Mumbai, Mar 30 (UNI) Dr. Archana Patil, the daughter-in-law of former Lok Sabha speaker Shivraj Patil, joined the BJP on Saturday, ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. She joined the party in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union Minister of State for Finance Dr. Bhagwat Karad, State President Chandrashekhar Bawankule, and…
Hyderabad, Mar 30 (UNI) Telangana Civil Supplies and Irrigation Minister Capt N Uttam Kumar Reddy expressed confidence on Saturday that the Congress party would sweep the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Telangana, securing 13–14 seats with a significant majority. Addressing a preparatory meeting for the Nalgonda parliamentary constituency elections in Mattampally, Huzurnagar, Reddy highlighted the…
Bengaluru, March 30 (UNI) The All India Congress Committee (AICC) finally announced KV Gowtham as its nominee for the Kolar Reserve Lok Sabha seat in Karnataka on Saturday. The announcement came after significant lobbying and threats of resignation from five Congress legislators who opposed the potential candidacy of Chikka Peddanna, the son-in-law of senior party…
Srinagar, Mar 30 (UNI) National Conference Vice-President Omar Abdullah on Saturday said that the party high command would decide ‘on whether and where he would contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls.’ “Whether I contest the polls or not, or from where I contest, this is not my personal choice. It will be a decision of…
Banda (UP), Mar 30 (UNI) The postmortem report of mafia-turned-politician and former MLA Mukhtar Ansari has claimed that he died due to shock along with myocardial infarction, official sources said here on Saturday. Sources said that according to a postmortem report, shock has been stated as the immediate cause of death. “As per the report,…
Srinagar, Mar 30 (UNI) Jammu and Kashmir National Conference President Farooq Abdullah on Saturday claimed that BJP is in an extreme state of “panic” sensing “defeat” in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. He said this while addressing party functionalities at the party headquarters in Srinagar. “The closer the Lok Sabha polls come, the frustration and…
New Delhi, Mar 30 (UNI) President Droupadi Murmu on Saturday conferred the country’s highest civilian award Bharat Ratna on former Prime Ministers P. V. Narasimha Rao and Chaudhary Charan Singh, agriculture scientist M S Swaminathan, and two-time former Bihar Chief Minister Karpoori Thakur posthumously. The prestigious award was conferred at an Investiture Ceremony held at…
Hyderabad, Mar 30 (UNI) A criminal case has been filed against BRS Working President K. T. Rama Rao (KTR) at Banjara Hills Police Station. Congress leader Batthina Srinivas Rao lodged a complaint against KTR at the Hanumakonda police station. In his complaint, he alleged that KTR made false accusations against Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy…
Ghazipur (UP), Mar 30 (UNI) Mafia-turned-politician and former MLA Mukhtar Ansari was laid to rest at his ancestral graveyard Kali Bagh in Yusufpur Mohammadabad area of Ghazipur district here in Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. Family sources said that Mukhtar was buried next to the grave of his mother amid tight security arrangements being supervised by…
Itanagar, Mar 30 (UNI) As the tradition of getting elected unopposed to the Arunachal Pradesh Legislative Assembly continues unabated, with the ‘money culture’ playing a key role, a cross-section of society aired diverse opinions regarding elections, the festival of democracy. Arunachal Pradesh graduated to the trend of sending MLAs to the State Assembly uncontested in…
