Kharge appointed former Maharashtra CM Sushil Kumar Shinde and Congress leaders Jitendra Singh & Deepak Babaria as observers for the election of the Congress Legislative party leader.
The party which won 135 of 224 seats in the Karnataka elections, moved beyond traditional constituencies to make gains in Kittur-Karnataka, central districts and the Old Mysuru region.
BJP changed strategy closer to polls and sought to underplay Hindutva, but reverted to it in last leg of campaign. While campaigning, trio frequently spoke about Tipu Sultan, hijab, halal.
Despite resentment over poor infra, floods, potholes, BJP manages to increase seat share to 15 from 11 in 2018. Congress's Dinesh Gundu Rao retains Gandhi Nagar by wafer thin margin.
The party’s win is also being seen as a victory for Gandhi’s Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir ‘Bharat Jodo Yatra’ which he undertook from September last year to January 2023.
Reddy, who floated a new party in December last year after fallout with the BJP, defeated his nearest rival, the Congress’s Iqbal Ansari, by a margin of 8,266 votes.
Is there a place for a counter-bureaucracy, or a separate and competing bureaucracy to counterbalance the force of the executive’s bureaucracy, asked author MH Mody in 1980.
With bad loans shrinking & capital buffers stronger, urban co-op banks’ new umbrella body NUCFDC is now prioritising rollout of digital transformation.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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