Friday, March 29th, 2019
BJP Dalit MP Ashok Dohare joins Congress, gets ticket from Etawah
Ashok Dohare, the sitting BJP member of Parliament from Etawah in Uttar Pradesh, joined the Congress in New Delhi on Friday, and within hours the party announced that he would be its candidate from the same constituency. Why he left Dohare was reportedly unhappy after the BJP refused him a ticket this time. The party instead chose Ram Shankar Katheria for Etawah, shifting him from Agra. He became the second Dalit MP of the BJP to move to the Congress, following Savitri Bai Phule. A string of defections Dohare isRead More
PM Modi says ‘no contest’ in 2019, predicts NDA will win more than 300 seats
Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Friday that the NDA would return to power with more than 300 seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, declaring in a television interview that there was no contest this time. It was his first broadcast interview since the BJP launched its campaign. Confidence about the result Speaking to Republic Bharat editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, Mr Modi said his political experience told him the party would gain significantly compared with last time. People who once had doubts about him now understood his work on nationalRead More
Bihar Mahagathbandhan announces seat sharing and RJD candidates for Lok Sabha 2019
The opposition grand alliance in Bihar has announced how it will share the state’s Lok Sabha seats. At a press conference, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav said the RJD would contest 19 seats, the Congress 9, HAM (S) 3 and the VIP 3, with the CPI (ML) also getting a seat. Candidates for the RJD’s seats were declared on the same day. RJD candidates Tanvir Hassan – Begusarai Sharad Yadav – Madhepura Abdul Bari Siddiqui – Darbhanga Raghuvansh Prasad Singh – Vaishali Surendra Ram – Gopalganj Randhir Singh – Maharajganj ChandrikaRead More
Nitish Kumar takes centre stage in JD(U) campaign posters for Lok Sabha polls
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his government’s record, rather than central schemes, have become the focus of the JD(U)‘s Lok Sabha campaign. Hoardings outside the party office in Patna feature him prominently, with only small pictures of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan. The slogans One hoarding reads “Neta Woh Jo Nirnay Le” (a leader is one who takes decisions), and another, carrying photos of all 17 JD(U) candidates, calls Nitish honest and good and asks voters to go with him. Other posters stress workRead More