Politics

  NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as its Vice-Presidential candidate after a meeting of its Parliamentary Board on Saturday evening. “The decision was reached upon after discussing multiple names,” said BJP president JP Nadda. Governor Dhankhar, who is in Delhi, had met Prime Minister Narendra Modi before […]

NEW DELHI: The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) on Saturday announced West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar as its candidate for the election to the post of Vice President of India. Prior to the announcement, he called on Prime Minister Narendra Modi here. Dhankhar, who has been in public life for more than three decades, is […]

NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has announced to support Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha in the presidential elections scheduled for July 18. The decision was taken at the Political Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting held at the residence of party supremo and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday, sources said. AAP has 10 Rajya […]

NEW DELHI: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Parliamentary Board, the party’s highest decision-making body, will meet on Saturday evening in Delhi to decide the candidate for the vice-presidential election. The last day to file nomination for the vice-presidential poll is July 19. The meeting will be attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit […]

NEW DELHI: Congress party on Saturday dismissed Gujarat Police’s Special Investigation Team’s (SIT) claims that social activist Teesta Setalvad was part of a “larger conspiracy” carried out at the behest of late party leader Ahmed Patel to dismiss the Narendra Modi government in the state after the 2002 riots. In a statement, Congress general secretary […]