Delhi CM Kejriwal recommends Raaj Kumar Anand for Cabinet berth after Rajendra Pal Gautam's resignation
2 years, 2 months ago

Delhi CM Kejriwal recommends Raaj Kumar Anand for Cabinet berth after Rajendra Pal Gautam's resignation

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A first-time MLA, who won from the Patel Nagar constituency in 2020, Anand, also from the Jatav community like Gautam, is a postgraduate in political science and joined the anti-corruption movement along with his wife Veena Anand in 2011 New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday said he has recommended Patel Nagar MLA Raaj Kumar Anand’s name to the lieutenant governor for including him in the Cabinet, days after Rajendra Pal Gautam resigned as a minister following a row over his presence at a religious conversion event. During a media briefing on the achievements of the Dialogue and Development Commission of Delhi in the last seven years, Kejriwal said he has written to Delhi Lieutenant Governor V K Saxena recommending Anand’s name. He is a postgraduate in political science and had joined the anti-corruption movement along with his wife Veena Anand in 2011. In 2020, Raaj Kumar Anand contested the assembly polls from the seat and won it.

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Former AAP Minister Raaj Kumar Anand joins BJP
5 months, 1 week ago

Former AAP Minister Raaj Kumar Anand joins BJP

The Hindu  

Former Aam Aadmi Party Minister Raaj Kumar Anand, along with the party’s Chhatarpur MLA Kartar Singh Tanwar, joined the BJP on Wednesday. Several other AAP leaders, including city councillor Umed Singh Phogat and former AAP in-charge of Himachal Pradesh Ratnesh Gupta, also joined the BJP. The BJP’s strength has also reduced from eight to seven by one after Ramvir Singh …

AAP Chhatarpur MLA Kartar Singh Tanwar, former Delhi minister Raaj Kumar Anand join BJP
5 months, 2 weeks ago

AAP Chhatarpur MLA Kartar Singh Tanwar, former Delhi minister Raaj Kumar Anand join BJP

India TV News  

New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party Chhatarpur MLA Kartar Singh Tanwar and former Delhi minister Raaj Kumar Anand on Wednesday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in the national capital. Raaj Kumar Anand left AAP in April Anand, who hails from the Dalit community, was a minister in the government led by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, …

AAP MLA Raaj Kumar Anand, who fought LS polls on BSP ticket, disqualified
6 months, 1 week ago

AAP MLA Raaj Kumar Anand, who fought LS polls on BSP ticket, disqualified

Hindustan Times  

NEW DELHI: Delhi assembly speaker Ram Niwas Goel disqualified Aam Aadmi Party legislator Raaj Kumar Anand from the assembly on Friday, a move that comes five weeks after the former minister joined the Bahujan Samaj Party and contested the Lok Sabha elections from the New Delhi seat. Former Delhi minister Raaj Kumar Anand, who joined Bahujan Samaj Party, arrives to …

Former Delhi Minister Raaj Kumar Anand disqualified from membership of assembly
6 months, 1 week ago

Former Delhi Minister Raaj Kumar Anand disqualified from membership of assembly

India TV News  

New Delhi: Former minister Raaj Kumar Anand has been disqualified from membership of the Delhi assembly, said Speaker Ram Niwas Goel on Friday. Anand had resigned from the Aam Aadmi Party and the post of minister in the Delhi government in April to join the Bahujan Samaj Party. Raaj Kumar Anand joins BSP Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, Anand …

Patel Nagar Election Result 2020 Live Updates: Raaj Kumar Anand (AAP) Wins
7 months ago

Patel Nagar Election Result 2020 Live Updates: Raaj Kumar Anand (AAP) Wins

News 18  

Patel Nagar, is an Assembly/Vidhan Sabha seat in West Delhi region and New Delhi district of Delhi and falls under the North Delhi Municipal Corporation. Candidates 2020: The candidates contesting in the 2020 Delhi Assembly elections from Patel Nagar are: Krishna, Pradeep Kumar Rawal, Pravesh Ratn, Raaj Kumar Anand. Patel Nagar PATEL NAGAR, WEST DELHI Poll dates: The seat went …

Raaj Kumar Anand joins BSP, to contest New Delhi seat
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Raaj Kumar Anand joins BSP, to contest New Delhi seat

