New Delhi: Eighteen Opposition parties, including Nitish Kumar of JD(U), Congress, Trinamool and Left parties, met in New Delhi this morning and decided to field former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi as the Opposition candidate for elections to the post of Vice-President. Gandhi’s name was mooted by Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’ Brien and was…
New Delhi: Former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, the Presidential candidate of the Opposition, filed her nomination for the July 17 election in the presence of Congress chief Sonia Gandhi, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and other senior Opposition leaders this morning. Meira Kumar filed four sets of nomination papers before Lok Sabha Secretary General…
By T.J.S. George In political and strategic terms, the BJP leadership staged the equivalent of a coup d’etat when it nominated Ram Nath Kovind for President. The choice killed three birds with one stone. Bird No.1: The Opposition parties’ unity against the ruling dispensation. Not only did Bihar’s Nitish Kumar break rank to support the…
Bengaluru: With the Presidential polls to take place on July 17, the Central Election Commission has made arrangements at Vidhana Soudha for the casting of ballots by the electorate. The voting will take place at Room No. 106 in the 1st floor of Vidhana Soudha. Members of the State Legislature and MPs, who form the…
Bengaluru: The JD(S) on Sunday decided to support former Lok Sabha Speaker Meira Kumar, the opposition candidate in the Presidential polls. Former Prime Minister H.D. Deve Gowda and his son H.D. Kumaraswamy endorsed the candidature of Meira by signing on her nomination papers in the presence of Congress leaders in Bengaluru. Earlier, KPCC President Dr….
New Delhi: The monsoon session of the Parliament will commence on July 17, the day voting for the Presidential election will take place. According to sources, the Cabinet Committee on Parliamentary Affairs (CCPA) has recommended holding the Session from July 17 to August 11. The CCPA meeting, chaired by Home Minister Rajnath Singh, was held…
New Delhi: NDA Presidential nominee Ram Nath Kovind filed his nomination papers this morning for the upcoming election, a day after the former Bihar Governor was given ‘Z+’ and NSG security cover by the Centre. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP President Amit Shah, Union Ministers Venkaiah Naidu, Sushma Swaraj and Chief Ministers of 20 States…
New Delhi: For the upcoming Presidential election, there will be green-coloured ballot papers for Members of Parliament and pink for Legislators who vote on July 17. The value of a Legislator’s vote depends on the population of the State he or she represents. But the value of the vote of a lawmaker doesn’t vary —…
New Delhi: In what could be termed as a calculated but predictable strategy to counter PM Narendra Modi’s ‘masterstroke’ of nominating non-controversial Dalit leader Ram Nath Kovind for the post of President, the Congress-led Opposition yesterday pitted another Dalit leader Meira Kumar as its nominee for the highest Constitutional office in the country. The decision…
New Delhi: The ruling BJP yesterday announced Bihar Governor Ram Nath Kovind as its Presidential candidate. A politically significant choice, Kovind, a senior Dalit leader of the party, belongs to Uttar Pradesh and has been a two-time Rajya Sabha member. To ensure consensus over his candidature, Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke on the phone with…
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