Tag: Lok Sabha elections

FY 2023-24: Pre-Budget meetings to commence on October 10

"Pre-budget meetings chaired by the secretary (Expenditure) shall commence on October 10, 2022," the Budget Division of the Department of Economic Affairs said.

September 8, 2022

BJP plan to cash in on Gyanvapi issue in LS polls to the fore

Be it Kashi’s Gyanvapi mosque, or the ruins of the Sun Temple spread in the Kashmir Valley, all are ready to come back to life like Ram Mandir and Kashi Vishwanath),” reads a resolution passed by the party at a two-day meet in Patna.

June 2, 2022

Sushma Swaraj moves out of her official residence in Delhi’s Safdarjung Lane

Swaraj did not contest the recent Lok Sabha elections due to health reasons

June 29, 2019

Magical figures

The everchanging economic statistics being bandied about give one the feeling of having strayed in Alice's Wonderland; nothing is what it appears to be and the shape and size of all things is variable. Mark Twain once said: ‘Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.‘ For most of us, if we have better governance, we would not care about what species of statistics are dished out to us.

June 27, 2019

Congress workers to gather outside Rahul Gandhi’s residence today to demand he stays

Sheila Dikshit, the former Chief Minister of Delhi, and hundreds of Delhi Congress workers would be gathering outside the residence of Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday late afternoon.

May 29, 2019

BJP trying to bring down Kamal Nath government, claims BSP MLA

“They (BJP) are making offers to everyone, only fools will come under their influence. I get phone calls offering both minister berth and money but I have denied the offers. They are offering Rs 50-60 crore to a number of people," said Ramabai.

May 27, 2019

RJD MLA demands resignation of Tejashwi Yadav

Maheshwar Yadav, the MLA from Gaighat in Muzaffarpur, said on Monday that Tejashwi should step down as the Leader of Opposition in Bihar Assembly.

May 27, 2019

Congress requests media, others to ‘respect sanctity’ of CWC’s closed door meeting

“Congress party expects everyone, including media, to respect the sanctity of a closed door meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC). Various conjectures, speculations, insinuations, assumptions, gossip and rumour mongering in a section of the media is uncalled for and unwarranted,” said the statement.

May 27, 2019

‘Got it loud and clear’, Smriti Irani on Rahul Gandhi’s Amethi message

Smriti Irani responded to Rahul’s message during her visit to Amethi when she told reporters, "I have got the message loud and clear. To the person who gave me the message, I would like to say that I have received the message."

May 27, 2019

Model code of conduct ceases to be in operation with immediate effect: EC

The model code of conduct came into force on March 10 when the Election Commission (EC) had announced the dates for the general elections for the 17th Lok Sabha.

May 26, 2019

Mamata Banerjee offers to resign as Chief Minister of West Bengal

Banerjee convened an emergent meeting on Saturday afternoon at her Kalighat residence in South Kolkata to review the results and come up with a road map for a turnaround ahead of the Assembly polls.

May 25, 2019

Prepare for 2022 Assembly polls, Akhilesh Yadav tells party men

Akhilesh Yadav exhorted his party workers to get to the job without wasting any time and launch a door-to-door campaign to create awareness about the “anti-people” policies of the BJP governments at the Centre and in the state.

May 25, 2019

World leaders congratulate PM Modi on historic win

World leaders congratulated Prime Minister Modi on his landslide victory in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

May 23, 2019

Verdict 2019: Former Chief Ministers contesting Lok Sabha elections and their chances

Not only does it become a prestige battle for the party and the former CM, the outcome also indicates the shift in voters’ sentiments.

May 22, 2019

Laying the ground

Had the alliance between the Congress and AAP fructified, the situation may have been different.

May 22, 2019

SC rejects PIL seeking 100 per cent tally of VVPAT slips with EVMs

The bench, comprising of justices Arun Mishra and MR Shah, refused to entertain the PIL filed by Tech 4 All, a Chennai based organisation, observing that a larger bench, headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi, has already dealt with the matter and passed an order.

May 21, 2019

Post poll violence | BJP worker shot at in West Bengal

"There was a clash on Monday night. One of the BJP workers was shot at but we are yet to receive any formal complaint. Whether it was actually a bullet injury needs to be verified," an officer of Sitai police station said.

May 21, 2019