Banas Dairy Sankul in Diyodar, Banaskantha. Later in the day, Modi will lay the foundation stone of WHO Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar.

"I have tendered my resignation so as to not cause embarrassment to the party in connection with this case," Eshwarappa said. Santhosh K Patil, a civil contractor and local BJP leader from Belagavi, committed suicide by consuming poison on April 12 at a lodge in Udupi.

In the Ballygunge Assembly constituency, the BJP candidate, Keya Ghosh, finished third by managing only 12.8 per cent of the total votes polled. In the 2021 Assembly elections, BJP's Loknath Chatterjee not only finished second, but also secured 20.50 per cent votes. However, despite Trinamool's Babul Supriyo winning from Ballygunge, the party will ponder over its declining vote share there.

Former union minister and Trinamool Congress candidate Shatrughan Sinha won from Asansol Lok Sabha seat by over 3 lakh votes. Former minister in the Narendra Modi government and Trinamool Congress candidate Babul Supriyo won from Ballygunge assembly constituency.

Becoming the first-ever woman to represent the Kolhapur North seat, she defeated her main political rival and BJP nominee Satyajit Kadam by a comfortable margin of nearly 18,800 votes in the elections held two days ago. Among the 15 candidates, while Jadhav secured 96,226 votes, Kadam trailed far behind with 77,426 votes in his favour in the hotly-contested elections.

This is the first ever victory of a Trinamool candidate from Asansol since the creation of this Lok Sabha constituency. Although the final margin of victory for both the constituencies are yet to be declared by the Election Commission, figures available from the counting centres confirmed the victory of Trinamool in both the constituencies.

The prime minister said that Lord Hanuman is a key thread of "Ek Bharat Shreshtha Bharat". PM Modi also said that the statue of Hanuman Ji in Morbi is the second of the 4 statues being set up at four cardinal points in the country, under the 'Hanumanji Char Dham project'. This statue has been set up in the west, at the Ashram of Param PujyaBapuKeshvanand ji in Morbi.

The bypoll for the erstwhile royal seat of the Chhatrapatis was necessitated following the death of Congress MLA Chandrakant Jadhav who succumbed to Covid-19 in December 2021. Top leaders of the Shiv Sena-Nationalist Congress Party-Congress hailed Jayashree Jadhav's victory saying that the people of Kolhapur had rejected outright the BJP's divisive politics of Hindutva and hatred vis-a-vis the MVA's all-inclusive developmental agenda.

Prime Minister Modi was speaking after virtually unveiling a 108 ft statue of Lord Hanuman in Morbi, Gujarat. Greeting the devotees on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti, the Prime Minister said that dedication of the 108 ft statue of Lord Hanuman in Morbi is a happy occasion for the devotees all over the world.

Nowadays, more focus is being put on Hindi and officials have been encouraged to use it as the language of communication for all the correspondence and day to day affairs of the government, they stated. The officials added that all the Ministers and Prime Minister Modi address officials' meetings in Hindi and all government releases are made in Hindi and then get translated into English.