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AAP to support joint oppn candidate Yashwant Sinha in Presidential Poll
The Presidential poll is scheduled to be held on July 18 as the tenure of President Ram Nath Kovind ends on July 24. The decision was taken in party's top-most national-level body Political Affairs Committee meeting held at Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's residence on Saturday.
Pop singer Daler Mehndi, Congress leader Sidhu share same barrack in Patiala jail
The other high-profile politician in the jail is Shiromani Akali Dal leader Bikram Singh Majithia, the brother-in-law of MP Sukhbir Badal. A Patiala district court on Thursday upheld the two-year jail term of Mehndi, who in 2018 was sentenced for a 2003 human trafficking case.
Shinde, Fadnavis uphold renaming of Aurangabad, Osmanabad
Briefing the media after a cabinet meeting, Shinde said that Aurangabad will be renamed as 'Chhatrapati Sambhaji Nagar' and Osmanabad shall be rechristened as 'Dharashiv'. The upcoming new international airport shall be renamed after D. B. Patil, a prominent leader from Konkan, he added.
His name still holds weight in Gujarat: Ahmed Patel's daughter on SIT charges
Earlier, the Congress dismissed as "mischievous and manufactured", SIT's charges that Ahmed Patel had financed civil rights activist Teesta Sitalwad and hatched conspiracy to dislodge the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi-led state government.
Despite rampant factionalism in Congress, Gehlot hasn't let BJP fish in troubled waters
The opposition is adding fuel to the fire and is leaving no stone unturned to cash in on the situation. However, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is giving a tough fight to the Opposition and hence 'Operation Lotus' has failed to yield results here so far. However, the feuds between Gehlot and former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot's camps have been going on unchecked since December 2018 when the government was formed.
FIR lodged against Mahua Moitra in Assam for 'Gogoi' tweet
In the FIR, Pranab Chetia, President of the organisation's Sivasagar unit, wrote: "It has been observed that her (Moitra's) Twitter comment is deliberately replacing the word sexual harassment with the word Mr. Gogoi, which is a clear intention to defame and disregard an established ethnic community of Assam, and hence I urge the law of the land to protect the sanctity, integrity and respect of the Ahom community and bring Mohua Moitra to justice."
Shinde-Fadnavis combine loses no time to dismantle MVA legacy
The Shinde-Fadnavis' move, though anticipated, attracted howls of protest from greens, activists and even former CM Uddhav Thackeray -- who was like a �godfather' to Aarey Colony -- and his son ex-Minister Aditya Thackeray. A sad Thackeray publicly appealed, with �folded hands' to Shinde-Fadnavis, not to bring back the Metro car-shed to Aarey Colony forests in the interests of Mumbai and the city's environment.
Eyeing polls, BJP plans to disrupt Opposition parties in states ruled by it
Till now the key objective of �Operation Lotus' is forming the government in opposition ruled states by ensuring defections in the ruling party or alliance. Moving a step further, now the saffron party is also planning �Operation Lotus' in BJP ruled states by ensuring defections with a two third majority from the opposition camp.
Mamata turns BJP model on its head in West Bengal
According to political analysts, the BJP's model of disruption for toppling opposition ruled state governments by attracting opposition MLAs might have worked for the party in states like Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh, but in West Bengal that same model is not working in favour of the saffron camp. Rather, the ruling Trinamool Congress is using the same model of disruption to weaken the BJP in the state.
Charges against Ahmed Patel manufactured & mischievous: Congress
"This is part of the Prime Minister's systematic strategy to absolve himself of any responsibility for the communal carnage unleashed when he was chief minister of Gujarat in 2002. It was his unwillingness and incapacity to control this carnage that had led the-then Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee to remind the chief minister of his rajdharma," Congress General Secretary Jairam Ramesh said.
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