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Uttarakhand polls 2022: Congress delegation meets CEC Sushil Chandra
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], December 23 (ANI): A delegation of Congress on Thursday met Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra under the leadership of former Uttarakhand Minister Navprabhat.
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Ahead of 2022 Punjab polls, several former Cabinet ministers, MPs, MLAs li
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 20 (ANI): In a big boost to BJP's strength in Punjab where elections are due early next year, around 15 to 20 people including former state Cabinet ministers, MPs, MLAs, Punjabi singers and celebrities are likely to join the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
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Telangana bypolls: BJP's Eatala Rajender wins Huzurabad seat, defeats TRS
Updated : 4 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad (Telangana) [India], November 2 (ANI): Former cabinet minister and BJP leader Eatala Rajender on Tuesday won the Huzurabad Assembly seat which went to bypolls on October 30.
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Calling for resumption of trade, Sidhu mocks Centre by listing Pak's commo
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], March 28 (ANI): Taking a dig at the Centre, former Cabinet Minister Punjab and Congress leader, Navjot Singh Sidhu "welcomed" talks between India and Pakistan on resumption of trade and listed the difference of prices of various commodities in the two nations.
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UPA chairperson not a PM post, don't think Sharad Pawar wants to be declar
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], December 27 (ANI): With speculations that Sharad Pawar may become chairperson of the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), former cabinet minister and senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said that the post is not that of a Prime Minister, noting that even Pawar wil
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Punjab BJP leader Satpal Gosain passes away; Capt Amarinder condoles demis
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], December 2 (ANI): Satpal Gosain, senior BJP leader and former Cabinet Minister, passed away on Tuesday evening aged 85 at a city hospital in Punjab's Ludhiana after a brief illness.
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SC stays Allahabad HC order directing EC to hold by-polls on UP's Suar ass
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 6 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Friday stayed the Allahabad High court order, which directed the Election Commission to hold by-polls on the Suar assembly seat in Rampur district of Uttar Pradesh, which had fallen vacant after the disqualification of Abdullah Azam K
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Jaswant Singh will be remembered for fashioning foreign policy for nuclear
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 27 (ANI): External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar condoled the demise of former Cabinet Minister Jaswant Singh, who passed away on Sunday morning. Jaishankar said that Singh will be remembered for fashioning a foreign policy for a nuclear India.
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Surjewala says Rahul didn't make 'colluding with BJP' comment, asks Sibal
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 24 (ANI): Minutes after Kapil Sibal expressed concerns over reported "colluding with BJP" remarks by Rahul Gandhi, party leader Randeep Singh Surjewala clarified that the former Congress chief has not said a word of this nature, nor alluded to it and asked the former C
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Great human who had no parallels in Indian polity: Shah on Jaitley's death
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Aug 24 (ANI): Union Ministers including Home Minister Amit Shah on Monday paid tribute to former Cabinet Minister and BJP stalwart Arun Jaitley on his death anniversary.
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Nadda congratulates O P Dhankar on appointment as Haryana BJP chief
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 25 (ANI): BJP president JP Nadda on Saturday congratulated former Cabinet Minister in the Haryana government Om Prakash Dhankar for his appointment as the party's state unit president.
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'Bhanwar Lal Sharma conspiring with Sachin Pilot to topple govt'; MLA refu
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
Jaipur (Rajasthan) [India], July 17 (ANI): In a fresh twist to the political crisis in Rajasthan, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot's loyalists have alleged that Congress MLA and former cabinet minister Bhanwarlal Sharma was making his fifth attempt to topple the state government along with former
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