Politics

SHIMLA: Buoyed over its recent win in Himachal Pradesh bypolls, the Congress party is leaving no stone unturned to ensure it wrests power from the ruling BJP in 2022 state polls. The New Indian caught up with Congress’ state president Kuldeep Rathore, who seems determined to continue the victory march well into Assembly elections. ALSO […]

NEW DELHI: PM Narendra Modi announced on Friday to repeal farm laws in the upcoming winter session of Parliament. The public discourse and Opposition leaders gave a political angle to this announcement as elections are due in farmer-dominated states like Punjab and Uttar Pradesh early next year. But the statistics from last year and this […]

LUCKNOW: Hours after Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced to repeal the three farm laws in upcoming session of Parliament, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that the government decided to do so because it had understood that they would face “reverses” in the upcoming assembly elections. Speaking to media here, Priyanka Gandhi, who is […]

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s announcement about the repealing of the three contentious farm laws was appreciated by all parties across the political spectrum. While Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) supremo Parkash Singh Badal congratulated farmers and others behind the movement, he said one must now forget those who laid their lives to get these […]

SHIMLA (HIMACHAL PRADESH): In an exclusive interview with The New Indian, Himachal Pradesh CM Jairam Thakur opened up on reasons behind BJP’s devastating defeat in the recently held bypolls and why only the hill state hogged the limelight despite the party having lost in several other states like Rajasthan, West Bengal, Karnataka and Maharashtra. Without […]