PM Modi, Mamata Banerjee likely to share stage on January 12: Report
January 10, 2020 21:55 ISTPrime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee are likely to share the stage during a programme here on Sunday, TMC sources said.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and West Bengal Chief Mamata Banerjee are likely to share the stage during a programme here on Sunday, TMC sources said.
For the first time, Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar will take to the streets here on January 24 to oppose the Citizenship Amendment Act, the organisers said here on Friday.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi said in Varanasi that her party will roll back the CAA-NRC if it won power in the state elections of Uttar Pradesh in 2022
BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday denied meeting Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray, and said there was no plan to join hands with him as of now. His party and the MNS did not have any ideological affinity, Fadnavis, Leader of Opposition in the Assembly, said.
Taking a dig at Deepika Padukone over her participation in JNU vigil, Assam Finance Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Thursday said actors were in the habit of visiting disturbed areas to create controversies and get free publicity before the release of their films.
After directing Dhanbad administration to drop sedition charges against 3000 anti-CAA protesters, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren has said law is there not to gag voices but to instil a sense of security among the people.
The Congress on Wednesday took a swipe at the BJP, asking if Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone should visit the RSS headquarters in Nagpur instead of JNU.
Former Maharashtra chief minister and senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis met with MNS chief Raj Thackeray in Prabhadevi area here on Tuesday. The meeting between the two leaders lasted for nearly two hours, sources said.
They said that as many as 70 Bollywood personalities attended the meeting with BJP leaders, including Goyal, on Sunday and the interaction lasted for three hours.
In a shocking statement, UP BJP president Swatantra Dev Singh has accused Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of 'funding' violence in Uttar Pradesh.
BJP President Amit Shah on Sunday accused Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra of misleading the people over the amended Citizenship Act and instigating riots.
Getting the majority in the Rajya Sabha has been like the elusive holy grail for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Haryana and Maharashtra -- two big states that went to the polls last year -- had given the BJP hopes to move steadily in that direction. As 73 upper House seats go to polls this year, the BJP's dream for a majority will continue to remain a dream, at least for now.
The final list of reallocated porfolios in Maharashtra's Maha Vikas Aghadi government is out. As per the new allocation, Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar gets finance ministry while Anil Deshmukh, also of the NCP will be the Home minister. Congress' Balasaheb Thorat gets revenue ministry. Check full list here.
BSP president Mayawati on Thursday questioned the silence of Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on the death of infants in Rajasthan's Kota district and said she should have met the women who had lost their children due to the "laxity" of the Ashok Gehlot government.
Ajit Pawar, leader of Sharad Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party who is Deputy of Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, is likely to be handed Finance department, according to sources.
It seems that a section of the Congress camp in Maharashtra is upset with the cabinet expansion of the Uddhav Thackeray-led government. A senior leader of the Congress party hoped that the party brass takes note of the feeling that loyalists are being ignored at a time when they deserved an opportunity.
The year 2019 will go down as a watershed in the BJP's journey as the party not only achieved its highest ever tally in Lok Sabha but also realised its decades-long ideological planks with the Modi government pushing the saffron agenda with renewed vigour in its second term.
Maharashtra Cabinet Expansion: Sanjay Raut was instrumental in the battle that saw Shiv Sena break its decades-old alliance with Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and forging a new one with NCP and the Congress. He hit national headlines in the immediate aftermath of Maharashtra poll results as he opened a front against the BJP.
The Shiv Sena last month joined hands with the Congress and NCP, its traditional adversaries, after its alliance with the BJP collapsed over the issue of sharing the chief ministerial post. As per the power-sharing formula decided by the three MVA allies, the Sena will get 15 ministerial berths, excluding the CM's post, the NCP will also get 15 and the Congress 12.
Maharashtra Governor BS Koshyari will administer the oath to the new team around noon in the Maharashtra Legislature precinct. The total strength of the ministry of Maharashtra cabinet can be maximum 42 including the Chief Minister.
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