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3 months ago

'Karnataka to test prasada given at major temples': Minister Ramalinga Reddy

BENGALURU: Amidst the controversy over using animal fat in temple prasada given at Thirumala temple in Tirupathi, the Karnataka government is all set to test prasada served to devotees at all major temples in the state, said Endowment minister Ramalinga Reddy. Karnataka has over 34,000 endowment temples, of which 205 are Class-A temples with an annual revenue of over Rs …

Reddy Major Temples Temple Prasada Karnataka Temples

7 months, 2 weeks ago

Class of ’92 in fray: 4 Doon batchmates set for Lok Sabha poll battles

Hindustan Times

New Delhi: The storied Doon School in Dehradun is watching the ongoing elections with a considerable interest, with four of its alumni from the class of 1992 contesting this year. The Bharatiya Janata Party ’s Jitin Prasada and Raghav Lakhanpal are contesting from Uttar Pradesh, Nakul Nath is the Congress’s candidate from Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara and their batchmate Kalikesh Singh …

School Congress Lok Sabha Bjp Class Singh Contesting

8 months ago

Lok Sabha election 2024 phase 1: High-profile constituencies and key candidates

Hindustan Times

Lok Sabha Election 2024 phase 1- Key seats and candidates: The 2024 Lok Sabha elections will be held in India in seven phases, from April 19 to June 1, to elect the 543 members of the Lower House of Parliament. Lok Sabha elections 2024: Congress candidate from Assam's Jorhat Gaurav Gogoi and BJP candidate from Maharashtra's Nagpur Nitin Gadkari. Lok …

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8 months, 1 week ago

Maneka Gandhi's jibe at Robert Vadra, says 'country has moved ahead of son-in-laws'

India TV News

Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Bharatiya Janata Party candidate from Sultanpur, Maneka Gandhi has reacted to speculations that businessman Robert Vadra may contest in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Speaking to India TV, Maneka Gandhi took a jibe at Robert Vadra saying that the country has moved forward from son-in-laws. On Varun Gandhi not being fielded by the BJP, Maneka Gandhi …

Gandhi Lok Sabha Bjp Varun Maneka Gandhi Pilibhit Maneka

8 months, 4 weeks ago

Varun Gandhi feels 'cheated' due to BJP snub, may not contest Lok Sabha polls

India Today

Varun Gandhi, the sitting BJP MP from Pilibhit, feels "cheated" after the party replaced him with former Congress leader Jitin Prasada to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha polls from the constituency in Uttar Pradesh. In its fifth list of candidates, the BJP dropped Varun Gandhi from the Pilibhit Lok Sabha seat but retained his mother, Maneka Gandhi, from Sultanpur in …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Contest Gandhi Lok Sabha Bjp Varun

11 months, 1 week ago

Resignations of the ’powerless’ and a Congress that keeps disappointing

Live Mint

A few months before the countdown begins for the Lok Sabha elections 2024 and Milind Deora's exit has reignited past grievances, underlining how the Congress keeps disappointing its young leaders. MILIND DEORA Milind Deora left the Congress on January 14 and joined Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena for "development". JITIN PRASADA Jitin Prasada, ex-UPA minister and Congress' prominent …

Mumbai Uttar Pradesh Congress Party Shiv Sena Lok Sabha Bjp

2 years, 2 months ago

Kharge vs Tharoor: Congress to get first non-Gandhi president in 24 years today

India TV News

Highlights All sealed ballot boxes from 68 polling booths set up across country have been brought to Delhi The Congress has claimed that its internal democracy has no parallel in any other party It's 6 time in Cong's nearly 137-year-old history that electoral contest is deciding new President Congress President Election: The Congress will get its first non-Gandhi president in …

Election Contest Party Senior Leaders Ballot Polls Kharge

2 years, 2 months ago

UP to host 4-day annual Road Congress from October 8

Hindustan Times

Uttar Pradesh will host a four-day 81st annual convention of Indian Road Congress beginning October 8. The convention will be inaugurated by union minister of road transport and highways Nitin Gadkari and Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath. Addressing a press conference on Saturday the PWD minister Jitin Prasada said it was after 11 years that UP will host annual …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Road Minister Yogi Adityanath Pradesh Union Minister

2 years, 2 months ago

Is Tharoor the New Jitendra Prasada? Gandhis' Nod to Kharge Lays Bare Democracy Myth, Power Dynamics

News 18

Oily, deep-fried bread pakoda and tea is the staple for reporters at the Congress headquarters for any big event; a ‘treat’ offered by the Grand Old Party’s media department. Tharoor’s G-23 allies Manish Tewari and Anand Sharma were seen endorsing Kharge. While most Congress leaders did not want to be seen with Tharoor, leaders flocked to Kharge as he filed …

Congress Kharge Tharoor Prasada

2 years, 3 months ago

Shashi Tharoor plans to run for Congress president?

