It’s a muted election season in Haryana’s Adampur, and all eyes are on Kuldeep Bishnoi. The big question: Will he stand by the BJP after they sidelined him?
The former Haryana CM narrated anecdote about bribery without taking names but apparently referring to Kuldeep's father & ex-CM Bhajan Lal. Later said remarks were wrongly projected.
Son of former Haryana CM Bhajan Lal, Bishnoi defected to BJP from Congress in August 2022. But he is far from the centre stage, with little to show other than Adampur assembly seat.
Over 1.5 lakh expected to attend nuptial events of Bhavya & Pari. Card-and-'peele chawal' invites to go to all in family's Adampur seat. BJP leader visits 86 villages to extend personal invites.
Hisar is currently represented by Brijendra Singh of the BJP, who won the seat in 2019 by defeating Dushyant Chautala of JJP and Kuldeep Bishnoi's son Bhavya, then with the Congress.
Adampur bypoll was necessitated after Kuldeep Bishnoi resigned from Congress & switched to BJP. Bhavya wins by 16,000-plus votes over his nearest rival Jai Parkash of Congress
Bhavya Bishnoi is the son of Kuldeep Bishnoi, who was expelled from Congress in June for cross-voting. The BJP hopes that having the Bishnoi family will help clinch the seat.
Poll rival-turned-party colleague Kuldeep Bishnoi and Haryana BJP minister Kamal Gupta were present at funeral. With kin alleging murder, Goa Police have arrested 2 of Phogat's aides.
Party functionaries claim Randeep Surjewala, a known Hooda detractor, didn't want to risk contesting from Haryana, and was hence given a safe seat to contest from in Rajasthan.
In Episode 1544 of CutTheClutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta looks at some top economists pointing to the pitfalls of ‘currency nationalism’ with data from 1991 to 2004.
Among 19 Indian firms sanctioned by US Treasury Dept was Lokesh Machines Ltd accused of coordinating with 'Russian defence procurement agent to import Italy-origin CNC machines'.
While we talk much about our military, we don’t put our national wallet where our mouth is. Nobody is saying we should double our defence spending, but current declining trend must be reversed.
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