Tag Archives: Bharatiya Janata Party

LAHDC-Leh Poll: BJP Wins 6 Seats; counting up

The saffron party managed to sweep the 5 seats of the Nubra valley, with a significant Muslim population The BJP has won six of the 26 seats as of Monday noon, as the count of 19 seats is underway for the Ladakh Autonomous Development Council (LAHDC), Leh, which manages local …

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Why Congress is silent on rape in Punjab: Nirmala Sitharaman

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday questioned the congressional silence on the alleged rape and murder of a six-year-old Dalit girl in Punjab’s Hoshiarpur this week while criticizing the party’s “selective outrage” over crimes against women. The girl’s family is from Bihar. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said rape …

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Outrage over the closure of the Kashmir Times office

Jammu and Kashmir authorities sealed off the Srinagar office of the Kashmir Times, one of the region’s oldest and most prominent English-language newspapers, the publication said on Tuesday. Political parties and journalists criticized the move, but the state heritage department said the facility was not being used as an office, …

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