The Election Commission said the elections in Rajasthan, Mizoram, Telangana and Madhya Pradesh will be held in a single phase whereas Chhattisgarh will have a second phase of voting.
Veteran BJP leader and former Lok Sabha Speaker Mahajan is said to be seeking a party ticket for son Mandhar, for upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly elections.
There are growing differences in Madhya Pradesh BJP, while high command is considering promoting fresh faces and looking beyond CM Chouhan to lead party in state, it is learnt.
BJP released its first list of candidates for Madhya Pradesh earlier this month, covering 39 seats where it sees itself as weak. The party lost 38 of these in the 2018 election.
Statement comes after posters appeared bearing Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan's face on a QR code with slogan saying 'give 50% commission on PhonePe, and get your job done'.
Viral photo is purportedly from RSS’s ‘Samarpan Samaroh’ held at Satna on 11 June. Congress says it’s compiling a list of such ‘partisan officials’ and also writing to central govt.
While BJP leaders said Chouhan's attacks on predecessor Nath part of party strategy 'to remain on offensive', Congress said it's opposition's role to question govt shortcomings.
AIMIM also came third in 2 mayoral elections, including in Burhanpur where it got some 10,000 votes while BJP narrowly edged out Congress to win. Results of first phase announced Sunday.
The collusion between the new class of bureaucrats, politicians, businessmen and trade union bosses perpetuates itself partly because of the short-run benefits and partly because they see no way out of the system, wrote author MH Mody in 1980.
IAF is firming up plans to revamp airlift capabilities with medium transport aircraft that will be assembled in India & serve as its main workhorse. Embraer is leading contender as of now.
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