Tuesday, April 23rd, 2019
BJP fields Gautam Gambhir against AAP’s Atishi in East Delhi
The BJP has named cricketer Gautam Gambhir, who joined the party last month, as its candidate for the East Delhi Lok Sabha seat. He will face the Aam Aadmi Party‘s Atishi Marlena, known for her work on education, and the Congress’s Arvinder Singh Lovely, a former Delhi minister. Why East Delhi There had been early speculation that Gambhir, who often takes on the party’s political opponents on social media, would be fielded from New Delhi, but the party decided otherwise. The seat was won last time by Maheish Girri, aRead More
Actor Sunny Deol joins BJP, likely to contest from Gurdaspur in Punjab
Actor Sunny Deol joined the BJP, a few days after meeting party president Amit Shah, and is expected to be the party’s candidate from Gurdaspur in Punjab. Deol’s reasons In a brief speech, Deol said that just as his father had stood with Atal Bihari Vajpayee, he had decided to go with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and that he wanted Modi as Prime Minister for another five years. Only a week earlier, after his meeting with Shah, he had played down talk of a political entry, saying he had simplyRead More
Voter ID more powerful than IED, says PM Modi after voting in Ahmedabad
Prime Minister Narendra Modi cast his vote in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on Tuesday during the third phase of the Lok Sabha election, and told reporters afterwards that a voter ID card was far more powerful than an IED. What Modi said Comparing the two, Modi said the IED was the weapon of terrorism while the voter ID was the strength of democracy, and that people should understand the power their voter cards carried. He also said voting left a person feeling pure, likening it to the feeling after taking a holyRead More