Vice President Dhankhar, Speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha Om Birla, Union Minister Kiren Rijiju, Rajya Sabha Deputy Chairman Harivansh Narayan Singh, and Union Ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw, Arjun Ram Meghwal and L Murugan also paid tribute to Mahatma Gandhi on the occasion.
Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami hailed the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) resounding success in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in Uttarakhand as a victory of 'Team BJP's' diligent workers and the 12.5 million residents of the state.
Vanrai Police Station filed an FIR against Mangesh Pandilkar, a relative of Shiv Sena leader Ravindra Waikar. Pandilkar had allegedly carried a mobile phone inside a counting centre in Goregaon. FIR was also registered against a polling personnel Dinesh Gurav.
BJP's Uttarakhand in-charge Dushyant Gautam on Sunday said that workers (karyakartas) played a very big role in party's victory in five Lok Sabha seats in the state.
Reacting to the upcoming appointment of the new Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the Lok Sabha, Om Birla said on Sunday that all these decisions are taken by political parties and he has no role in it.
While addressing a public meeting in Coimbatore on Saturday, the Tamil Nadu CM also targeted the BJP over its slogan of 'Abki Baar, 400 Paar', saying, "Despite a lot of efforts, the BJP got only 240 seats."
In the recently concluded Lok Sabha election the BJP won 240 seats, much lower than its 2019 tally of 303. The Congress, on the other hand, registered a strong improvement, winning 99 seats. While the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance won 292 seats, the INDIA bloc crossed the 230 mark, po
"TMC is doing this to try to destroy the opposition before the next elections. They do not have enough mandate," Adhikari, the Leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly said speaking to reporters in Siliguri on Saturday.
The Minister for IT and Electronics, Nara Lokesh, on Saturday sought the details of the dues to be paid to the students across the state under Vidya Deevena and the Vasati Deevena schemes.
The price of petrol has surged by Rs 3, bringing the cost per litre in Bengaluru to Rs 102.84, up from the previous rate of Rs 99.84. Similarly, the price of diesel has increased by Rs 3.02, raising the cost per litre from Rs 85.93 to Rs 88.95.