Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha witnessed several adjournments on Friday, with Congress and other opposition parties insisting on a debate on the NEET-UG row and the government keen to take up the motion of thanks on the President's address.
Mansukh Mandaviya, who held the health portfolio in the previous BJP-led NDA government, will be the minister for Youth Affairs and Sports in Prime Minister Narendra Modi's cabinet 3.0.
Union Ministers Amit Shah, Anurag Thakur, and Kiren Rijiju retained their respective Lok Sabha seats as counting concluded in their constituencies on Tuesday.
Union Minister and BJP candidate from Hamirpur, Anurag Thakur, all set for his fifth term, on Tuesday expressed his gratitude towards the people and asserted that his next five years will be dedicated to the people of Hamirpur and Himachal Pradesh.
The mammoth electoral exercise of the Lok Sabha elections will conclude on Saturday with voting for the seventh and last phase of polls on 57 seats across seven states and a union territory
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Thursday took a jibe at the INDIA alliance and questioned if the bloc members cannot become one, how will they unite the country.
"...In six phases, the BJP is winning a record number of seats and the seventh phase is about to take it beyond 400. I would like to thank the people," Thakur said speaking to ANI on Wednesday.
"He is exposed once again. It is visible to everyone that he can do a roadshow in 47-degree temperatures but asks for bail on the pretext of ill health," Thakur said.
Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur will witness the polls in the seventh and last phase of Lok Sabha elections on June 1. The Parliamentary Constituency will see Bhartiya Janata Party's Anurag Thakur against Congress' Satpal Singh Raizada. The Hamirpur Lok Sabha constituency is a stronghold of the