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NEW DELHI: Rekha Gupta, a first-time MLA and long-time RSS associate, is set to become the fourth woman chief minister of Delhi, marking the BJP’s return to power in the capital after 27 years. Gupta, 50, was chosen as the Leader of the House in the Delhi Assembly at the BJP legislature party meeting on…
NEW DELHI: Former chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party leader Atishi on Wednesday congratulated Rekha Gupta on being named Delhi CM by the Bharatiya Janata Party.Atishi congratulated Gupta while emphasising the importance of fulfilling the promises made by the BJP to the people of Delhi. “I would like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Rekha…
Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann expressed confidence on Tuesday that future US deportee flights may not land in Amritsar, following his strong opposition to the arrival of three such aircraft earlier this month.“I strongly opposed it (the landing of US planes carrying deportees) in Amritsar,” Mann told reporters in Sardulgarh. “But now I feel that…
In the summer of 2011, Anna Hazare, a Maharashtra-based social activist, started a fast-unto-death protest in the national capital’s Ramlila Maidan, seeking a ‘Jan Lokpal Bill’ to fight corruption. The movement ‘India Against Corruption’ was quick to catch the public imagination, pulling thousands into the sprawling grounds at the heart of Delhi, as it grabbed…
Amartya Sen praised the AAP for its efforts on school education and healthcare and suggested that the Congress should have joined the party on those issues. Nobel laureate Amartya Sen has underscored the “strong need” for unity between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), stating that the two parties should have contested the…
Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) defeat in the Delhi assembly election is a turning point in Indian right wing politics. It marks the end, at least for now, of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS) covert dalliance with an activist-turned-politician who grew into a formidable adversary to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). In…
NEW DELHI: Will Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann persist with Arvind Kejriwal‘s “Delhi model” to win a second term or will he explore a “new model” to woo voters? AAP’s humiliating loss in the just concluded Delhi assembly elections has suddenly put a question mark on Kejriwal’s winning strategy which had helped the party rule…
NEW DELHI: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Atishi on Sunday tendered her resignation as Delhi chief minister to lieutenant governor VK Saxena at the Raj Niwas, following her party’s crushing defeat in assembly elections.The 43-year-old leader was serving as the Delhi chief minister since September 2024. She was elevated to the top post after the…
In a historic political shift, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is poised to form government in Delhi after 27 years, securing a commanding two-thirds majority in the assembly elections 2025. The BJP’s resounding victory ends over a decade of governance by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), led by Arvind Kejriwal.The last BJP government in Delhi…
JALANDHAR: The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD), which took great delight in how the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was crushed in the Delhi assembly elections and its supremo Arvind Kejriwal lost his own seat, itself has ceded more ground to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the national capital.SAD’s Delhi unit campaigned actively against former Delhi…
