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Nagpur: Maharashtra's ongoing sand shortage is expected to ease significantly within the next 15 days, revenue minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said on Saturday. The revenue department has readied the auction of 350 sand ghats, while over 500 sand depots have already been made operational across the state, he added. Speaking to the media in Nagpur, Bawankule said that the shortage was temporary and stemmed from the annual three-month ban on sand excavation between June 30 and September 30, impo ...Read More >
Earlier in the day, Udit Raj had claimed that the authorities forcibly threw his belongings out of the bungalow despite a court hearing being scheduled for October 28. Congress leader and former MP Udit Raj on Friday alleged that authorities forcibly evicted his family from their Pandara Park government bungalow in New Delhi despite the matter being sub-judice, claiming it was caste-based "harassment." However, according to sources in the Union Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Raj's wife, ...Read More >
New Delhi [India], October 26 (ANI): Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Priyanka Chaturvedi on Saturday criticised Congress leader Udit Raj for linking the eviction of his government bungalow to caste oppression. She said overstaying in official accommodation should not be framed as a caste issue. In a post on X, Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote, "Overstaying in a sarkari accommodation - for whatever urgent need, and also, moving the court to continue to stay on but when forced to vacate have made it about caste ide ...Read More >
A stalled government medical college in Bihar's Vaishali district, a project championed by former health minister Tej Pratap Yadav, remains incomplete. Now expelled from his family's RJD party, Yadav is testing his personal political clout in the upcoming election with his own party, the Janshakti Janta Dal. The hospital, spread over 20 acres and estimated to cost Rs 462 crore, was designed to house academic blocks, staff quarters, and recreational spaces -- the kind of facility that promised l ...Read More >
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Bihar on October 30 to attend programs in Muzaffarpur and Chhapra, BJP state president Dilip Jaiswal said. Modi has already addressed rallies in Samastipur and Begusarai, launching the NDA's campaign for the November 6 and 11 Assembly elections. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit poll-bound Bihar on October 30 to attend two programmes in Muzaffarpur and Chhapra, said BJP state president Dilip Jaiswal on Saturday. Earlier, Prime Minister Modi visited ...Read More >
Amit Shah NEW DELHI: Union home minister Amit Shah on Saturday took a swipe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, saying that Gandhi could not protect infiltrators by taking out a "Ghuspetiya Bachao Yatra." He was speaking at an election rally in Khagaria, Bihar.Shah referred to Rahul Gandhi's "Vote Adhikar Yatra" held in August and said, "Rahul Gandhi cannot protect infiltrators by taking out 'Ghuspetiya Bachao Yatra'."He also said that serious crimes in Bihar had declined during the NDA's 20-year r ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his Bihar poll campaign by visiting the ancestral village of socialist icon and former CM Karpoori Thakur, Congress on Friday took a swipe at Modi asking is it not an acknowledged fact that Jan Sangh - from which BJP emerged - brought down Thakur's govt in April 1979 when he introduced reservations for OBCs.Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh posted a series of questions on X to attack the PM before his visit to Karpurigram. "Is it not a fact th ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], October 25 (ANI): Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and Mahagathbandhan Chief Minister candidate Tejashwi Yadav on Saturday launched a scathing attack on Prime Minister Narendra Modi following his visit to Bihar, claiming that every single sentence and word of the latter's speech was "negative" and "defamatory" for the state. Speaking to reporters, Tejashwi Yadav accused the Prime Minister of "deceiving" the people of Bihar and alleged that whatever Modi has provided to t ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: With the announcement of Tejashwi Yadav as the chief ministerial candidate for the RJD-led Mahagathbandhan on Thursday, following a prolonged period of uncertainty within the alliance, political attention in Bihar has once again turned towards the electoral significance and decisive consolidation of the Yadav community. However, the number of candidates belonging to the Yadav community who have been dropped or denied tickets by the BJP and JD(U) in the NDA alliance presents a contras ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday began his election campaign in Bihar with a focus on consolidating support among the state's dominant OBCs (Other Backward Classes) and EBCs (Extremely Backward Classes). Addressing a massive rally in Samastipur, the home district of the late socialist leader and former Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur, who was posthumously awarded the Bharat Ratna under the current NDA government, Modi invoked Thakur's political legacy to appeal to Bihar's backwa ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: As Prime Minister Narendra Modi started his Bihar poll campaign by visiting the ancestral village of socialist icon and former CM Karpoori Thakur, Congress on Friday took a swipe at Modi asking is it not an acknowledged fact that Jan Sangh - from which BJP emerged - brought down Thakur's govt in April 1979 when he introduced reservations for OBCs.Congress spokesperson Jairam Ramesh posted a series of questions on X to attack the PM before his visit to Karpurigram. "Is it not a fact th ...Read More >
