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TopicManohar Lal Khattar

Topic: Manohar Lal Khattar

Once arrested for blocking Khattar’s convoy, Congress’s young Divyanshu Budhiraja now his poll rival

Congress's pick from Karnal, Budhiraja was declared 'proclaimed offender' in a 2018 public property defacement case for putting up posters. Like ex-CM Khattar, he too is a Punjabi Khatri.

Khattar’s anecdote at Hisar rally stirs up row ahead of polls. ‘Kuldeep, entire Bishnoi community upset’

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.

‘Farewell party’ — Sirsa BJP MP Sunita Duggal takes dig at Khattar after losing ticket to Ashok Tanwar

Sharing the dais with Khattar at a rally, Duggal — a former IRS officer who resigned to join BJP in 2014 — attributed the decision to deny her a ticket to him.

BJP & JJP leaders face tough time in Haryana’s Jat heartland. Farmers protest, boo, force them away

Ambala: When Mohan Lal Badoli, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Haryana’s Sonipat parliamentary seat, went to campaign at Rohna village earlier this...

BJP fields Khattar from Karnal day after replacing him as CM, yet to name candidates for 4 seats

Hisar, Rohtak, Sonipat, Kurukshetra yet to be declared. Party considering actor Randeep Hooda, party national secy OP Dhankar, ex-minister Manish Grover for Rohtak seat, it is learnt.

Ashok Tanwar resigns from AAP over party’s ‘alignment’ with Congress, likely to join BJP

Former MP Ashok Tanwar, AAP’s campaign committee chief for Haryana, joined party in 2022. He met Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar last week.

Bribery-accused IAS officer Vijay Dahiya posted to archive dept days after posting as Karnal commissioner

Dahiya will now be commissioner and secretary to govt of Haryana in the archive department. Dahiya got bail on 28 November, and was subsequently reinstated.

Caregivers in Japan, translators in Uzbekistan, technicians in UAE: Haryana offers more foreign jobs

Vacancies issued months before Haryana goes to polls, where Oppn is likely to make unemployment — second largest among major states — a campaign issue.

Haryana govt plan to send 10,000 construction workers to Israel draws flak — ‘war-affected area’

India & Israel signed agreement on workers in May & Haryana govt corporation advertised posts last week. While govt says it's trying to help youths find jobs, ex-CM Hooda cites dangers.

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Dhankhar’s resignation: How Modi-Shah’s ‘capable’ BJP has served another strong message to RSS

One has to be incredibly credulous to buy BJP spin masters’ argument that the government got rid of Vice President Jagdeep Dhankhar for harmonious relationship with the judiciary.

Unclaimed deposits worth Rs 67,000 crore lying in banks, 87% in public sector banks alone, Parliament told

SBI holds Rs 19,239 crore in unclaimed deposits, or 26% of the abandoned money in public banking system. PNB, Canara Bank follow.

India wanted a stable, prosperous Pakistan but our peace efforts were mistaken for weakness: Rajnath

Modi government had also made numerous efforts to establish peace with Pakistan but has now adopted a different path, militarily, to establish peace, adds defence minister.

Modi’s Bharat vs Indira’s India: 11-yr report card of politics, diplomacy, economy, nationalism

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.