A diplomat’s debut: In tough Amritsar seat for BJP, ex-US Ambassador treads moderate line, talks development
It was an unusual start to the day for a BJP candidate to hug his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) rival at a mosque to extend Eid-ul-Fitr wishes.
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Decode Politics: Why a ‘Chandigarh vision document’ stirred up old tensions in Punjab?
THE PROPOSAL of INDIA bloc’s Chandigarh candidate, Manish Tewari, that the joint Punjab and Haryana capital be made a “city-state” was one of the issues that drew fire from politicians in Punjab across party lines during the elections.
‘Haath has picked up the jhadu’: Manish Tewari makes a Congress-AAP pitch for Chandigarh
Dressed in a white T-shirt and tracksuit, Manish Tewari briskly walks along Chandigarh’s Sukhna Lake at 6.45 am, greeting people out on their morning walk with a firm handshake.
After pulling off Himachal upset in Rajya Sabha election, BJP guns for Sukhu govt: ‘Will meet Governor in the morning’
High drama unfolded in Himachal Pradesh on Tuesday as the BJP pulled off an upset by defeating the Congress’s Abhishek Manu Singhvi in the Rajya Sabha elections because of cross-voting by six of the party’s MLAs. While the BJP called on the Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu government to step down, saying it had “lost the mandate and trust”, the CM dismissed the claim.
From the Urdu Press: ‘Cong, SP, AAP tie-ups signal all is not lost in INDIA camp’, ‘In Ajit Pawar’s Muslim outreach, a message to BJP’
Lurching from crisis to crisis, the Opposition INDIA alliance seemed to have finally got a breather over the week as some of its key partners, including the Congress, Samajwadi Party (SP) and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), sealed their seat-sharing deals for the Lok Sabha polls in several states after weeks of tense negotiations and hard bargaining. The alliance has yet to get their act together in crucial states like West Bengal and Maharashtra though, where its constituents continue to be on a collision course. All these happenings made it to the front pages of the Urdu dailies as they step up their coverage of the grand electoral battle round the corner.
Haryana Seat Sharing: AAP banks on its Punjab power as it gears up to battle BJP in Kurukshtera
The Aam Aadmi Party was looking to contest three seats in Haryana, but had to eventually settle for one — Kurukshetra — in the arrangement that it finalised with the Congress for the Lok Sabha elections. The Congress will contest the remaining nine seats in the state, but, as things stand the battle for Kurkushetra will likely be an interesting one.
In Haryana, key Congress faces missing from LS list; Hooda, Selja leave it to high command
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.
Today in Politics: In INDIA bloc’s litmus test, AAP-Cong vs BJP in Chandigarh; Kejriwal set to skip ED’s fourth call
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has asked Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to appear before it Thursday for questioning in connection with the alleged Delhi excise policy scam after he skipped the agency’s summonses thrice in the case earlier.
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