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No-trust vote: TRS abstentions, NDA wins By 325-126 with AIADMK backing and BJD
No-trust vote: TRS abstentions, NDA wins By 325-126 with AIADMK, Marked by moments of high drama and histrionics, the no-confidence debate in Lok Sabha saw Prime Minister Narendra Modi capitalising on Rahul Gandhi’s surprise hug to suggest that the Congress chief ’s gesture asking him to get up only reflected an unfounded eagerness to assume the high office. “Those who want to reach here in a hurry came here and gestured ‘get up, get up’,” Modi said. Gesturing with his hands, he mimicked Rahul’s actions, providing more drama to aRead More
Seat Sharing and Poll Preparations on Agenda : Amit Shah to Meet Nitish Kumar in Patna
BJP president Amit Shah will hold discussions with JD(U) leader and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar over breakfast and dinner during his visit to Patna on Thursday. This comes amid reports of differences between the two parties over seat sharing agreement for 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state for 2019 LS elections. Leaders from both sides are hopeful that the differences will be resolved when Nitish Kumar and Amit Shah will sit together. Amid repeated assertions by spokesmen of the JD(U) that it was the “elder brother” in theRead More
Amit Shah: BJP Will Form Strong Alliance in Tamil Nadu
BJP president Amit Shah on Monday said that his party would form an alliance in Tamil Nadu that would eventually form the government and eliminate corruption. Without making any direct reference to the ruling AIADMK, he said, “I feel saddened when I think about Tamil Nadu. “These days, Tamil Nadu figures among those States that are most affected by corruption.” He claimed that only a BJP government would be able to end the prevalence of electoral corruption in the State. Addressing the BJP’s polling booth in-charges at the VGP GoldenRead More
MUTHUVEL KARUNANIDHI
Muthuvel Karunanidhi (born as Daksinamoorthy on 3 June 1924) is an Indian politician who has served as Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu on five separate occasions. He is the head of the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK), a Dravidian political party in the state of Tamil Nadu. He has been the leader of the DMK since the death of its founder, C. N. Annadurai, in 1969. He holds the record of winning his seat in every election in which he has participated, in a political career spanning more than 60 years.Read More
BJP moves beyond party in bid to hunt for winners
The party has lured about 100 former MPs, MLAs and other leaders from rival parties, mostly from backward classes, and now plans to field them in constituencies where it has been traditionally weak. “It is a legitimate election tactic to find winnable candidates. We have to depend more on them since we don’t have strong contenders on most of the seats,” a BJP general secretary said. The BJP fielded 398 candidates in the 2012 election in Uttar Pradesh and 229, about 58%, of them forfeited their deposit. Only 47 candidatesRead More