Politics

JP Nadda said the BJP lost the assembly elections in the mineral rich state due to 'political arithmetic' despite garnering the highest number of votes.

Referring to the much-hyped contest for the Bhopal Lok Sabha seat during the general election in 2019, when she defeated Congress veteran Digvijay Singh in her electoral debut, Thakur said that the entire country was keenly interested in the election.

The flooding due to the release of excessive water from Sardar Sarovar Dam forced the Bharuch authorities to shift around 9,500 people to safer places in the last week of August.

Opposition parties including the Congress and the CPI(M) said they will comment on the decision only after they are officially informed about it.

Underlining that the monsoon session is being held in unprecedented circumstances in wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Joshi said officers from ministries would have to come to Parliament if the Question Hour is held and that can make the place crowded.

The 42-year-old journalist who died in Pune on Wednesday did not get a cardiac ambulance in time, his kin have alleged.

Deputy Leader of the Lok Sabha Rajnath Singh has made calls to several top notch leaders of political parties with the likes of Ghulam Nabi Azad, Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary, Farooq Abdullah Sharad Pawar and Derek O'Brien.

While BJP MP Arjun Singh did not comment on the issue and left the venue, local BJP leaders claimed that the TMC activists disrupted a peaceful programme without any provocation.

SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia asked Vidhan Sabha Speaker Rana K P Singh to take note of the risk Congress legislator Zira posed to Chief Minister Amarinder Singh and the entire Vidhan Sabha.

Condoling his demise, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar remembered Rai as a 'sweet natured, soft-spoken and simple' political leader whose death felt to him like a 'personal loss'.

Maharaj, who was returning to Dhanbad by road to take a train to Delhi, was intercepted by the district administration near Pirtand police station and sent on quarantine at Shanti Bhawan ashram, where he had gone to take part in a programme.

The state is yearning for a change in 2021 and the people of Bengal will oust the "corrupt" TMC government, he said.

Delhi BJP Media Cell head Ashok Goel said all the new presidents of 14 district units were appointed after extensive consultation and feedback process.

The Delhi Congress chief said despite opposition from many states as well as from students and their parents, the Centre is not reconsidering its decision, which is unfortunate.

Congress leader Kamal Nath said he has been working to strengthen his party in the last four months and the fight was not with the BJP's achievements, but its organisation.

Stating that he is not greedy for power, Jyotiraditya Scindia said that he had refused the offer as he could foresee the future of the government in the next 15 months.