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Monday, July 28, 2025
TopicChief Ministers

Topic: Chief Ministers

On Maharashtra tour, why Amit Shah inaugurated former Congress CM Vasantrao Naik’s statue

Vasantrao Naik was born in the politically significant Banjara community, and the Naik dynasty has had a huge following among community members.

Modi’s big focus on Op Sindoor, Oppn CMs’ demands, no Mamata or Nitish—key highlights of NITI Aayog meet

PM Modi chaired 10th governing council meeting of NITI Aayog Saturday, interacting with CMs and L-Gs of all states and UTs under one roof, barring a few noticeable absentees.

Shankarrao Chavan to Fadnavis, Maharashtra CMs who had to give up post & settle for a downgrade

There have been many tall leaders who have first served as CM and then taken up relatively junior positions in the government to accommodate political compulsions from time to time.

How family members of Hemant Soren & 4 former Jharkhand CMs are faring this election

Apart from Heman Soren's wife Kalpana Soren, family members of ex-CMs Champai Soren, Madhu Kora, Raghubar Das, and Arjun Munda contested the Jharkhand assembly election.

Who are India’s richest & poorest CMs? Who has most guns? Election affidavits have all the answers

An analysis of the latest election affidavits filed by 30 of India’s chief ministers shows a wide disparity in terms of their wealth and assets. Here are seven interesting facts about India’s chief ministers.

Justice Arumughaswamy commission assigned to probe J Jayalalithaa’s death, submits report

Justice Arumughaswamy later spoke to reporters and said that a 500-odd pages report in English and around 600 pages in Tamil was prepared after hearing about 150 witnesses.

Concerned about courts taking up ‘politically forced cases’, says Mamata Banerjee

At CM-CJ meeting, Banerjee said that high courts' taking up such cases eats into court's time. It comes after Calcutta HC gave CBI the Birbhum massacre probe.

CMs violate IAS seniority rules too often with pick-and-choose game for chief secretaries

From Jayalalithaa to Amarinder Singh, chief ministers throughout the years seem to have ignored the seniority principle in choosing chief secretaries.

Retd IAS officers aren’t bound by any code of conduct. There should be no room for them in CMO

Gujarat under Narendra Modi started it, India now must end the CMO culture of letting retired IAS officers in.

India has two kinds of chief ministers. Regional stars, and BJP-Congress pick-and-throw

Kejriwal, Stalin, Jagan, Mamata are the karta dhartas of regional parties. While CMs of BJP and Congress are at the mercy of moody high command.

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Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

As Narendra Modi becomes India’s second-longest consecutively serving Prime Minister, we look at how he compares with Indira Gandhi across four key dimensions.