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.
At a time when speculation is rife that Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar could be playing ball with the BJP—given his recent actions like attending a religious function in Coimbatore where Union Home Minister Amit Shah was also present—the Karnataka BJP leadership has begun fishing in troubled Congress waters.
A day after its expansion, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s cabinet witnessed a high-profile reshuffle on Thursday marking a significant shift in the portfolios allotted earlier to senior ministers.
BJP MLA from Najafgarh, Neelam Pahalwan on Thursday submitted a proposal in the Delhi Assembly to rename the constituency to Nahargarh, claiming that the original name of the area lying in south west Delhi was altered by the Mughals.
The opposition Congress remained absent in the Rajasthan Assembly on Thursday over the deadlock following satirical reference on former prime minister late Indira Gandhi by a minister and subsequent suspension of six MLAs last week.
Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and KPCC President DK Shivakumar has strongly denied speculation about his alleged proximity to the BJP, calling it “propaganda.”
