Ahead of the 2026 Assembly elections, three-time West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s allegation on the addition of names of bogus voters to the state electoral roll may have been refuted by the Election Commission of India, but the controversy is unlikely to end just yet.
The recently concluded Maha Kumbh has not only reinforced Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s political dominance in the state but has also positioned him as a key contender in any post-Narendra Modi succession debate.
The incumbent environment minister needs to develop a concrete action plan to achieve this.
Former Delhi Environment minister Gopal Rai, claiming that the previous AAP government, under Arvind Kejriwal’s leadership, ensured clean air for Delhi to 209 days in the last year from 109 in 2016, said on Sunday that the BJP should take it forward.
Stepping up its attack on the BJP, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday asked the ruling saffron party when it will give Delhi’s women Rs 2,500 as promised in the recently concluded Assembly elections.
It is interesting to note that most non-BJP states are picking up the language issue and appropriating it as a counter to the BJP that appears to be pushing Hindi, which has sparked off a war between Centre and Tamil Nadu that has spilled over into the National Education Policy.
Tamil Nadu shows the path for every state to follow to protect their mother tongue by identifying hegemonic languages and the strategy to escape their clutches, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK president MK Stalin said and vowed to halt Hindi imposition and save mother Tamil.
BJP President and Union Health Minister JP Nadda on Saturday paid obeisance at the sanctum sanctorum of Vaishno Devi shrine. He was accompanied by Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh.
Mayor Firhad Hakim and the councillors of Kolkata Municipal Corporation are soon to hit the ground scrutinising the voters’ list in various wards of the KMC.
A section of Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS)-affiliated leaders and workers in West Bengal have expressed discontent over alleged neglect by some top BJP leaders in the state.
