The head priest of the Shiva shrine is a Veerashaiva-Lingayat, and the BJP hopes Modi's visit to the temple before launching his Karnataka campaign will help win the hearts of Lingayats.
The Jat-dominated INLD has been out of power in the state for the past three terms, its chief, five-time CM O.P. Chautala, is serving jail term in a graft case.
Party MPs and MLAs say appointing the Rajput leader will hurt the party in election year, push for another MoS, a Dalit — Arjun Ram Meghwal — as state chief.
Introduced in 1959, the 45-minute flag-lowering ceremony at the Attari-Wagah border was a low-key affair for decades but now draws hundreds of visitors daily.
State Congress president Niranjan Patnaik lists the challenges his party faces in Odisha, says it’s difficult but not impossible for Congress to dislodge the ruling BJD.
Consider Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar’s duet ‘Chhod Do Aanchal’. The sequence was set in a flower garden, and the girl’s bashfulness was not even remotely relatable to a cabaret dancer.
We now live in a world order that will keep shifting. India must use this window. This also means we remain disciplined enough not to be knee-jerked into reacting to what Pakistan sees as its moment in the sun.
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