The Hindu

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor is exploring the possibility of running for the party President’s post, The Hindu has learnt, though the only indication from him is an article he wrote for a Malayalam daily on Monday, in which he expressed hope that several candidates come forward for the contest. Mr. Tharoor, citing the example of the ongoing leadership race in …

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2 years, 3 months ago

Would Congress democratise itself? Unlikely, if one goes by past precedence

India Today

Naysayers have been proven wrong. Arjun Singh, ND Tiwari, K Natwar Singh, Sheila Dixit and others who, in 1995, left the grand old party to form a breakaway Tiwari Congress, returned to the parent organisation in 1997 when the Congress was out of power and Sitaram Kesri was AICC president. WHEN JITTY BHAI TOOK ON SONIA The Congress had witnessed …

Congress Party Gandhi Pawar Rahul President Polls

2 years, 3 months ago

After Anand Sharma, Jaiveer Shergill, Ghulam Nabi Azad's Resignation Jolts Cong

News 18

After dismal performances in Lok Sabha and state Assembly elections in recent years, Congress is witnessing a resignation spree with its young and popular leaders switching sides for better opportunities and positions. Veteran leader Ghulam Nabi Azad became the latest to quit the grand old party, just two days after 39-year-old Jaiveer Shergill’s resignation. He joined the Congress in 2019 …

Congress Gujarat Party Lok Sabha Bjp Sabha Cong

2 years, 5 months ago

Yogi anti-Brahmin bias comes to fore; outrage over I-Day bar on cameramen

Deccan Chronicle

The ongoing developments in the Yogi Adityanath government have not only put the focus back on the Uttar Pradesh chief minister’s centralized style of functioning but also revived talk about his bias against Brahmins. # When Nationalist Congress Party chief Sharad Pawar announced that former Rajasthan governor and senior Congress leader Margaret Alva would be the joint opposition’s candidate for …

Congress Party Bjp Minister Gwalior Yogi Sonia Gandhi

2 years, 5 months ago

BJP had no time for disgruntled UP minister Jitin Prasada

India Today

Uttar Pradesh minister Jitin Prasada, who was in Delhi to meet the BJP high command, was forced to return to Lucknow without meeting party leadership on Wednesday. Earlier this month, the Yogi Adityanath government cracked down on the Public Works Department, after a three-member inquiry committee, comprising chief secretary Durga Shankar Mishra, additional chief secretary home Awanish Awasthi and additional …

Delhi Bjp Minister Meet Yogi Adityanath Prasada Jitin Prasada

2 years, 5 months ago

Jitin Prasada's OSD removed from post over 'irregularities', UP minister to meet Amit Shah

India Today

Uttar Pradesh Public Works Department Minister Jitin Prasada’s Officer on Special Duty, Anil Kumar Pandey has been removed from his post, while five other officers have been suspended following allegations of irregularities and corruption in the department. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had ordered senior bureaucrats to file a report on the allegations. Anil Kumar Pandey had worked with …

Pwd Minister Pandey Prasada Jitin Prasada

2 years, 7 months ago

Sunil Jakhar Latest to Abandon Sinking Cong Ship. From Jitin Prasada to RPN Singh, A Look at Recent Exits

News 18

After months of speculation, which involved a blow hot, blow cold relationship, veteran Congress leader Sunil Jakhar quit the party on Saturday, even as the Grand Old Party has gone into a huddle in Udaipur for a ‘Chintan ‘ Shivir’ to chalk out a roadmap for its rejuvenation. News18 takes a look at the recent Congress exits: Ripun Bora: Former …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Party Union Bjp Minister Punjab

2 years, 10 months ago

UP Elections: A peek into why next-gen leaders are leaving Congress ahead of crucial polls

India TV News

Highlights Next-gen leaders are leaving Congress Party struggles to regain lost ground Out of 166 candidates declared so far by the Cong in UP, 119 are making their electoral debut Synonymous with the Congress in Uttar Pradesh for decades, several families are now losing their new generation to rival organisations, making it even more difficult for the party to regain …

Party Leaders Bjp Singh Tripathi Punia Rampur

2 years, 10 months ago

All 4 Legs of Cot Gone: Why RPN Singh's Exit May Give Congress in UP Sleepless Nights

News 18

In 2016, when Rahul Gandhi started his Khat Yatra from Deoria in Uttar Pradesh, it was RPN Singh who was at the forefront of it, being the biggest leader Congress had from Kushinagar region in eastern UP. It is apparent that all the four leaders in question, RPN Singh, Jitin Prasada, Lalitesh Tripathi and Imran Masood felt they simply cannot …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Party Singh Kushinagar Imran Masood Jitin Prasada

2 years, 10 months ago

'New Chapter in Political Journey': Congress Heavyweight RPN Singh Quits Party, Joins BJP

News 18

In yet another blow for the Congress, which is struggling to keep its house in order ahead of assembly elections, Congress heavyweight and former minister RPN Singh quit the party and joined the BJP ahead of the upcoming assembly elections. Announcing the decision on Twitter, Singh shared his resignation letter addressed to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and said he was …

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3 years, 2 months ago

Amid Lakhimpur Kheri row, Congress and TMC fight each other

India Today

Even as Opposition parties were trying to corner the BJP over the Lakhimpur Kheri violence collectively, a bitter Twitter war erupted between the Congress and the TMC. "People looking for a national alternative based on poaching INC functionaries who can’t win even their seats are in for a big disappointment. — Bhupesh Baghel October 8, 2021 Bhupesh Baghel was apparently …

Congress Bjp Sit Baghel Looking Inc Tmc

3 years, 2 months ago

Jitin Prasada, Sushmita Dev to Kanhaiya & Mevani: Can Rahul Gandhi’s GenNext 2.0 Win Votes?

