Girish Chodankar resigns as Goa Congress chief after party's poor show in Assembly polls
India | Mar 15, 2022, 12:15 PM ISTGirish Chodankar was at the helm of affairs of the Congress during the recent elections held for the 40-member Goa Assembly.
Girish Chodankar was at the helm of affairs of the Congress during the recent elections held for the 40-member Goa Assembly.
Speaking at the BJP parliamentary party meeting, PM Modi asked the MPs to fight against dynasty politics as it is dangerous for democracy.
In the latest round of assembly elections, the BJP won Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur, and on its own it touched the halfway mark in Goa. Punjab was won by the AAP.
Senior Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge said that they all told Sonia Gandhi that she alone is not responsible for the defeat of the Congress party in 5 states but every state leader, MP is responsible, not Gandhi family alone.
The frontrunners for ministerial berths in the new Adityanath government are Aparna Yadav, Pankaj Singh, Shalabh Mani Tripathi, Aseem Arun, Rajeshwar Singh and Dayashankar Singh.
Bhagwant Mann will meet Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla in the Parliament today, reported ANI. Mann, who was the party's chief ministerial candidate, will take the oath on March 16 at the freedom fighter Bhagat Singh's native village Khatkar Kalan.
Shashi Tharoor said that Indian voter has the capacity to surprise, and one day, they will also surprise the BJP.
The BJP emerged as the single largest party in Goa winning 20 seats in the 40-member state assembly and decimated Congress to 11 seats.
While a few ‘bahubalis’ managed wins in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, a majority of them were rejected by the voters. Not only this, a majority of the turncoats failed to win their seats.
The crucial Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting after the poll debacle in 5 states is underway in Delhi. Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge, Ambika Soni, Salman Khurshid, Ajay Maken, Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, P Chidambaram, Ashok Gehlot, other leaders present.
The appeal filed through advocates Abhikalp Pratap Singh and Siddharth Dharmadhikari said that the Bombay High Court has dismissed on March 9 the PIL filed by petitioner Mahajan that raised several substantial questions of laws having an impact on the general public at large.
The Congress, which fought under the leadership of Rawat, won just 19 seats against BJP's 47 out of a total of 70 assembly seats, with political observers attributing the loss to factionalism in the opposition party besides other factors.
Punjab's Chief Electoral Officer S Karuna Raju on Sunday said according to the schedule, the notification for the biennial election will be issued on Monday (March 14).
Stressing that three crore Punjabis have ushered in an "inquilab" (revolution), the Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said for the first time after so many years, Punjab has got an honest Chief Minister.
Yogi Adityanath will be the first Chief Minister in the last 37 years to return to power after completing a full term in the state.
BJP, which has been promised support by three Independent MLAs, will stake claim to form a government in the coastal state on Monday.
Uttarakhand outgoing Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami resigned to pave way for the formation of the new government in the state after the conclusion of the Assembly elections.
Preparations are underway in Amritsar to welcome Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal. Cutouts and posters have been put up on the roads and lanes of Amritsar.
Babul Supriyo recently joined the Trinamool Congress back in September 2021. He did so weeks after he was dropped as a minister in a Cabinet reshuffle by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
Assembly poll results of five states were announced on Thursday and the BJP won Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Manipur, while in Goa, it on its own has touched the halfway mark.
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