Hindustan Times  

Former Delhi social welfare minister Raaj Kumar Anand, who resigned from the Delhi cabinet and the Aam Aadmi Party a month ago, joined the Bahujan Samaj Party on Sunday, terming his stint with the AAP a “bad dream”. He is likely to contest the New Delhi Lok Sabha constituency on the party’s ticket. We did not see politics change, but …

Delhi Minister Raaj Kumar Anand resigns, quits AAP
8 months, 1 week ago

Delhi Minister Raaj Kumar Anand resigns, quits AAP

The Hindu  

Delhi’s Social Welfare Minister Raaj Kumar Anand on Wednesday resigned from his post and also gave up his primary membership of the Aam Aadmi Party, saying he had joined a party that was born out of the movement against corruption but had itself got stuck in the “quicksand of corruption”. Mr. Anand’s is the first high-profile exit from AAP since …

Delhi Minister Raaj Kumar Anand Resigns From Kejriwal Cabinet, Quits AAP Over Corruption
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Delhi Minister Raaj Kumar Anand Resigns From Kejriwal Cabinet, Quits AAP Over Corruption

News 18  

Delhi Social Welfare Minister Raaj Kumar Anand has resigned from the Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Cabinet and the Aam Aadmi Party alleging that the party was “neck deep into corruption”. In a clear reference to the arrests of AAP leaders, including Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, in the now-scrapped Delhi Excise Policy scam, he said, “I have handled seven portfolios …

AAP minister Raaj Kumar Anand resigns from govt, party citing corruption, more trouble for Kejriwal
8 months, 2 weeks ago

AAP minister Raaj Kumar Anand resigns from govt, party citing corruption, more trouble for Kejriwal

Hindustan Times  

Delhi social welfare minister Raaj Kumar Anand on Wednesday resigned from his post as a minister and also from the Aam Aadmi Party accusing the party of corruption. Delhi minister Raaj Kumar Anand resigned from his post and also from the Aam Aadmi Party citing corruption, "Arvind Kejriwal once said at Ramlila Maidan, Jantar Mantar 'the country will change if …

BJP’s MPs-turned-MLAs quit Parliament as CM race heats up in three States
1 year ago

BJP’s MPs-turned-MLAs quit Parliament as CM race heats up in three States

The Hindu  

The BJP on December 6 decided that all 12 of its MPs who have been elected as MLAs in the recently concluded Assembly polls in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, and Chhattisgarh will quit their parliamentary membership, including Union Ministers Narendra Singh Tomar and Prahlad Singh Patel. Against that backdrop, the decision that all MPs-turned-MLAs will quit Parliament has given rise to …

Ghulam Nabi Azad’s road to resignation from Congress
2 years, 3 months ago

Ghulam Nabi Azad’s road to resignation from Congress

Hindustan Times  

There had been a growing distance between former Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad and the top leadership of the party for the past two years even though their separation officially took place on August 26. In one instance of friction in 2019, Ghulam Nabi Azad returned to work, irking Rahul Gandhi, when the Congress continued protests in the Lok Sabha …

Anand Sharma quits as chairman of Steering Committee of Himachal Congress
2 years, 4 months ago

Anand Sharma quits as chairman of Steering Committee of Himachal Congress

India TV News  

Highlights Senior leader Anand Sharma resigned from chairmanship of steering committee It's a big jolt to Congress ahead of assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh His resignation comes soon after Azad resigned as chairman of the campaign committee in J&K In a jolt to the Congress ahead of assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh, its senior leader Anand Sharma on Sunday resigned …

Lovely Anand (RJD) Election Result 2020 Live Updates: Lovely Anand of RJD Loses
4 years, 1 month ago

Lovely Anand (RJD) Election Result 2020 Live Updates: Lovely Anand of RJD Loses

News 18  

She is a former MP and the wife of strongman Anand Mohan and is contesting from the Saharsa assembly seat as an RJD candidate. She had beat parliamentarian Kishori Sinha, the wife of former Bihar Chief Minister Satyendra Narayan Sinha, in a 1994 Lok Sabha by-election in the north Bihar constituency of Vaishali. Lovely Anand is a RJD candidate from …

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