Narendra Modi

Election Commission data revealed that nearly 500 new political parties registered with the poll panel between April 2019 and August 2021. As per the EC data, the number of unrecognised political parties has increased from 2,301 to 2,796 during the above period, recording a jump of over 20 per cent. As per the Election Commission, there were 694 such parties in 2001. In two decades, the growth in registration of such parties has been 300%.

"He announced plans to upgrade 14,500 schools which is a good step. But there are 10 lakh government schools in the country. In this way, it will take more than a hundred years to fix all the schools. You are requested to make a plan to fix all ten lakhs schools together," said CM Arvind Kejriwal while sharing the letter in a tweet.

The posters put up on cooking gas cylinders carried Modi's photographs along with price of each cylinder Rs 1,105. The TRS took the jibe at the Prime Minister over the massive hike in the price of cooking gas during the last eight years. The TRS leaders pointed out that the price of LPG was only Rs 410 in 2014 when Modi became the Prime Minister.

Chief Minister Vijayan has been accompanying the Prime Minister who has been attending a few programmes at Kochi since Thursday. Vijayan himself shared it on social media, which has started getting a lot of traction. It was on September 2, 1979, that Vijayan and Kamala, then a teacher at St. Joseph School, Tellicherry got married.

PM Modi is scheduled to reach Mangaluru at 2 p.m. and inaugurate, lay foundation stones for projects worth Rs 3,800 crore. The PM will then address a public rally for which the party leaders are making all-out efforts to gather a massive crowd.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited his Cabinet colleague and Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal's residence late on Wednesday on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi. "On the auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, went to the programme at my colleague @PiyushGoyal Ji's residence," Modi tweeted later on his visit. "May the blessings of Bhagwan Shri Ganesh always remain upon us," the Prime Minister said in another tweet.

Speaking on Monday during the release of a book, 'The Architect of the New BJP: How Narendra Modi Transformed the Party', written by seasoned journalist Ajay Singh who is currently the press secretary to the President, the Defence Minister also praised the Prime Minister's governance and organisational strengths. He said that Prime Minister has "no parallel in contemporary politics".

Ghulam Nabi Azad was responding to the allegation levelled against him by the Congress leaders, who had said that "Azad has been Modi-fied' and will join the BJP". He said, "The party is full of illiterates, specially those who are working on clerical posts. Those who know J&K, I can't increase one vote of BJP."

With Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, Governor Banwarilal Purohit, Congress MP Manish Tewari and his cabinet colleague Jitendra Singh sharing the dais, Modi, who was given a rousing reception by party workers and supporters amid slogans of "Jai Shri Ram" and "Modi, Modi", said, "When the people of India will get modern hospitals and facilities for treatment, then they will get well sooner and their energy will be channelled in the right direction."

As advocate Shadan Farasat orally mentioned the matter before a bench headed by Chief Justice, he said he had constituted a bench led by Justice Chandrachud. On May 6, the Supreme Court referred to a constitution bench the power tussle between the Centre and the Delhi government, in connection with control over administrative services.