The UP CM will unveil a 15-foot statue of the 9th century king on the campus of Mihir Bhoj PG College in Dadri, in what is being seen as a political move ahead of polls.
Farmers from Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and UP have sent their children to the Army for generations. But ‘Jai Jawan, Jai Kisan’ has become just a rhetoric.
Birender Singh is the grandson of Chhotu Ram, an illustrious farmer-politician who helped set up mandis in 1939 in united Punjab to regulate the sale and purchase of farm produce.
Biplab Kumar Deb stirred up controversy Sunday when he said Punjabis and Jats are physically strong but less brainy while Bengalis are known to be very intelligent.
The Tripura CM's comments at a conference Sunday are the latest in a long string of such faux pas. He once said satellite tech existed in ancient India and that Buddha had walked to Japan.
BJP benefited immensely from Jat support in Lok Sabha elections that helped it win all 10 seats. For assembly polls, however, Jats are looking at closer home.
The BJP is once again relying on the strategy it adopted in some of the seats in 2014 — of fielding non-Jats in Jat areas and a non-Brahmin in a Brahmin seat.
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.
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