PM Modi also extended birthday wishes to Sri Sri Ravi Shankar and said he hoped to attend the spiritual leader’s centenary celebrations in the future.
He further alleged that the Congress had repeatedly abandoned alliance partners whenever political equations changed, citing its relationship with the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam in Tamil Nadu.
The oath-taking ceremony is expected to be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as the chief guest, along with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, senior Union Ministers and Chief Ministers from BJP-ruled states.
Tamil Nadu’s newest superstar chief minister can now neither evade scrutiny nor the spotlight that comes with accountability and probity related to public life; Can Vijay pull off an MGR in Tamil Nadu?
Tamil Nadu Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar has directed the new government to prove its majority on or before May 13, setting the stage for intense political activity inside the Assembly.
Motherhood has perhaps suffered more from sentimentality than any other human experience. Across generations, mothers have been sculpted into impossible abstractions of sacrifice and virtue until they cease to resemble living women at all.
The Sunday before Kolkata went to the polls Dola Mitra, Statesman Features Editor did an impromptu interview of Dr Swapan Dasgupta, BJP candidate from the Rashebehari constituency, who of course, won the seat. At that time when she asked, “In case BJP comes to power in the state”….he had said “Not Âin caseÊ but ÂwhenÊ BJP comes to power in the state.” He was right.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday performed a “sashtanga pranam” before the people of West Bengal at the Brigade Parade Ground during the oath-taking ceremony of the state’s first BJP government.
Kshudiram Tudu, who took oath as a minister in the ninth state Cabinet on Saturday, has long been associated with Burdwan as a schoolteacher.
In another development, sources in the know claimed that on Monday, the rest of the ministers of Cabinet are likely to take oath and the first Cabinet meeting is also likely at the Assembly, which had been spruced up for the purpose.
