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TopicAjay Rai

Topic: Ajay Rai

Gujarat contractors ‘prevailing’ — UP Congress chief targets firm behind Kashi Vishwanath project

Ajay Rai says 'people of Amethi miss Rahul Gandhi' and UP Congress will stand by Priyanka 'with full might' if she decides to contest 2024 polls from Varanasi.

Amid Vedic chants & sea of supporters, Ajay Rai takes charge of UP Congress — ‘let’s make Rahul PM’

Rai’s first message to party workers was to strive to make Rahul Gandhi the prime minister in 2024, and he asked them to ‘spend every hour and day’ to achieve the goal.

‘Rahul Gandhi will fight from Amethi in 2024 polls,’ says Congress’s new UP chief Ajay Rai

Day after his appointment, Rai says if Priyanka wishes to contest from Varanasi, 'each and every worker will fight for their lives'. Varanasi is Modi’s parliamentary seat.

Party hopper, five-time MLA, faced Modi in Varanasi — who is new UP Congress chief Ajay Rai

Ajay Rai contested his first assembly election in 1996 & was fielded by Congress against Narendra Modi in Varanasi in 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

No Priyanka vs Modi fight in Varanasi as Congress fields Ajay Rai

Ajay Rai, who is considered a local strongman in Varanasi, came third in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, after PM Modi and Arvind Kejriwal.

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Menstrual leave doesn’t work in ‘real world’. And that real world is designed by, for men

When a woman menstruates, when/if she decides to marry, when/if she decides to have kids, should not be factors when looking at a woman’s potential from a hiring standpoint.

US strike on Iran’s key oil export island Kharg raises fears of wider supply disruption

President Trump said the US had bombed military targets on Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf, but spared oil infrastructure.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.