Pradhan’s resignation shifts focus to Harjot Bains as Congress raises pressure in Punjab
Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa said the resignation showed that sustained public pressure could force accountability.
Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa said the resignation showed that sustained public pressure could force accountability.
Senior BJP leader and BJP National Council member Sanjay Tandon, reacting to the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the NEET issue, said that "the Education Minister's decision to resign reflects Prime Minister Narendra Modi's commitment to accountability, transparency and the dignity of the youth."
PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti on Saturday said India’s youth had “risen to the occasion” by defeating politics of division, while JKPCC chief Tariq Hameed Karra termed the Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation a triumph of truth and democratic resistance.
The Tricolour was waved, sweets were distributed, and firecrackers were burst at several places across Madhya Pradesh following the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan on Saturday.
Joshi is currently the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, and New and Renewable Energy.
The Bhopal Police on Wednesday arrested an absconding murder accused after a brief encounter in the Kerwa forest area in the Ratibad region on the outskirts of the state capital.
The Jammu and Kashmir Assembly has been witnessing a rare unanimous show of anger, with even legislators of the BJP joining the ruling National Conference (NC) in expressing strong annoyance over what they termed the bureaucracy’s casual approach towards House proceedings.
Even as the deadline for filing nominations for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections draws to a close on Monday, with only a three-day window remaining, both the Congress and the BJP, part of the DMK and the AIADMK-led NDA fronts, respectively, are dragging their feet in releasing their candidate lists.
This fourth list of transfers last night affected change of the collectors in 25 of the total 41 districts, including the capital district of Jaipur.
Kumar pointed out that the proposed changes were fundamentally anti-democratic, seeking to vest sweeping and opaque powers in the central executive to take over and control institutions, assets, and activities of organisations, many of them run by minority communities.
