During debate on 2 bills for Jammu and Kashmir, Union Home Minister Amit Shah claimed Jawaharlal Nehru later told Sheikh Abdullah that these moves were a ‘mistake’ on India's part.
Besides aspirational seats, BJP identified 89 assembly seats where it doubled-down on efforts to spread awareness about govt schemes & get more voters to show up on polling day.
Former CM is in Delhi to meet party leadership after Congress tally was reduced from 114 to 66 in 230-member assembly. Earlier, he had raised suspicion on EVMs.
Shivraj, Raje, Raman Singh may be out of race, it is learnt. Union ministers Arjun Meghwal and Gajendra Shekhawat, MPs Diya Kumari, Rajyavardhan Rathore, CP Joshi said to be in running.
Both Jammu and Kashmir Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill and the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill seek to bring in reservation-related changes.
Others in race included Uttam Kumar Reddy & Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka but Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge picked Revanth Reddy to head party's government in Telangana.
BJP based its campaign in Rajasthan, MP & Chhattisgarh on ‘collective leadership’, seen as a euphemism for new leadership. But there’s a ‘rethink’ in MP at least.
Revanth Reddy was the frontrunner for top post in the state after the party staged a stupendous victory in assembly elections by winning 64 seats in Telangana, upstaging the BRS.
JJP contested Rajasthan assembly polls with the claim that it would emerge as kingmaker in Haryana with ‘key (also the election symbol of the JJP) to Vidhan Sabha in its hand’.
The words she wrote in our autograph book echo in my mind now: 'Mar kar bhi jo jeete hain, wohi jeete hain'—The only lives worth living are those remembered long after death.
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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