Category: Politics

Prayagraj Police has conducted a raid on gangster-turned-politician and former Samajwadi Party leader Atiq Ahmed`s residence in the Mahanagar area of Lucknow, seizing two luxury cars from the Universal Apartments. According to the police sources, the raids were conducted on February 27 and the late night action followed a shootout in which the prime witness in the murder of BSP MLA Raju Pal, advocate Umesh Pal, was shot dead in Prayagraj on February 24. Atiq Ahmed, along with his son Asad Ahmed and wife and BSP leader Shaista Parveen were…

Jailed Aam Aadmi Party leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain have resigned as ministers, and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has accepted their resignations. If sentenced to two years or more in jail, Sisodia and Jain may lose their seats and can’t contest polls for six years. Sisodia was arrested by the CBI for alleged corruption in the formulation and implementation of the now-scrapped liquor policy for 2021–22 in the national capital. Satyendar Jain was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in May last year for his alleged involvement in a…

Three Indian states in the country’s northeast region held their assembly elections. All three states have 60 seats in their assembly where 31 seats are needed to secure the majority. According to recent data from the Election Commission, the turnout in Meghalaya was 81.57 and Nagaland at 85.90 percent. Tripura recorded nearly 87.6 percent. The exit polls published by several agencies for Meghalaya suggest no single party or alliance will  manage to secure a majority. Exit polls for Tripura assembly elections show BJP and its ally IPFT will manage to…

Union Minister of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Shri Bhupender Yadav  said the Indo-Danish Green Strategic Partnership is an appropriate forum to exchange ideas, best practices, knowledge, technology, capacity building for promoting sustainable lifestyles including LiFE, not only in Denmark and India, but for Europe and the whole world. Addressing The India – Denmark: Partners for Green and Sustainable Progress Conference  today in New Delhi  Shri Yadav said that since the launch of the “Green Strategic Partnership” during the Virtual Summit on 28 September 2020 between Prime Minister of Denmark,…

Thackeray said he no longer had trust in the apex poll body, adding it should be called “Election Chuna Lagao Aayog”. “Chuna lagana” is street lingo for defrauding somebody. Amid rift over the Election Commission‘s decision over Shiv Sena, (UBT) leader Uddhav Thackeray attacked the EC for declaring the party faction led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde as the “real” Shiv Sena and allotting it the ‘bow and arrow’ symbol. While addressing the gathering in Matoshree on the occasion of Marathi Day, Thackeray said he no longer had trust…

Umesh Pal murder case: Sadakat Khan is a practicing lawyer who was staying at Allahabad University hostel. Police said they are looking into how he was staying in the hostel. adakat Khan, who has been named as one of accused in the sensational Umesh Pal murder on February 24, is said to be close to Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav. On February 24, Umesh Pal, the prime witness in 2005 murder case of then BSP MLA Raju Pal was killed in broad daylight. One of Sadaqat’s pictures surfaced on social…

Delhi’s Deputy CM has been arrested by the CBI in connection with alleged corruption in the now-withdrawn liquor policy. The party has denied the charges, alleging a political crusade by the BJP-led central government. The agency traced one of the excise policy draft documents to a system that wasn’t part of the excise department network. Most of the files on the system had been deleted, but CBI managed to retrieve the records with the help of the forensic team. CBI said “Sisodia gave evasive replies and did not cooperate in…

Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal said that the CBI arrested his deputy Manish Sisodia in the excise policy case due to “high political pressure”. A day after Manish Sisodia was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation in the excise policy case, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday (February 27, 2023) claimed that most CBI officers were “against” his deputy’s arrest. Taking to his official Twitter account, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo said that all the CBI officers have “huge respect” for Sisodia and reiterated that there is no…

Umesh Pal, the prime witness in the 2005 BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case, was shot dead in Prayagraj on February 24. The main accused in the Raju Pal murder case is Atiq Ahmed. Bahujan Samaj Party supremo Mayawati on Monday said her party would expel mafia-turned politician Atiq Ahmed’s wife Shahista Praveen, named in an FIR in the killing of a prime witness in the BSP MLA Raju Pal murder case, if she was found guilty during probe. She also charged at the Samajwadi Party, terming Atiq Ahmed its…

Nagaland votes for its 60-member Assembly today. The BJP is contesting 20 seats. It had piggybacked CM Neiphiu Rio’s NDPP, but has been working on a plan to gain a solid foothold in Nagaland. For that, it is taking the route via Nagaland’s eastern part, but why?   After piggybacking Chief Minister Neiphiu Rio’s Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is looking to gain a solid foothold in Nagaland via its eastern part. Eastern Nagaland has some of the least developed parts of the state and…