Prashant Kishor's Jan Suraaj Party is backing independent candidate Anup Kumar Srivastava in Gopalganj. Kishor alleges his party's nominee withdrew due to BJP pressure. Srivastava, a former BJP district president, was allegedly denied a ticket by the BJP. Kishor stated Srivastava is now part of the Jan Suraaj family. The party aims to counter the BJP's alleged tactics. Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor on Friday announced his support for rebel BJP candidate Anup Kumar Srivastava in Bihar ...Read More >
Rahul Gandhi paid floral tributes at a black-and-white-portrait of Kesri, who died in 2000 at the age of 81 After Congress leader Rahul Gandhi paid tribute to former party president Sitaram Kesri on his 25th death anniversary, the BJP alleged that the Leader of Opposition was paying respect due to the upcoming Bihar election. In a post on X, BJP national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla said, "Once upon a time, at instructions of the first family of Congress, Sitaram Kesri was humiliated - his ...Read More >
PATNA: Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched the Bihar Assembly election campaign on Friday from the ancestral village of socialist icon and former chief minister Karpoori Thakur near Samastipur. As the Prime Minister addressed the rally, the Congress took a dig at him, alleging that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and the Jan Sangh had toppled Thakur's government in 1979 over his reservation policy. Congress general secretary in charge of communications Jairam Ramesh raised three questio ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], October 24 (ANI): BJP MP Ravi Kishan on Friday predicted that the NDA will secure more than 179 seats in the upcoming Bihar assembly polls on November 6 and November 11. While speaking with ANI, he said, "NDA will get more than 170 seats. Such a historic victory will be unprecedented." Earlier today, Prime Minister Narendra Modi remembered former Congress president Sitaram Kesri on his death anniversary and accused the Congress leadership of insulting him. PM Modi said ...Read More >
Patna (Bihar) [India], October 24 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party MP Praveen Khandelwal on Friday called the people of Bihar "wise" who are going to vote the NDA to power in the Bihar assembly polls scheduled on November 6 and November 11. The BJP leader also highlighted Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mantra of "Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas, Sabka Prayas" and claimed that the latter has been working for the welfare of everyone across the country. Also Read | Jammu and Kashmir Rajya Sabha Elections R ...Read More >
Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday blazed through poll-bound Bihar with back-to-back rallies in Samastipur and Begusarai districts, calling upon voters to keep at bay the opposition RJD-Congress combine led by "people out on bail" and predicting a record-breaking victory for the NDA. The PM also sought to underscore the contrast between a fractious INDIA bloc and the cohesive BJP-led coalition, which included Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's JD(U), Lok Janshakti Party and Hindusta ...Read More >
Begusarai (Bihar) [India], October 24 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday remembered former Congress president Sitaram Kesri on his death anniversary and accused the Congress leadership of insulting him. PM Modi said the country will never forget how the Congress family humiliated Kesri, who was from Bihar, by allegedly locking him in a bathroom and removing him from the post of party president. He added the incident shows how Congress sidelines Dalits and backward class leaders for t ...Read More >
New Delhi: In a politically significant move, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday paid tributes to former Congress chief Sitaram Kesri on his 25th death anniversary at the party's national headquarters at 24, Akbar Road in New Delhi. As Kesri belonged to the extremely backward groups in Bihar, Rahul's attempts to revive the memories of the former party chief, who was removed from the post unceremoniously in 1998 after a gap of 25 years, prompted many to link the move to the November ass ...Read More >
Samastipur/Begusarai, Oct 24 (PTI) Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday launched his Bihar assembly poll campaign with back-to-back rallies in Samastipur and Begusarai districts, asserting that the NDA under Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will break all previous electoral records. The PM also called the INDIA bloc a "mahalathbandhan" (a tie-up in which people beat each other with sticks), a mocking reference to 'Mahagathbandhan' or grand alliance, as the opposition coalition is commonly known. H ...Read More >