News 18

The induction of Jignesh Mevani and Kanhaiya Kumar into the Congress can best be described as a marriage of convenience. For Mevani, Independent MLA from Gujarat, and Kumar, former president of the Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union and till recently with the Communist Party of India, joining the Congress means a move to a larger stage even though it is …

Bihar Dalits Dalit Congress Gujarat Party Rahul

3 years, 2 months ago

Jitin Prasada, UP Brahmin & Ex-Congressman, Now a Cabinet Minister in Yogi Govt: All You Need to Know

News 18

Ahead of the 2022 Uttar Pradesh assembly elections, the Council of Ministers headed by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath was expanded on Sunday evening. A popular Brahmin face Jitin Prasada, who switched over to the BJP from the Congress, was also sworn in as a minister in the UP government. Prasada was also in the news during the 2019 Lok Sabha …

Uttar Pradesh Congress Gandhi Lok Sabha Bjp Minister Prasada

3 years, 2 months ago

UP Cabinet Expansion: Jitin Prasada Takes Oath as Minister, Chhatrapal Gangwar, Paltu Ram, 4 Others as MoS

News 18

Former Congress leader Jitin Prasada, BJP leaders Chhatrapal Singh, Paltu Ram, and four others took oath on Sunday as Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath expanded his cabinet ahead of 2022 state assembly elections. LIVE UPDATES: Jitin Prasada, Chhatrapal Gangwar, Paltu Ram Set to Take Oath Ahead of the upcoming assembly elections in the state, the Bharatiya Janata Party is attempting to …

Ministers State Minister Ram Cabinet Yogi Adityanath Yogi

3 years, 6 months ago

Digvijaya Singh known for 'pro-Pakistan' views, says Jitin Prasada

India TV News

Jitin Prasada, who recently quit the Congress and joined the BJP, criticised Digvijaya Singh on Saturday for his "pro-Pakistan" views after the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister in an audio chat purportedly said that the Congress will have a "relook" at the nullification of Article 370 if the Modi government loses power. This way one day he might even condemn …

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'Karnataka to test prasada given at major temples': Minister Ramalinga Reddy

Class of ’92 in fray: 4 Doon batchmates set for Lok Sabha poll battles

Lok Sabha election 2024 phase 1: High-profile constituencies and key candidates

Maneka Gandhi's jibe at Robert Vadra, says 'country has moved ahead of son-in-laws'

Varun Gandhi feels 'cheated' due to BJP snub, may not contest Lok Sabha polls

Resignations of the ’powerless’ and a Congress that keeps disappointing

Kharge vs Tharoor: Congress to get first non-Gandhi president in 24 years today

UP to host 4-day annual Road Congress from October 8

Is Tharoor the New Jitendra Prasada? Gandhis' Nod to Kharge Lays Bare Democracy Myth, Power Dynamics

Shashi Tharoor plans to run for Congress president?

Would Congress democratise itself? Unlikely, if one goes by past precedence

After Anand Sharma, Jaiveer Shergill, Ghulam Nabi Azad's Resignation Jolts Cong

Yogi anti-Brahmin bias comes to fore; outrage over I-Day bar on cameramen

BJP had no time for disgruntled UP minister Jitin Prasada

Jitin Prasada's OSD removed from post over 'irregularities', UP minister to meet Amit Shah

Sunil Jakhar Latest to Abandon Sinking Cong Ship. From Jitin Prasada to RPN Singh, A Look at Recent Exits

UP Elections: A peek into why next-gen leaders are leaving Congress ahead of crucial polls

All 4 Legs of Cot Gone: Why RPN Singh's Exit May Give Congress in UP Sleepless Nights

'New Chapter in Political Journey': Congress Heavyweight RPN Singh Quits Party, Joins BJP

Amid Lakhimpur Kheri row, Congress and TMC fight each other

Jitin Prasada, Sushmita Dev to Kanhaiya & Mevani: Can Rahul Gandhi’s GenNext 2.0 Win Votes?

Jitin Prasada, UP Brahmin & Ex-Congressman, Now a Cabinet Minister in Yogi Govt: All You Need to Know

UP Cabinet Expansion: Jitin Prasada Takes Oath as Minister, Chhatrapal Gangwar, Paltu Ram, 4 Others as MoS

Digvijaya Singh known for 'pro-Pakistan' views, says Jitin Prasada