BJP appoints Samik new Bengal president, rumblings remain
In a unanimous decision reached on Wednesday, BJP’s West Bengal unit appointed Rajya Sabha MP and party’s chief spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya as its new state president.
In a unanimous decision reached on Wednesday, BJP’s West Bengal unit appointed Rajya Sabha MP and party’s chief spokesperson Samik Bhattacharya as its new state president.
Councillors from the opposition AAP on Thursday dumped garbage outside the office of Mayor Raja Iqbal to register their protest against the failure of the ruling BJP in managing the city's sanitation facilities.
Tamil Nadu BJP’s state president Nainar Nagendran, state general secretary AP Muruganandam, and others will be in attendance and share the dais with EPS at Mettupalayam.
The statement comes amid the BJP government defending the move and calling it a necessary step in its ongoing pollution control efforts.
Assam, once considered the cradle of regional political assertion in India, is now witnessing a slow erosion of its regional parties’ relevance.
BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Friday took a swipe at West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, stating that she should have been prepared for the protest she faced during her address at Kellogg College, Oxford University, as the world is aware of the situation of the state.
On a call given by the BJP State President Rajeev Bindal, party workers converged to protest alleging lawlessness in the state.
The BJP on Thursday demanded strict action against Samajwadi Party leader and Rajya Sabha MP Ramji Lal Suman for calling 16th-century Rajput king Rana Sanga a "traitor", leading to widespread protests.
Following Delhi Assembly Speaker Vijender Gupta’s refusal to allow a discussion on the city's law and order situation, Leader of Opposition (LoP) Atishi slammed the move, calling it an attempt to shield the failures of the BJP's "double engine government".
The BJP on Thursday organized a statewide shutdown in Jharkhand to protest the daylight murder of its leader and former district council member, Anil Mahato, also known as Tiger.