Politics

NEW DELHI: Punjab’s Chief Minister-elect Bhagwant Mann on Monday tendered his resignation as a member of Lok Sabha. He is all set to take the oath of office at a grand ceremony in Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of freedom fighter Bhagat Singh on March 16. Speaking to media persons outside his residence here, Mann said […]

NEW DELHI: The drubbing in the recently concluded assembly elections in the five states to the Congress has once again brought focus on the G-23 leaders, who two years ago wrote to party chief Sonia Gandhi demanding an active leadership. A meeting of the CWC, considered to be the highest decision making body of the […]

NEW DELHI: Even as the crucial Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting is underway at the party headquarters here to discuss the poll debacle in Punjab, Goa, Uttarakhand, Manipur and Uttar Pradesh, the grand old party was hit by a controversy last night over the news reports suggesting that party chief Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and  […]

  LUCKNOW: Apna Dal (Sonelal) supremo Anupriya Patel, whose party won 12 out of 17 assembly seats it contested and whose sister defeated incumbent Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya, on Saturday said that leaders of her party and the BJP will “sit and discuss” if she wants the deputy CM’s post for one of her […]

SHIMLA: For the past several decades, never has any political party been able to repeat its government in Himachal Pradesh. Be it the BJP or the Congress, both have had to make way for their rival every five years. With the next Himachal Assembly elections due in December, the BJP and the Congress, traditionally ruling […]