Bangalore, March 15 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal Saturday struck a chord with Bangaloreans during a day-long road show to campaign for his party’s candidates contesting in the general elections. “People of Karnataka, especially Bangaloreans, are fed up with the Congress and the BJP whom they voted to power in every alternate election […]
Ghaziabad, March 15 (IANS) Actor-turned-politician and Congress candidate from Ghaziabad parliamentary constituency Raj Babbar held a road show in the city Saturday. Babbar flagged off his road show from UP Gate at 11 a.m. He was accompanied by district Congress president Bijendra Yadav. After paying tribute to Bhagat Singh, Chandra Shekhar Azad and Subhas Chandra Bose […]
Ghaziabad, March 15 (IANS) The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Saturday announced that the party’s core committee member Shazia Ilmi will contest the Lok Sabha polls from Ghaziabad constituency. Ilmi, who lost the R.K. Puram assembly seat by a narrow margin, has agreed to contest from Ghaziabad in Uttar Pradesh, the party said. Bharatiya Janata Party president […]
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) A close aide of social activist Anna Hazare Saturday accused him of making baseless allegations regarding the turnout at a recently held rally of West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee in the national capital. Addressing the media, Santosh Bharatiya, a former journalist, said Hazare should have kept […]
New Delhi, March 15 (IANS) BJP leader and former cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu Saturday said he will not fight the Lok Sabha polls from anywhere except Amritsar, which he currently represents. Talking to reporters after a meeting with party president Rajnath Singh, Sidhu said he had no problem with senior party leader Arun Jaitley fighting from […]
Holi is one of the major festivals of India and is the most vibrant of all. The joy of Holi knows no bound. The festival is celebrated across the four corners of India or rather across the globe. The festival is filled with so much fun and frolic that the very mention of the word […]
Kochi, March 15 (IANS) P.C. Chacko, Congress spokesperson and Lok Sabha candidate from Kerala’s Chalakudy constituency, Saturday said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh refused to meet the media despite repeated pleas by party workers. “All of us told him several times that if not once a week, at least once in two weeks he should meet the […]
Agra, March 15 (IANS) As Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav completed two years in office Saturday, questions are being raised over governance and on the promises his Samajwadi Party made in its election manifesto. When Akhilesh Yadav took over as the youngest chief minister of Uttar Pradesh March 15, 2012, tall promises of speedy development […]
Bangalore, March 15 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Arvind Kejriwal began his road show here Saturday to campaign for his party’s candidates contesting the general elections April 17 across Karnataka. “Kejriwal’s maiden road show in the city is drawing curious crowds and enthusiastic youth, including many who are volunteering to canvas for our candidates in […]
Panaji, March 15 (IANS) Police have not made arrests in Goa’s multi-billion rupee illegal mining scam because they are busy crunching data for a judicial probe, according to Chief Minister Manohar Parrikar. Parrikar, who was addressing students at a Bharatiya Janata Party convention in the city Friday, also said that local police officers in Goa cannot […]