Politics

In many ways, the 2019 battle for Bijnor will provide the first primer on social acceptability and cohesion for the SP-BSP and RLD alliance.

The BJP’s saffron t-shirts with pictures and catchy phrases by Prime Minister Narendra Modi are selling a lot more than they did during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

The BJP has so far announced candidates for all the Lok Sabha seats which will go to polls in the first four phases of the seven-phase election.

The BJP has not fielded many of its veterans, including former presidents LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi, in the Lok Sabha elections. There is speculation that Sumitra Mahajan may also not be renominated.

While Modi was seen criticising the Congress, Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar in the same rally enlisted the achievements of NDA in the state.

India will exert so much pressure and take so many measures that Pakistan will be forced to act to stop and spreading terror activities from its soil, Rajnath Singh warned.

The Nishad Party was formed in 2016 to empower Nishads, Kewats, Binds and other communities, whose livelihoods are dependent on rivers. Members of these communities are mostly boatmen or fishermen and are demanding schedule caste status.

Following the widespread protests over the death of militant commander Burhan Wani, then CM Mehbooba Mufti in a press conference had said, “Those kids killed in Kashmir hadn't gone to buy milk and toffee."

Alleging that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had made the false promise of depositing Rs 15 lakh in the bank accounts of the poor, he said Congress has announced the 'Nyuntam Aay Yojana' (NYAY) to ensure that the poor live with dignity.

Jitin Prasada won his first Lok Sabha election from Shahjahanpur in 2004. In the next elections in 2009, he shifted to the newly-formed Dhaurahra constituency and won.

Mehboob Mufti in a tweet said she hopes Hussain will work as tirelessly for Jammu and Kashmir as he worked to ensure justice for the Kathua rape victim.

The couple also expressed confidence that as a son of late YS Rajasekhara Reddy, Jagan will work well as the state’s chief minister if elected.

Amit Shah also claimed that the BJP was on its way to not just performing well in Odisha but would also form the next government in the state.

To pick a candidate like Rahul Gandhi against the Left means that the Congress is going to target the Left in Kerala, Praksah Karat said.

Faesal, along with other senior party leaders including former PDP minister Javaid Mustafa Mir, reached winter capital Jammu on a three-day visit on Saturday to garner support for his newly floated party.

TDP national spokesperson Dinakar Lanka said the Narendra Modi government failed to give bullet-proof vehicles to the CRPF which could have prevented the attack on a paramilitary convoy on February 14 in which 40 personnel were killed.