Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Rajasthan BJP MLA Habibur Rahman joins Congress after Dausa MP Harish Meena
The ruling BJP in Rajasthan suffered another setback ahead of the December 7 assembly election when its Nagaur MLA, Habibur Rahman, returned to the Congress after a decade. He joined at the party’s Jaipur office in the presence of Ajmer MP Raghu Sharma and other leaders. Also that day, Harish Chandra Meena, the BJP MP from Dausa, switched to the Congress in New Delhi. Rahman’s return Rahman started out in the Congress, serving as a state minister from 2001 to 2003 under Ashok Gehlot. He moved to the BJP inRead More
Akhilesh Yadav and NDA ally Rajbhar attack UP government over renaming cities
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Wednesday used a couplet on Twitter to criticise the Yogi Adityanath government for renaming cities in Uttar Pradesh, arguing that development work had stalled while only names were changing. He attached photographs of works he said had been halted. The attack came a day after a state cabinet meeting chaired by Adityanath approved renaming Faizabad as Ayodhya and Allahabad as Prayagraj. Criticism from within the NDA On the same day, the government faced a verse-laden jibe from one of its own ministers, Om PrakashRead More