CALCUTTA: Playing with Mamata Banerjee’s 2011 winning slogan of “paribartan (change)” while declaring that the “game” for her party was over, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday pitted BJP’s “development politics” against the Trinamool’s “model of corruption and violence” and urged Bengal voters to help him usher in “ashol paribartan …
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NEW DELHI: To end weeks of speculation, veteran actor Mithun Chakraborty joined the BJP at a rally in Kolkata on Sunday. Chakraborty, a former member of TMC Rajya Sabha, was greeted by the BJP’s national secretary general, Kailash Vijayvargiya, and the state president, Dilip Ghosh, among others. Addressing a sea …
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BEFORE Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s first rally in West Bengal after the election calendar was declared, at the historic Brigade Parade Ground, on Saturday BJP threw another gauntlet in the high-voltage battle for the state. He announced that he will deploy Suvendu Adhikari, the Trinamool leader who recently passed to …
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KOLKATA: Former Mamata Banerjee acolyte Suvendu Adhikari was officially named on Saturday as the BJP candidate who will contest Nandigram’s high-risk seat against her. BJP National Secretary General Arun Singh announced Adhikari’s candidacy at the party headquarters in Delhi and published a list of 57 nominees for the 60 seats …
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Former Railways Minister and Trinamool Rajya Sabha Congressman Dinesh Trivedi joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday, the latest in a long list of such defections in recent months before the Assembly elections. Moments after joining the BJP, Trivedi said, “The golden moment I have been waiting for.” Trivedi …
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NEW DELHI: Union Minister V Muraleedharan who announced that the former head of the Delhi metro, E Sreedharan, would be the BJPThe main ministerial candidate in Kerala issued a clarification saying that the party had not yet made a final decision. “There were some statements that E Sreedharan will be …
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Kerala Assembly Election 2021: ‘Metro man’ E Sreedharan joined the BJP last month (Archive) Thiruvananthapuram: In Sreedharan, India’s ‘metropolitan man’ will be the BJP’s top ministerial candidate for next month’s Kerala Assembly elections, Union Minister V Muraleedharan tweeted on Thursday night. “Kerala BJP Will Fight Kerala Polls With E SreedharanHee …
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Sasikala announced her decision to leave politics on Wednesday. For thirty years, VK Sasikala was known for her association with the most powerful woman in Tamil Nadu. Described by most as a friend of Jayalalithaa, a ‘shadow’ by some others, it was the late Chief Minister, who saved the kindest …
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