The government announced that Former Prime Ministers Chaudhary Charan Singh and PV Narasimha Rao, and legendary agricultural scientist Dr MS Swaminathan will be honoured with the Bharat Ratna.
The post came minutes after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced the conferment of the Bharat Ratna award to former Prime Minister Chaudhary Charan Singh.
The RLD and the SP announced their alliance for the Lok Sabha polls on January 19 with the former stating that the latter will leave seven seats in western UP for its nominees. However, as political situation changes, Jayant Chaudhary's party is most likely to enter in an alliance with the BJP.
If RLD joins hands with the BJP, it would be the second party to pull out of the I.N.D.I.A bloc after Nitish Kumar's JDU.
In yet another setback to the I.N.D.I.A bloc, the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) is set to partner with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections
Jayant Chaudhary-led RLD is likely to join the alliance with BJP. If sources are to be believed, the BJP has offered four Lok Sabha seats to RLD in Uttar Pradesh. After this, speculations are rife that the alliance between the RLD and Samajwadi Party could break in the state.
Newly-elected Samajwadi Party MLAs on Saturday met at the party office in Lucknow. The meeting was chaired by party chief Akhilesh Yadav. However, Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party chief Shivpal Yadav and uncle of SP chief was not invited to the meeting. SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s younger brother had fought polls from his family bastion Jaswantnagar and won after a truce with his Akhilesh Yadav.
Sources said that Jayant Chaudhary will soon meet Akhilesh Yadav and a formal announcement will be made about the former's Rajya Sabha candidature.
According to sources,one of the main reasons for the under performance of the alliance in an area that was the focal point of the famers' agitation against the ruling BJP, was faulty candidate selection and swapping of candidates.
The RLD chief, whose party contested the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election in a tie-up with the Akhilesh Yadav-led Samajwadi Party (SP), also wondered from where those involved in exit polls got their data from.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) has prohibited political parties from taking out political rallies and roadshows till February 11 in light of the COVID-19 situation.Five states will go into polls in February including Goa, Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Manipur.
The RLD leader also took a swipe at the BJP over the death of farmers during over year-long farmers protests and also demanded resignation of Union Minister Ajay Mishra Teni over the Lakhimpur Kheri incident.
Only recently, Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined BJP, which came as a major setback for Samajwadi Party and Akhilesh Yadav. However, today another member of the family joined hands with BJP as well. Yet, now another challenge for Akhilesh ahead of the polls, seems to be the news of SP and RLD leaders being at loggerheads over choices of candidates. Watch Aaj Ki Baat with Rajat Sharma.
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The four-time Lok Sabha MP from Faridabad, Haryana will be fielded by the RLD from Jewar assembly constituency in Gautam Buddh Nagar district of Uttar Pradesh, party sources told PTI.
Chaos prevailed during a joint rally of Samajwadi Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) in Aligarh on Thursday. As workers of both the parties jostled with each other to join top leaders on the stage, the railing collapsed leading to a stampede-like situation. RLD president Jayant Chaudhary was also present on the stage.
As workers of both the parties jostled with each other to join top leaders on the stage, the railing collapsed leading to a stampede-like situation.
Jayant Chaudhary was on Tuesday appointed as the new national president of the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD), according to a party statement. His elevation to the post comes following the demise of party president and his father Ajit Singh, who had succumbed to COVID-19 on May 6.
A huge crowd of people gathered at Ghazipur border amid the ongoing farmers' protest on January 29. RLD leader Jayant Chaudhary arrived at the site to meet Bharatiya Kisan Union spokesperson Rakesh Tikait and other farmers.
Nine RLD were sent to jail after they surrendered before a court here in connection with the April 7 clash with BJP workers during a roadshow, police said on Friday.
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