Patna/Begusarai: Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi will kick off his Bihar election campaign with two back-to-back rallies on Friday, addressing the people of Samastipur and Begusarai, while Union home minister Amit Shah is scheduled to hold separate meetings in Siwan and Buxar the same day. Shah has already addressed a rally at Taraiya in Saran on Oct 17.The first phase of the assembly elections is scheduled for Nov 6, followed by the second phase on Nov 11 and the results will be declared on N ...Read More >
Bihar polls: PM Modi, CM Nitish Kumar visit Karpoori Gram, pay tribute Patna: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday visited Karpoori Gram, the birthplace of Bharat Ratna Jan Nayak Karpoori Thakur, and paid floral tributes to the late leader. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar accompanied the Prime Minister during the visit. Both leaders garlanded Karpoori Thakur's statue and visited the Karpoori Thakur Library, where they viewed a collection of rare photographs depicting key moments from the former ...Read More >
Samastipur (Bihar) [India], October 24 (ANI): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday paid homage to Bharat Ratna Karpoori Thakur in Bihar's Samastipur district, and he later met his family members. Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was also present. Also Read | Gold Rate Today, October 24: Gold Price Dips From Historic Highs Amid Global Selling Pressure, Check Prices of Yellow Metal in Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata and Other Metro Cities. Karpuri Thakur, a prominent socialist leader and former Ch ...Read More >
The ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Bihar seems to have recalibrated its political playbook ahead of the assembly elections, shifting from an earlier focus on social engineering to reinforcing its traditional bastions. According to a TOI report, the most visible sign of this strategic shift lies in the drastic reduction of Yadav candidates by the alliance's key partners, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal (United) (JD(U)). In a marked contrast to the 2020 polls, t ...Read More >
Mukesh Sahani has been named the Deputy Chief Ministerial candidate for the Mahagathbandhan in poll bound Bihar, parties representing the Opposition bloc announced on Thursday. The alliance, which includes the RJD, Congress, Left parties, and Sahani's Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP), has already picked Tejashwi Yadav as its Chief Ministerial face. Sahani's selection could be seen as a strategic move to consolidate support among Bihar's fisherman and other backward communities and strengthen the a ...Read More >
NEW DELHI: Ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to the birthplace of socialist icon Karpoori Thakur, the Congress on Friday took a swipe at the PM and asked whether it is not an acknowledged fact that the Jan Sangh brought down Thakur's government in Bihar in April 1979 when the-then CM introduced reservation for OBCs. The opposition party also asked whether it is not a fact that the PM and his "trouble-engine sarkar" in the state did nothing to provide protection to Bihar's 65% reserv ...Read More >
BENGALURU: Chief Minister Siddaramaiah's son Dr Yathindra's statement that PWD minister Satish Jarkiholi deserved to be the ideological heir of his father who championed the cause of AHINDA (minorities, backward classes and the Dalits) has created ripples within the Congress. It has been interpreted as a counter to RDPR minister and IT/BT Minister Priyank Kharge, who has shown signs of championing the AHINDA cause, albeit on ideological ground, taking on RSS. Some Congress sympathisers say Pri ...Read More >
Davangere (Karnataka) [India], October 24 (ANI): Congress MLA Shivaganga Basavaraj on Thursday criticised Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah's son, Yathindra, for suggesting his father is nearing the end of his political career and hinting at Public Works Minister Satish Jarkiholi as a potential successor. Speaking to mediapersons, Basavaraj has slammed Yathindra's statement, calling it "childish" and emphasising that the party's high command will decide on leadership, not individual family members. "C ...Read More >
Lucknow: Citing the mob lynching of a Dalit man in Rae Bareli and a case of Dalit elderly who was forced to lick his urine in Lucknow as examples, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said that "feudal forces enjoying protection of the BJP govt have added to atrocities, injustice and crime against Dalits in UP.The former UP CM described such incidents as attempts to humiliate the PDA community, comprising Pichde (backward classes), Dalits and slpsankhyaks (minorities) who have come t ...Read More >
Patna, Oct 23 (PTI) The opposition INDIA bloc on Thursday declared RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav its chief ministerial candidate for Bihar assembly polls, in what is being seen as a last-ditch effort to put an end to squabbles and project unity ahead of the elections. Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot, who has been camping in Patna since Wednesday to iron out differences with the RJD, said the decision had the approval of Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and senior leader Rahul Gandhi. Addr ...Read More >
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