Three of the five Gujarat assembly seats where BJP has won for the 1st time are from the tribal belt and Halpati, a tribal leader, was made minister of state for tribal affairs Monday.
Sixteen legislators including lone woman MLA inducted into CM Bhupendra Patel’s new council of ministers. Hardik, Alpesh left out, Kanu Desai, Kuber Dindor among ministers retained.
Party leaders say Gujarat BJP president's work in state is now done, paving way for him to become 'a minister or get a bigger role in organisation'. Patil says Modi will decide.
AAP’s absence could have helped Congress — which won in 17 seats — secure 33 more and might have brought BJP’s tally down from 156 to 123 in the assembly.
Celebrations at BJP headquarters in Delhi started early, as counting of votes indicated sweeping victory in Gujarat. ThePrint's Suraj Singh Bisht & Manisha Mondal bring moments from the festivities.
AAP's performance in Gujarat polls, where it won five seats, has made it a third force in a traditionally bipolar state. With this, it is all set to get the status of a national party.
As counting of votes for 2022 Gujarat assembly elections indicated sweeping victory for BJP, ThePrint's Praveen Jain captured mood at party office in Gandhinagar & on Ahmedabad streets.
While Thakor & Patel, once considered close to Rahul Gandhi, contested this Gujarat election on BJP tickets, Mevani, who had won in 2017 as an Independent, is now with Congress.
Identified at 111 sites, many of them in Southeast Rajasthan, the Ahar culture had a sophisticated social structure centred around copper, lead, zinc, and silver mines.
Diving into workings of Gurugram fulfilment centre, Abhinav Singh, V-P (Ops) at Amazon India, offers insights into how company manages logistics, in conversation with ThePrint Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta.
In latest editions of its newsletter ‘Baatcheet’, the Indian Army also names the creators of the Operation Sindoor logo – Lt Col Harish Gupta and Havildar Surinder Singh.
India is better positioned in the world than at any point post-Cold war. We have to decide if global opinion matters to us or not. If it does, we must engage with their media, think tanks, civil society.
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