Apart from elected councillors, 10 Delhi MPs & 14 MLAs are eligible to vote in mayoral election. But it is assembly Speaker’s discretion which MLAs to call for ballot.
BJP insiders say many were unhappy with ticket distribution & this was ignored despite conveying it to leadership. But another section asserts party faced huge anti-incumbency.
At a rally held in Delhi Wednesday, Union minister for road transport & highways Nitin Gadkari focussed on his ministry’s schemes to woo voters in order to retain BJP's hold over MCD.
BJP has deployed chief ministers, Union ministers to woo Delhiites but with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal campaigning in Gujarat, AAP is stressing on personal outreach.
Section of party leaders feel BJP needs to now highlight work done by its councillors & focus on reaching out to voters. Union ministers to campaign in coming days.
Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?
SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.
India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.
Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.
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