political history

Mumbai, March 15 Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday supported the demand to bestow the Bharat Ratna on BSP founder Kanshi Ram, as he praised the contributions made by Kanshi Ram in uniting and empowering the Bahujan community.Addressing a press conference on the sidelines...

Agartala, March 15 Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said on Sunday that his government has been prioritizing the prosperity and development of the tribal community.Addressing a BJP event at Rabindra Bhavan here, he said that five out of the 12 ministers in the state are from the tribal...

Mumbai, March 15 Samajwadi Party (SP) president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday lauded the contributions made by BSP founder Kanshi Ram in uniting and empowering the Bahujan community on the occasion of his birth anniversary.Addressing a press conference, the former Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh...

Kolkata, March 14 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and Leader of Opposition Suvendu Adhikari on Saturday paid tributes to the 14 protesters who were killed in firing during the anti-land acquisition movement at Nandigram in Purba Medinipur district on this day in 2007.In her message...

Lucknow, March 13 Uttar Pradesh Minister Asim Arun said on Friday that Rahul Gandhi's attempt to claim Kanshi Ram's legacy was "artificial," claiming that the Congress leader had "no knowledge of history or geography".Arun was reacting to Gandhi's remarks at an event here in Lucknow that if...

Lucknow, March 13 Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday that if Jawaharlal Nehru had been alive, Kanshi Ram would have been made Chief Minister by the Congress.Nehru, India's first Prime Minister, died in 1964, while Kanshi Ram emerged on the political scene with the founding of BAMCEF...

Vice President C. P. Radhakrishnan and Prime Minister Narendra Modi paid tribute today to all the brave freedom fighters who participated in the historic Dandi March. In a social media post, Mr. Radhakrishnan stated that the Dandi Satyagraha, launched on this day in 1930 under the leadership of...

Bhubaneswar, March 10 Odisha Deputy Chief Minister Kanak Vardhan Singh Deo and leader of the opposition in the assembly, Naveen Patnaik, mourned the death of German-born historian and Padma Shri awardee, Hermann Kulke, who played a key role in highlighting the Shree Jagannatha culture and the...

Bengaluru, March 10 Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who recently presented his record 17th budget as the state's finance minister, recalled on Tuesday that he first took on the responsibility in 1994 at the insistence of then CM H D Deve Gowda.Speaking in the Legislative Assembly, he...

New Delhi, March 10 – Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday extended birthday greetings to Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, wishing him a long life and good health.Speaking on the social media platform X, the Prime Minister conveyed his wishes to the leader of the National...

New Delhi, March 6 The forced sterilization campaign in 1975-77 was a result of northern Indian chief ministers perceiving Sanjay Gandhi as a "rising force," who spearheaded the mass vasectomy and tubectomy campaign in an extra-constitutional capacity, Veteran politician Karan Singh said on...

Bhubaneswar, March 5 BJD president and Leader of the Opposition in the Odisha Assembly, Naveen Patnaik, on Thursday alleged that the Panchayati Raj Institutions (PRIs) in the state were in grave danger and needed to be strengthened.Patnaik made this statement while paying tribute to his father...

Ranchi, March 5 Leader of the Opposition in the Jharkhand Assembly, Babulal Marandi, on Thursday said Nitish Kumar's tenure as the Chief Minister of Bihar will be remembered as a golden chapter in the state's history.Kumar announced his decision to enter the Rajya Sabha earlier in the day...

Kolkata, March 1 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paid tribute to her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on his birth anniversary on Sunday.Bhattacharjee, a prominent figure in the Communist Party of India (Marxist), served as the chief minister of the state for two consecutive...

Chandigarh, February 24 The ruling Aam Aadmi Party in Punjab stated on Tuesday that the people of the state were not aware of gangsters or drugs before 2007, and that these problems flourished under the Shiromani Akali Dal government.The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) statement came in response to...

Bengaluru, February 23 Karnataka Home Minister G Parameshwara accused the opposition on Monday of "unnecessarily" fueling the debate over a Dalit Chief Minister to divert attention from governance.He asserted that only the Congress has the commitment to elevate a Dalit leader to the top...

Guwahati, February 17 Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma claimed on Tuesday that then Congress President Sonia Gandhi had asked him to decide on the date for his swearing-in as chief minister when 58 party MLAs had supported him in 2014.However, the situation changed after Rahul Gandhi...

Dhaka, February 14 – Despite emerging as the second-largest political force in the recently concluded 13th Parliamentary election in Bangladesh, Jamaat-e-Islami failed to translate its numerical strength into meaningful political success. This paradox extends beyond the contemporary electoral...

New Delhi, February 13 Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Friday praised India's first Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, as an "extraordinary institution builder," while recalling how, in 1959, the then Prime Minister had written a letter of apology to Supreme Court Judge Vivian Bose."There is...