Within a week after joining the Bharatiya Janata Party, the former Aam Aadmi Party leader Kailash Gahlot has been appointed as a member of the party's Delhi Assembly Election Coordination Committee, reported ANI on Saturday. BJP's Delhi unit president Virendra Sachdeva and national media head Anil Baluni among others were also present at the time when Gehlot joined the party. …
KANNIYAKUMARI: After the Congress announced C Tharahai Cuthbert as its candidate for the by-election in Vilavancode Assembly, the party leaders here said that caste played a big role in the selection of candidates from the fishers’ community, as the majority Nadar community has been sidelined for years. Tharahai, 47, had served as party’s Kanniyakumari west district president briefly and also …
The Congress held a series of important meetings on Monday as the party gears for the Lok Sabha elections. The Manifesto Committee, headed by former Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, discussed the draft manifesto and separately, meetings of screening committees were held to shortlist candidates for the Lok Sabha elections. On Saturday, The Hindu had reported that giving legal guarantee to …
The Election Commission of India on Monday issued a letter to Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge to clarify and rectify the party's social media post on Karnataka's “sovereignty” remark attributed to its senior leader Sonia Gandhi, following a complaint by the Bharatiya Janata Party. The panel said in the complaint, the BJP alleged, "Karnataka, is a very important member state in …
