Union Minister for Tourism and Culture Gajendra Singh Shekhawat hit back at former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot for the latter's remarks about banning the BJP, saying, "One can only dream of imposing a ban on the BJP; it is now the largest party in the world".
If all goes as planned, Prime Minister Narendra Modi could give a green signal to at least three railway projects in West Bengal during his two-day visit to the state on 20 and 21 June.
Former Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot has sparked a major controversy, accusing the BJP of pursuing communal politics, and claiming that former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi would have banned the saffron party if she were alive today.
Bharatiya Janata Party’s Siliguri organisational district president Arun Mandal has urged Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari to take up a series of ambitious development initiatives aimed at transforming north Bengal into a major economic and employment hub.
Senior BJP leader Sanjay Tandon held a detailed interaction with a delegation of aspiring candidates seeking the expeditious completion of the appointment process for Chandigarh JBT and TGT recruitment.
The CPI-M has also fielded Sabina Yasmin, the mother of Class V student Tamanna Sheikh, who was killed allegedly during a bypoll victory celebration last year, from Kaliganj in Nadia.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee has warned TMC candidate and sitting Jamuria MLA Hare Ram Singh to ensure that his son stops using a vehicle fitted with a red beacon.
He has been assigned the role of First Polling Officer for election duty, and an official letter summoning him for training has already been issued. The training programme is scheduled to span two days.
There is an ineffable poignancy in recalling how Apu and Durga, in Pather Panchali, wandered through kaash fields and village paths in search of the elusive Nilkantha bird (Indian Roller), glimpsed more as a promise than a certainty in their impoverished yet wonder-struck childhood.
In a constitutional democracy, citizenship is meant to be the most stable fact about a person’s political existence.
