Kuldeep Bishnoi left out in the cold in the political shake-up in Haryana
The Bishnoi family seems to be the biggest loser following the political shake-up in Haryana and the subsequent announcement of candidates for theLok Sabha polls by the BJP.
Sukhbir Siwach in political news
Decode Politics: How Congress veteran Kiran Choudhry’s switch to BJP may play out in Haryana ahead of polls
Days after a below-par performance in the Lok Sabha elections in Haryana, the state BJP got a shot in the arm as Tosham MLA and ex-minister Kiran Choudhry and her daughter Shruti Choudhry, one of the working presidents of the state Congress, joined the ruling party on Wednesday. Both Kiran and Shruti had resigned from the Congress on Tuesday.
From Haryana, former CM Manohar Lal Khattar, royal scion Rao Inderjit Singh set to be Union ministers
Former chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar and Gurgaon MP-elect Rao Inderjit Singh are two Haryana BJP leaders who are likely to be inducted as Union ministers when the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government’s council of ministers takes oath on Sunday.
JJP stares at wipeout, all 10 candidates set to forfeit deposits
The leads of the Lok Sabha polls seem to be spelling doom for former Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala’s Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), which looks set to forfeit deposits in all 10 seats.
Wrong caste, inflated income: How Haryana’s family ID scheme has become a poll issue
At Badopatti village on the Hisar-Ambala National Highway, Rohtas Guri talks about how he had to spend three-four days just to get details in his ‘Parivar Pehchan Patra’ corrected.
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 Kurukshetra, BJP’s Naveen Jindal faces farm anger mixed with ‘fears about Constitution’
“Loktantra khatre mein hai, ye loktantra bachaane ki ladai hai (Democracy is in danger, and this election is a fight to save it),” says Mahavir Lamba, a 36-year-old farmer from Lamba Kheri village of Kaithal district in Haryana.
Amid the fast-moving changes in Haryana, an old hand: Bhupinder Singh Hooda
“Saari batein aapko batani zaroori nahin hain (It’s not necessary to tell you everything),” says former Haryana chief minister and Congress Legislature Party leader Bhupinder Singh Hooda when asked if more MLAs on the BJP side are in touch with him.
3 Independents cross sides, Haryana BJP govt teeters ahead of Lok Sabha polls
Just over a fortnight to go for the Lok Sabha elections in Haryana, three Independent MLAs withdrew their support to the BJP government in the state and extended “outside” support to the Congress.