Vasundhara Raje
7 articles on India Vote Kar are tagged “Vasundhara Raje”, published between March 2018 and December 2018. They are filed mainly under BJP, Congress. They are listed below, newest first, followed by related coverage and topics.
Rajasthan exit polls: aggregate gives Congress 112 seats, BJP 78
Exit polls released on Friday, after voting ended in five states, indicated that Rajasthan would keep up its pattern of voting out the sitting government. Results for Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Telangana and Mizoram were due on Tuesday, December 11. What the numbers suggest An aggregate of the exit polls put the Congress at 112 and the BJP at 78 of the 199 Rajasthan seats where voting took place. A party needs 100 seats to form the government. Apart from anti-incumbency, the BJP had lost several prominent members before theRead More
PM Modi says surgical strike left Congress in mourning, hits back at Rahul Gandhi
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at an election rally in Sikar, Rajasthan, criticised Congress president Rahul Gandhi for casting doubt on the Army’s surgical strike across the border in September 2016. He alleged that the operation had left the opposition party gloomy rather than proud. Modi’s charge Modi said the whole country had been filled with pride when the soldiers returned from the strike, but the Congress had been in mourning. Referring to Gandhi as the “naamdar” (aristocrat), he said the Congress leader was accusing him of lying, and asked whetherRead More
Amit Shah in Rajasthan: BJP will remove all ‘intruders’ if re-elected in 2019
BJP president Amit Shah said on Monday that every “intruder” would be identified and removed from the country if the BJP returned to power in 2019. Addressing a public rally in Rajasthan, he urged voters to re-elect the Vasundhara Raje government in the state and the Modi government at the Centre. Intruders and the NRC Shah said a re-elected BJP government would find and expel intruders “from Kashmir to Kanyakumari”. He accused Rahul Gandhi and the Congress of being anxious about the 40 lakh people the BJP government had identifiedRead More
Rajasthan polls: BJP’s first list of 131 names has 25 new faces, Raje in Jhalrapatan
The Bharatiya Janata Party late on Sunday named 131 candidates in its first list for the Rajasthan assembly election, again fielding Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje from Jhalrapatan, her usual seat. The names include 85 sitting MLAs and 25 new faces. How the list was finalised Senior leader JP Nadda read out the names after the party’s central election committee met, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, party president Amit Shah, other top leaders and Raje. The list was reportedly delayed by differences between Shah and Raje. Nadda told reporters that candidatesRead More
Congress accuses Rajasthan BJP of bribing voters with free smartphone scheme
The Congress on Wednesday accused the BJP government in Rajasthan of using state money to bribe voters through a scheme offering free smartphones. Party spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi also charged the BJP with insulting the memory of Maharana Pratap and his aide Bhamashah by naming the scheme after them. The scheme The Vasundhara Raje government has announced free smartphones with internet access under the Bhamashah Digital Parivar Yojana for families covered by the National Food Security Act (NFSA). Government records show 1.64 crore families, with 6.08 crore members, are enrolled underRead More
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