The Sterlite copper plant in Tamil Nadu's Thoothukudi has been closed since May 2018, following the killing of 13 people in police firing to quell the protest over alleged pollution caused by it.
The Speaker of the assembly, Kuldeep Singh Pathania, has disqualified six Congress MLAs for defying party whip in the Rajya Sabha elections. All the six rebel Congress MLAs will now cease to be members of the assembly.
Nagaur Lok Sabha Election 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Nagaur constituency for the first time when Bhanu Prakash Mirdha defeated Congress candidate Ram Niwas Mirdha in a 1997 bypoll.
The Rs 75,000 crore rooftop solar scheme for providing free electricity to consumers was launched by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
The approval was made aiming to give more support to farmers in fetching essential Phosphatic and Potassic fertilisers.
Darjeeling Lok Sabha Election 2024: The CPM won the seat six times in 1971, 1980, 1984, 1996, 1998 and 1999. The Congress won the seat five times in 1957, 1962, 1977, 1991 and 2004. The BJP emerged victorious in 2009, 2014 and 2019.
Rahul Gandhi may contest the Lok Sabha elections from Amethi, where he lost to Smriti Irani in 2019, and Priyanka Gandhi may make her electoral debut with candidature from Raebareli from where Sonia Gandhi was an MP.
Mainpuri Lok Sabha Election 2024: The Mainpuri parliamentary constituency is a stronghold of the Yadav family. Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Mulayam Singh Yadav, Dharmendra Yadav, Tej Pratap Singh Yadav and Dimple Yadav represented the seat.
Gautam Buddha Nagar Noida Election 2024: BJP's Dr Mahesh Sharma won the seat for the first time in 2014 by defeating SP candidate Narendra Bhati. The Khurja Lok Sabha seat was renamed as Gautam Buddha Nagar in 2008.
Ghaziabad Lok Sabha Election 2024: Former Army chief General VK Singh won the seat for the first time in 2014 by defeating Congress candidate Raj Babbar. The Hapur Lok Sabha seat was renamed as Ghaziabad in 2008.
Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha Election 2024: The Naveen Patnaik-led Biju Janata Dal (BJD) won the constituency five times in a row from 1998 to 2019. The party lost the election to BJP's Aparajita Sarangi for the first time in the 2019 polls.
Gandhinagar Lok Sabha Election 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the constituency ten times in a row in 1989, 1991, 1996, 1996 (bypoll),1998, 1999, 2004, 2009, 2014 and 2019. Former Deputy Prime Minister Lal Krishna Advani represented the seat maximum times.
Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's political crisis: The turbulence in the hilly state was triggered by cross-voting by six Congress MLAs in the Rajya Sabha election for the lone seat from Himachal Pradesh.
Guna Lok Sabha Election 2024: BJP candidate Krishna Pal Singh Yadav defeated Jyotiraditya Scindia in the 2019 parliamentary elections. This was the first defeat of the Scindia family in its fiefdom of Guna. Vijaya Raje Scindia represented the constituency six times.
Ranchi Lok Sabha Election 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won the Ranchi parliamentary constituency six times in 1991, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2014 and 2019. Ram Tahal Choudhary represented the seat five times while Congress leader Subodh Kant Sahay won it thrice in 1989, 2004 and 2009.
Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha Election 2024: The Bharatiya Janata Party performed considerably well in this seat as compared to the other seats in Kerala. The party received more than 30 per cent of votes in the seat during 2014 and 2019 elections and remained the runner-up on both occasions.
With the disqualification of 6 Congress MLAs from the Himachal Pradesh Assembly, the strength of the Sukhu government reduced to 34 from 40. However, his government is safe with a thin majority in the House.
The turbulence in Himachal was triggered by Tuesday’s cross-voting by six Congress MLAs in the Rajya Sabha election for the lone seat from Himachal Pradesh.
Amid a political crisis in Himachal Pradesh after the defeat of the Congress candidate in the Rajya Sabha elections, Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu asserted that they will run the government for five years.
Besides the BJP and the Congress, BSP, AAP, NPP and CPI-M have declared their income.
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