Tag: BJP

Sack ‘favourite’ Min if you can’t arrest him, BJP to Akhilesh

BJP UP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya on March 5 attacked Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, saying that if he cannot get his "favourite" minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati arrested in the rape case, he should at least sack him. Maurya, whose comments come a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi accused the SP-Congress combine of chanting "Gayatri …

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March 5, 2017

Five Indian cities shine in Centre’s Smart City Mission

Nagpur, Indore, Surat, Vadodara and Udaipur have emerged among the top cities outperforming other cities in India in the Centre's Smart City mission.  Ahead of the completion of two years of the mission in June, these cities have achieved an Investment Conversion Ratio (ICR) of 90 per cent and above, according to an analysis of …

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March 5, 2017

Delhi budget session: BJP to corner AAP over poll promises

The opposition BJP will focus on the unfulfilled promises made by the AAP government to corner it during Delhi assembly's budget session beginning March 6. The BJP MLAs have prepared a list of issues related to education, health, women security, depleted fleet of DTC buses, Mohalla Clinics, among others, that they will raise during the …

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March 4, 2017

BJP’s internal strife reaches Haryana Assembly

Facing heat from several of its legislators raising a banner of revolt over the alleged step-motherly treatment of their respective constituencies, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government in Haryana faced more embarrassment on Friday with the Opposition taking potshots at the ruling party by raising the issue in the on-going Budget Session of the Assembly. Even many of …

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March 3, 2017

BJP, ABVP party of goons: Kejriwal

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday accused the ruling BJP at the Centre of being a "party of goons" and said last week's violent students clashes in Delhi University has got parents worried about their wards. "The BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) and the ABVP are the party of goons and rowdies. Whoever opposes RSS …

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March 3, 2017

‘Confident that Sena-BJP will join hands in Mumbai’

With just a day left for filing of nominations for the Mumbai mayoral poll, a senior state BJP leader on Friday said he is confident that his party and Shiv Sena will come together to govern India's richest civic body. "I am 200 per cent sure that BJP and Shiv Sena will join hands in …

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March 3, 2017

BJP will be clean bowled in UP: Lalu

RJD chief Lalu Prasad on Thursday said the BJP will be "clean bowled" in the assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, just like in the Bihar elections last year. Lalu said he fully understands the pulse of the people. "BJP will be cleaned bowled in assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh like Bihar. Samajwadi Party and Congress …

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March 2, 2017

‘Dog scare’ calls attention of HP assembly

The scare of stray dogs echoed in Himachal Pradesh assembly on Thursday. Even as a senior BJP member from Kullu Maheshwar Singh asked the government to declare dogs as ‘vermin’ like monkeys in HP and allow the people to shoot them, Urban Development minister, Sudhir Sharma rejected it. The minister said that the dogs live …

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March 2, 2017

PM’s jibe at Rahul over ‘coconut juice’ remark

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday took a jibe at Congress leader Rahul Gandhi for his "coconut juice" and "potato factory" remarks. "There is a Congress leader, and I want to pray for his long life…he recently went to Manipur to address an election rally. There he told farmers that he would extract juice from …

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March 1, 2017

Ruckus in Assembly after Bihar minister asks crowd to hit Modi’s photo with shoes

Angry Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members on Wednesday created ruckus in the Bihar assembly after a senior minister in the ruling Nitish Kumar government was caught on camera asking the crowd to beat the photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with shoes at a public function. The minister in question, Abdul Jalil Mastan, who holds …

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March 1, 2017

Ruckus in Assembly after Bihar minister asks crowd to hit Modi’s photo with shoes

Angry Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) members on Wednesday created ruckus in the Bihar assembly after a senior minister in the ruling Nitish Kumar government was caught on camera asking the crowd to beat the photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with shoes at a public function. The minister in question, Abdul Jalil Mastan, who holds …

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March 1, 2017

Politics over unemployed youths in Himachal Pradesh

The Congress government in Himachal Pradesh is in a fix over the poll promise of monthly ‘unemployment allowance’ to the unemployed youths that the party made during the 2012 Assembly elections. Even as the opposition BJP is all set to take up the issue in the budget session of the state Assembly beginning March 1 here, rejecting …

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February 28, 2017

Not fielding Muslims in UP a mistake: Uma Bharti

Union minister Uma Bharti on Monday said the BJP made "a huge mistake" by not fielding any Muslim candidate in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. "I am really feeling sorry that we could not field a Muslim. I spoke with (BJP President) Amit Shah and (state party President) Keshav Prasad Maurya about how we could have …

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February 27, 2017

Not fielding Muslims in UP a mistake: Uma Bharti

Union minister Uma Bharti on Monday said the BJP made "a huge mistake" by not fielding any Muslim candidate in the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. "I am really feeling sorry that we could not field a Muslim. I spoke with (BJP President) Amit Shah and (state party President) Keshav Prasad Maurya about how we could have …

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February 27, 2017

BJP will get clear majority in UP polls: Nirmala Sitharaman

Buoyed by BJP's good show in civic polls in various states post note ban, Union Commerce Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Monday exuded confidence that her party will form government with full majority in Uttar Pradesh. Voting is on Monday for the fifth phase of polling in Uttar Pradesh's 51 assembly constituencies covering 11 districts. "BJP …

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February 27, 2017

BJP wants to double farmers’ income: PM Modi

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the Union government is undertaking measures for welfare of famers and the aim is to double their income by 2022. “We are undertaking measures for welfare of our farmer brothers and sisters,” Modi said in a rally in Mau (Uttar Pradesh), adding, “We want their incomes to double …

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February 27, 2017

SP, BSP know they would be defeated by BJP: PM Modi

Requesting the Uttar Pradesh (UP) electorate to vote in large numbers for the fifth phase, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday said the Bharatiya Janata Party is capable of winning majority in the state. “Today (Monday) is fifth phase of UP elections is happening and I request all the voters to vote in this festival …

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February 27, 2017