MLAs Sudhir Sharma & Rajinder Rana have been expressing dissatisfaction with party leadership for quite some time. Abhishek Manu Singhvi is Congress candidate from hill state.
Kunda strongman will be key to ensuring victory of BJP's eighth candidate. Similarly, SP needs outside support for its third nominee. RS polls to take place Tuesday.
Apna Dal (Kamerawadi)’s Pallavi Patel has objected to SP’s nominations of Jaya Bachchan & Alok Ranjan. For SP, this comes less than a week after former ally RLD joined NDA fold.
Born into a family of farmers, Dholakia is a philanthropist businessman from Surat. He was announced as one of the BJP’s four nominees for Rajya Sabha polls scheduled for 27 February.
Party insiders say the veteran leader is seen as someone who is submissive to Nitish Kumar. Central leadership has announced Bhim Singh & Dharamshila Gupta as nominees.
Election Commission allotted the new name a day after it recognised Ajit Pawar faction as the real NCP. New name is only for Rajya Sabha polls this month, the poll body says.
According to Election Commission of India note released Monday, term of office of 56 members of the Council of States elected from 15 states is due to expire on their retirement in April.
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.
While Congress appears to be imploding in Punjab, intense factionalism has surfaced in the Haryana and Rajasthan units in the run-up to the 10 June Rajya Sabha polls.
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.
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