Yashwant Sinha

ETAWAH: Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party chief Shivpal Singh Yadav is set to address media persons in Lucknow on Monday, two days after ally Samajwadi Party said he is “free” to leave the alliance.   In a letter on Saturday, SP said Shivpal was “free to go wherever he gets more respect”. Shivpal is likely to reply […]

KOLKATA: Leaving nothing to a chance, the Bengal unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party shifted its 69 MLAs to a private hotel ahead of the Presidential elections on Monday. While sources in the state BJP said that it’s been done mainly to make the MLAs understand the voting procedure, there has been buzz that there […]

NEW DELHI: National Democratic Alliance (NDA) candidate Draupadi Murmu is poised to become the 15th President of India, experts said as the voting concluded on Monday evening. Murmu, the former Governor of Jharkhand, will become the first tribal President of India if she manages to beat Opposition candidate Yashwant Sinha, which is, in all likelihood, […]

NEW DELHI: As voting took place today for India’s new President, opposition presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Monday dubbed the polling as “very important” and urged political parties to vote in his favour to save democracy and the Constitution. Speaking to the media, Sinha said, “This election is very important and will set the path […]

SRINAGAR: The joint opposition candidate for the Presidential elections Yashwant Sinha on Saturday said that if elected, his priority will be to persuade the government to find a permanent resolution to the Kashmir issue. Sinha also said that he is opposed to the forcible and manipulative changes in Jammu and Kashmir. Demanding restoration of statehood […]

NEW DELHI: Opposition presidential candidate and veteran politician Yashwant Sinha on Thursday condemned the gruesome killing of Kanhaiya Lal Teli in Udaipur last Tuesday. In a dastardly act of violence, Teli, who was a tailor by profession, was brutally murdered by Mohammed Rafiq and Abdul Jabbar in broad daylight. The duo are, apparently, killed over […]

NEW DELHI: Veteran politician Yashwant Sinha on Monday asserted that the election for the President of India is not about two people but about two ideologies, as filed his nomination papers for the Presidential election in New Delhi. The former Bharatiya Janata Party leader was accompanied by the top leaders from the opposition including Congress’ […]

NEW DELHI: In an interesting twist to the opposition’s quest for a Presidential poll candidate, former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) man Yashwant Sinha emerged as a consensus candidate. It was necessitated after Gopalkrishna Gandhi on Monday declined Mamata Banerjee’s offer to contest the Presidential election as their candidate. Sources told The New Indian that few […]