Denied entry at Rahul Gandhi's review meeting, Cong MLA slaps woman constable, gets slapped back
India | December 29, 2017 15:18 ISTHowever, things never stopped here, as the woman constable slapped Kumari back in a fit of rage.
However, things never stopped here, as the woman constable slapped Kumari back in a fit of rage.
A soft-spoken man, Thakur’s strength is that he is seen as a leader who has managed to straddle the party’s warring factions in the state.
Modi spent more than 10 minutes outside the Coffee House and enjoyed a cup of coffee where hundreds of BJP workers and others were assembled.
Jairam Thakur's name was proposed by Prem Kumar Dhumal and seconded by senior leaders Shanta Kumar and JP Nadda.
Jairam Thakur has been elected unopposed as the BJP's legislature party leader and the new CM of Himachal Pradesh, central observer Narendra Tomar announced today.
Everybody who knows Himachal well would agree that it’s going to be a crown of thrones for whoever takes the baton from the outgoing Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh.
State BJP chief Satpal Satti was humiliated in Una by Satpal Singh Razda of Congress while the BJP's Chief Ministerial candidate Prem Kumar Dhumal lost in Sujanpur.
The BJP is heading for a record sixth straight victory in Gujarat assembly polls, and is set to evict the Congress in Himachal Pradesh, tightening the party’s grip over the country’s politics with general elections only 18 months away.
Shah also asserted that the poll outcome in favour of the BJP is a victory of performance and development against political dynasty.
Six-time Chief Minister, Singh, who won his Arki seat with a margin of 6,051 votes, blamed the party's central leadership for lack of campaigning.
"I assure people of Gujarat and Himachal that we will leave no stone unturned in furthering the development journey and serve the people tirelessly," PM Modi said.
Having lost Himachal Pradesh, the Congress will head into the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with governments in Karnataka, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram and the Union Territory of Pondicherry.
Asked if the BJP's poll victory in the assembly elections was an affirmation of people's faith in Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Home Minister said: "Yes, it is. It is a seal of people's faith in his development work."
The fate of 337 candidates including Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh and his predecessor Prem Kumar Dhumal will be known by the end of counting.
The AAP on Friday questioned exit poll projections but said if results on December 18 indeed tallied with the predictions the BJP must have manipulated the EVMs.
A highest ever polling of 74.61 per cent was recorded in the state in 2017 assembly polls and women outnumbered men in polling by about 1 lakh votes.
Deputy Election Commissioner Sandeep Saxena informed that the previous highest polling percentage of 73.5 was recorded in the 2012 assembly polls. In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, it was 64.45 per cent.
The Congress and the BJP have fielded candidates on all 68 seats, while the BSP and the CPI-M have fielded 42 and 14 candidates respectively.
The stage is set for the single-phase polls on sixty-eight Assembly seats in Congress-ruled Himachal Pradesh on Thursday.
While Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh will be contesting elections from Arki constituency, his son Vikramaditya Singh will be trying his luck from Shimla Rural constituency.
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