Former Kerala DGP R Sreelekha joins BJP in Thiruvananthapuram
India | October 09, 2024 17:38 ISTR Sreelekha took party membership at her residence in Thiruvananthapuram from BJP state president K Surendran on Wednesday.
R Sreelekha took party membership at her residence in Thiruvananthapuram from BJP state president K Surendran on Wednesday.
The matters related to foreign affairs come under the Union List in the Seventh Schedule of the Indian Constitution. Accordingly, the state has no role in external affairs. BJP is using this to call the appointment of a foreign secretary a violation of the constitution.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi will retain the Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency in Uttar Pradesh and vacate his Wayanad seat in Kerala from where his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will make her electoral debut.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will arrive in Kerala on April 24 for a two-day visit and attend a host of programmes including the flagging off Vande Bharat Express train.
Kerala BJP chief Surendran said he was only referring to the quantum of financial gain allegedly received by Left leaders through their corrupt activities.
Sreedharan had contested in the assembly polls held in April last as BJP's CM candidate but was defeated by Congress leader Shafi Parambil.
The development comes a day after a court here directed the police to register the case against Surendran over bribery allegations.
Metroman E Sreedharan, the technocrat who implemented several flagship projects across India including the Metro Rail, is confident of turning around the Bharatiya Janata Party's fortune in Kerala.
Kerala BJP president K Surendran hit out at state Finance Minister Thomas Isaac for allegedly leaking CandAG (Comptroller and Auditor General) audit report documents and urged chief minister to drop him from the cabinet.
Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan is under attack from the opposition ranks for the massive gold scandal in which his former principal secretary was allegedly involved.
The meeting was chaired by national organisation secretary B.L. Santhosh. While Surendran is being backed by the faction headed by Union Minister of State for External Affairs V. Muraleedharan, Ramesh has the support of former state BJP chief P.K. Krishnadas.
The Kerala unit of the BJP has two power centres -- one led by Union Minister of State for External Affairs V.Muraleedharan and the other led by former state party president P.K.Krishnadas -- and the race is between the two to get their nominee to the party top's post
The Kerala unit of the BJP on Thursday made it clear that one of its Lok Sabha election campaigns will be the Sabarimala issue.
The police have registered the case under Section 505 1(b) of the Indian Penal Code which refers to comments that can cause fear or alarm in the public and disturb peace.
Earlier this week at a press meet in the state capital, Vijayan spoke about the aid from the UAE, saying that the news was conveyed to him by Middle East business honcho, M.A. Yusuf Ali.
A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) worker was stabbed to death in Kerala on Sunday allegedly by activists of the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist), the state BJP has claimed.
BJP's Kerala unit has come under a cloud following a purported internal report on alleged corruption by some leaders in the grant of MCI clearance for a private college.
Terming the killings in Kannur, the home district of Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, a matter of "shame", Shah said that the ruling party should steer clear of the misconception that it can suppress the BJP’s rise in the state through intimidation
PK Kunhalikutty, the IUML candidate, is leading with a margin of 1,71,023 votes ahead of his nearest rival MB Faisal of the CPI(M)
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