Category: POLITICS

New Delhi: The BJP’s Central Election Committee met on Saturday to finalize the party’s candidates for the Lok Sabha elections in several states. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, Defense Minister Rajnath Singh and BJP President J.P. Nadda joined other CEC members when they took the final decision on the list of probables. The states where candidates are likely to be discussed include Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan. The CEC has met twice before and has so far declared the names of candidates for 291 Lok Sabha seats, which include…

New Delhi: Many senior leaders of Aam Aadmi Party have been arrested in the alleged liquor scam of Delhi. In such a situation, a big crisis has arisen as to who will take charge of the Lok Sabha elections. If we especially look at Punjab, Aam Aadmi Party has won 14 seats and the state needs veteran leaders like Arvind Kejriwal. At present you do not have a concrete answer as to how this dent will be filled. In such a situation, the responsibility of the Lok Sabha election campaign…

New Delhi: ED has taken Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on six-day remand in the Delhi Liquor Policy case. Regarding his arrest and remand, AAP leader Atishi said while talking to journalists that this kind of behavior of our CM is a well-planned conspiracy of BJP. Whereas Arvind Kejriwal is a leader with a clean image. Atishi did not stop here, she further said that ED has done so much investigation till now but ED has not found even a single rupee in the raid. She said that the money…

New Delhi: India’s biggest court has expressed its displeasure regarding electoral bonds and has also reprimanded SBI several times regarding this and asked them for details of allowing them to be accepted in full. The Supreme Court has declared it unconstitutional. Now the statement of senior BJP leader and Union Minister Nitin Gadkari regarding electoral bonds has come out in which he said that it is not possible to run a political party without money. Our intentions behind bringing the electoral bond scheme were good.  Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said in his statement…

New Delhi: Former Lok Sabha Speaker and Congress leader Meera Kumar is not contesting the Lok Sabha elections. She said this on her social media. Jagjivan Ram’s daughter and five-time MP said on Facebook that she will continue to do women empowerment and social work like before. She posted on her Facebook account, “I have decided not to contest in the 2024 general elections. I will always serve the people of my country, especially the poor, deprived sections and women.” Meera has been MP from Sasaram seat of Bihar five…

Bengaluru: Congress has released the second phase list of 17 candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka. The sons/daughters of Congress high command ministers have been nominated in the second phase candidate list. The list of candidates was finalized in the meeting of the Central Election Committee held at the AICC office under the chairmanship of Mallikarjun Kharge. Transport Minister Ramalinga Reddy’s daughter Soumya Reddy (Bangalore South), Public Works Minister Satish Jarkiholi’s daughter Priyanka Jarkiholi (Chikodi), Women and Child Development Minister Lakshmi Hebbalkar’s son Mrinal (Belgaum), Agriculture Marketing…

Bengaluru: The Election Commission has seized 1,681 LED TVs worth Rs 2 crore which were kept for distribution to influence voters. The TVs were seized from a warehouse in Bengaluru’s BTM Lok Sabha constituency. The Election Commission has instructed the local police to investigate who kept so many TVs and for what purpose.  With the announcement of the Lok Sabha elections, various political parties have started trying to influence the voters in various ways. Many expensive items are given to the voters. Last day, lakhs of rupees without proper documents…

Chennai: BJP has released the third list of candidates contesting in the Lok Sabha elections in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu BJP president K. Annamalai is included in this list. Elections in Tamil Nadu will be held on April 19. K Annamalai will seek the seat from Coimbatore. Former Telangana Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan will contest from Chennai South. L Murugan will seek mandate from the Nilgiris. BJP leader Vinoj Selvam will contest from Chennai Central. AC Shanmugam will contest from Vellore. C Narasimhan will contest from Krishnagiri and TR Parivendran from…

Jalna: India’s electoral ground is where many celebrities, includingfilm stars and businessmen, have contested and won and lost. Indian electoral politics has given the sweet taste of victory to many who are not full-time political activists. Some have been left out altogether. Babasaheb Shinde from Bapkal in Jalna district of Maharashtra has a story to tell of contesting and losing elections since 1980. Shinde wanted to become MLA and MP through democratic means. In 1980, Shinde contested as an independent candidate from the Badnapur Assembly constituency. But failed. A firm believer in democracy, Shinde has contested…

Patna: There is a stampede among the leaders who are looking at their own future in the Lok Sabha elections. He goes and sits wherever he sees opportunity. A similar picture seems to be emerging in the politics of Bihar also. Here former MP Pappu Yadav has decided to contest elections from Purnia. For this, he has decided to merge his Jan Adhikar Party with Congress.  Pappu knows that his dream cannot be fulfilled unless he gets the blessings of RJD chief Lalu. This is the reason why he met Lalu without any delay and…