Sena battle for Mumbai last up as LS poll race is set to conclude in Maharashtra
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Punjab BJP chief Sunil Jakhar: ‘Farmer protests largely scripted. AAP, Congress trying to deny us right to campaign’
For the first time since 1996, the BJP will contest the June 1 Lok Sabha elections in Punjab alone and not in alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD). Helming the party’s affairs in the state is former Congress leader Sunil Jakhar who seemingly has his task cut out as the party’s candidates face backlash from farmers in a state where the BJP has yet to make inroads. In mostly rural areas of the state, protesters have stopped BJP candidates from campaigning.
‘CBI, ED should be shut… where is the need for them? Will propose it to INDIA parties’: Akhilesh Yadav
Departments like the Enforcement Directorate and CBI are not needed and should be shut down, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has said, adding that he would propose the same to the INDIA bloc.
From 800 km away, dark horse Engineer Rashid unsettles the Baramulla race
As Abrar Rashid raises the slogan “Tihar ka badla (The revenge for Tihar)…”, over 500 men and women respond with a resounding “Vote se (By vote)”. “Zulm ka badla (The revenge for injustice)…,” he says, and they respond, “Vote se”. “Jail ka badla”… “Vote se”.
‘Justice for Hemant’ her theme song, Kalpana Soren strikes a chord beyond tribal base, enthuses JMM
At a wedding resort “Utsav Upvan” at Giridih in Jharkhand on Thursday night, the reporters are making a beeline to interview Kalpana Soren, wife of jailed Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) executive president and ex-chief minister Hemant Soren, who is making her electoral debut from the Gandey Assembly constituency.
Youth Congress leader makes former CM Khattar sweat in Karnal battle, with a little help from Hooda
In January 2018, a youth Congress leader named Divyanshu Budhiraja along with few other students raised slogans against the then Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar when he was making his way to a college principal’s office in Panchkula after attending an event there. They were all clad in black, and were raising slogans on rising unemployment.
In UP’s Bundelkhand, safety net in place, labharthis ask for more: jobs, vacancies, exams on time
Over the past 10 years, the Narendra Modi government has knit a net of welfare schemes that, at their widest, provide a cushion to around 22 crore families. This “labharthi varg” has paid rich dividends for the BJP in successive elections, prompting Opposition parties to promise and implement their own basket of schemes.
This election, BJP will break certain myths that will surprise everyone… PM Modi has immense blessings of people from east to west, north to south: J P Nadda
Amid the hectic campaign for the seven-phased Lok Sabha elections, J P Nadda, President, Bharatiya Janata Party, spoke to The Indian Express at his official residence in New Delhi on a range of issues.