Tag: NDA

Scindia revolt proves blessing in disguise for Lalu’s party

The RJD, headed by Lalu Prasad, is now confident to nominate both its candidates to the Upper House of the Parliament.

March 11, 2020

India supplies bulletproof jackets to 18 countries: Rajnath Singh

Defence Minister also said that industrial Licenses had been issued to 15 companies for manufacturing Bullet Proof Jackets having production capacity in the country of over 10 Lakh per annum to meet the domestic and export requirement.

March 11, 2020

Amid growing speculations, Nitish says NDA is intact in Bihar

The “clarification” assumes significance in the light of the prevailing speculations about his growing proximity with Opposition leader Tejashwi Yadav from the RJD in the recent week during which he had held two successive closed-door meetings with the latter in the Bihar assembly.

March 1, 2020

Bihar at a tangent

Indeed, Bihar is the first state with an NDA government to adopt a unanimous resolution in the Assembly, seeking to stick to the proforma of the old NPR that was finalised in 2010.

February 27, 2020

Nitish Kumar in serious trouble with huge dependency on BJP vote-bank

The poor performance of his party, the JD-U, on two seats in Delhi which he contested in alliance with the BJP—first such alliance in over a decade outside Bihar—speaks volumes about how Nitish failed to leave his impact on migrant Bihari voters.

February 12, 2020

Political parties ‘bitten by yatra bug’ in Bihar

Be it the ruling NDA or the Opposition, each side has focused their eyes on issues which suit their voters.

February 10, 2020

Govt for continuous engagement with industry, business: FM

Interacting with trade and industry representatives, she said the budget presented by her in Lok Sabha on February 1 had several features related to the tax administration like faceless appeals which would become a reality with the aid of new technology.

February 9, 2020

Punjab CM challenges Akalis to quit NDA to prove their stand on CAA

He urged the SAD minister in the Union Cabinet, Harsimrat Kaur Badal to immediately resign in support of their stand on the contentious Act.

January 21, 2020

Amit Shah ‘surrenders’ to Nitish’s tantrums, projects him as NDA’s face at Citizenship rally

The move assumes much significance given the BJP losing two states—Maharashtra and Jharkhand—in quick intervals and amply indicates how the party is just in no mood to lose another state of Bihar where assembly elections are due later this year.

January 16, 2020

BJP to pay heavy price for stubbornness over CAA: Captain

An elected government which refuses to heed the voice of its people or respond to their anger is bound to lose their confidence and collapse, warned the Punjab CM, adding that the BJP’s stance on the issue smacked of a dangerously fascist approach that would lead to their eventual downfall.

January 8, 2020

SAD should sever ties with NDA for lack of safety among minorities: Captain

Expressing deep concern over Akal Takht’s (the highest temporal seat of Sikhism) acting Jathedar’s remarks, Amarinder said while he himself did not agree with the Akal Takht Jathedar’s remarks that Sikhs were not safe in India, the CM said that if the former did feel that way then he should take up the matter with the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) and ask them to leave the BJP-led coalition government at the Centre, of which they are a part.

January 7, 2020

Bihar NDA partners locked in further confrontation, this time over NPR

While the deputy chief minister and senior-most BJP leader from Bihar Sushil Kumar Modi declared that the updation process of the contentious NPR would begin from May, the JD-U has rejected such announcement saying no such decision has been taken by the state government so far.

January 5, 2020

Poor Economics

India is one of the 193 countries that have pledged to alleviate poverty, hunger and gender inequality by 2030.

January 3, 2020

Fresh trouble in NDA as Nitish’s party rejects BJP’s 50:50 formula

Trouble began after JD-U’s national vice-president Prashant Kishor, considered very close to chief minister Nitish Kumar, gave his interview to some news channel declaring that in no way JD-U-BJP would contest on an equal number of seats in the 2020 assembly elections in Bihar.

January 1, 2020

2019 will be remembered for the betrayal of the people’s mandate, says Ahmed Patel

Senior Congress leader, P Chidambaram, who is out on bail in case of INX Media scam, also took to Twitter to bid adieu to 2019 by slamming the BJP government.

December 31, 2019

BJP must reassess strategy

Though Modi won with a massive majority in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, people differentiate between the national elections and state polls.

December 29, 2019

Shiv Sena tells BJP, it ‘espoused Hindutva when you were not even born’

The Sena in party mouthpiece Saamana’s editorial said, 'If you thought we had gone against the NDA, why didn't you have the courage to discuss it in an NDA meeting?'

November 19, 2019