Jyoti Malhotra visited the state for a routine tourism campaign handled by external agencies, says Kerala Tourism Minister Mohammed Riyas as BJP attacks his govt over her 2024-25 trips.
Congress-led UDF seems to be taking the wrong lessons from the Nilambur bypoll. The ruling CPI-M is leveraging even the loss to build its narrative for the assembly election.
Though absent, Leader of Opposition Satheesan shared a video of late chief minister Oommen Chandy’s speech about the port in the Kerala Assembly from 2015 on social media.
Satheesan's stocks are high after his successful election engineering post Palakkad bypolls. And the old guard have seemingly come to resent his growing dominance in Congress party.
Shashi Tharoor should get the Oomen Chandy faction’s backing, but K.C. Venugopal, V.D. Satheesan and Ramesh Chennithala can gang up to deny him the opportunity.
What should be of concern is other states following suit and enacting separate laws to suit the political environment of respective states citing the Punjab bill as a precedent.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
BJP has no dynastic succession, at least not at the top. You can trace this back to Vajpayee-Advani era. This act of spotting, empowering younger talent is even more striking with the choice of BJP presidents.
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