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Setting clear targets for the BJP in the countdown to the elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday that party workers should see a target of 370 Lok Sabha seats as their tribute to Jana Sangh founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee, and not just as a number.
The largest share of was sold in Mumbai, since the inception of the donation scheme to political parties in 2018. However, most of the bonds were encashed in Delhi during the period.
A “surprise” lunch with Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Parliament canteen in New Delhi last week, as the 17th Lok Sabha headed to a close, has landed Revolutionary Socialist Party (RSP) Kollam MP N K Premachandran in the middle of a slugfest in his home state of Kerala.
The curtain came down on the 17th Lok Sabha with the battle lines firmly drawn. In his final speeches in both Houses of Parliament, Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a trenchant criticism of the main Opposition Congress, framing the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as a contest between the BJP and the grand old party andtheir visions and track records. The Congress hit back, even as the party finds itselflurching from crisis to crisis. These stories made headlines in the Urdu dailies. What however dominated their coverage was thepassage of the Uniform Civil Code (UCC) Bill in Uttarakhand, with the dailies keeping the spotlight on the growing concerns and anxieties of the Muslim community over the contentious legislation.
None of the Congress candidates who had contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections for the 10 seats in Haryana figure in the list of 299 applicants who have applied to the party high command to contest the upcoming elections, as the party begins its process of shortlisting candidates.
Amid proceedings in the Rajya Sabha on Thursday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi surprised several people in both the Treasury benches and the Opposition when he thanked outgoing Rajya Sabha MP Manmohan Singh, his predecessor, for “guiding the House” and the country. Calling Singh a “shining example” of what an MP should be, Modi said the former PM even came to the Upper House in “a wheelchair to help strengthen democracy”.
With speculation rife that his party may return to the NDA fold ahead of the simultaneous Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, Telugu Desam Party chief N Chandrababu Naidu arrived in New Delhi on Wednesday. He was expected to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda either later on Wednesday or Thursday.
A day after West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee issued a threat that she will sit on dharna in Kolkata from February 2 if the BJP-led Union government does not clear the state's dues by February 1, state Governor CV Ananda Bose said all dues of West Bengal will be cleared by the Centre provided the state government meets the requirements laid down by the Centre.