Tamil Nadu BJP chief K Annamalai.
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Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday attacked the opposition Shiv Sena (UBT) and said some people's life is rooted in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and asserted the focus of his party should be to win Mumbai's civic body.
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Even as the Bharatiya Janata Party criticised her for her recent ‘Mrityu Kumbh” comment, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress supremo Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday expressed her doubt over the claim that the Maha Kumbh at Prayagraj in Uttar Pradesh was a special religious event happening after 144 years.
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Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu reaffirmed his commitment to fulfilling the promises the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) made in its manifesto despite challenges. (ANI)
Santosh Kumar Singh says, "The National President (JP Nadda) had come, and all the senior leaders of the party and esteemed ministers were present. The discussion focused on the future strategy and how we need to work together with the organization to secure 225 seats in 2025."
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BJP's Bihar president Dilip Jaiswal said on Wednesday that he will resign from CM Nitish Kumar's cabinet to conform with the party's 'one leader, one post' policy, according to PTI.
"We have never said that PM Narendra Modi's portrait should not be installed, but at the same time, Babasaheb Ambedkar, who wrote the constitution and gave us all the rights we enjoy today, and Shaheed Bhagat Singh cannot be ignored. Their portraits should not have been removed to install President and Prime Minister's portraits," AAP spokesperson Priyanka Kakka told ANI while reacting to the ruckus in the Delhi assembly yesterday
“... His party was formed on the basis of CAG report. It’s sad that Arvind Kejriwal never tabled CAG report when he was the CM because it could show his double face of corruption to the world,” Congress leader Abhishek Dutt told PTI on the CAG report.
Speaking to PTI, Pappu Yadav said, "Everything is zero here. Sportsmen are getting support from Pappu Yadav. There is no sympathy from the government, the central government is doing nothing. There is no focus on Olympics, they only have caste, religion in mind, are only hurt religious sentiments, have hatred, do marketing, and do politics all the time."
Speakign on the ruckus inside the Delhi assembly yesterday, BJP MP Praveen Khandelwal told ANI,"This was a well-planned conspiracy of AAP... They came to set new standards in politics, it was expected from them that at least they would accept their defeat in democracy... AAP has become a machine of making malicious lies, and today, they (the opposition) have become experts in creating false narratives. This is what they did on the first day of the new session... The people of Delhi understand who is actually insulting Baba Saheb."
BJP MLA Balwant Singh Mankotia, on the upcoming budget in the J&K assembly, told ANI, "There are a lot of expectations from the budget session... We are confident that the National Conference will fulfil the promises it made and live up to the expectations of the people."
Addresses a public gathering in Coimbatore, Amit Shah said, "Anti-national tendency is at all-time high in Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu government provided security during the last journey of 1998 bomb blast accused and mastermind. Drug mafia enjoy a free hand in selling drugs in the state. Illegal mining mafia is making politics corrupt here. All the leaders of DMK have got Master's degree in corruption."
...Sometimes it feels as if DMK has let all the corrupts in the society join DMK through a membership drive... MK Stalin and his son are raising several issues to deviate from the real issues. Today, they are going to have a meeting regarding delimitation. PM Modi had made it clear that even after delimitation, seats of none of the states of South will be decreased," Amit Shah said during his address in Tamil nadu.
Tomorrow, the Delhi Assembly will discuss the Report of the CAG (Comptroller and Auditor General of India) on 'Performance Audit Report on Regulation and Supply of Liquor in Delhi', ANI reported.
On the reported "Make Nitish Kumar NDA’s CM face" statement of Bihar CM Nitish Kumar's son Nishant Kumar, BJP national spokesperson Syed Shahnawaz Hussain told ANI, "Whatever has been said is something that we have been saying for a long time now - that we will contest the election and form government under the leadership of Nitish Kumar...Our senior leaders, state leadership and central leadership have said the same. In Bihar, we will contest under the leadership of Nitish Kumar, cross 200 and form the government once again...There is no dispute over this. Opposition tries to stoke controversy where there is none...Nitish Kumar is the most experienced and under his leadership, Bihar has made progress. PM too calls him "laadla mukhyamantri" and has a lot of affection for him. So, there is no doubt that we will contest under the leadership of Nitish Kumar and form government."
Karnataka Deputy CM DK Shivakumar told ANI, "I have seen in some of the media and social media, and my friends are calling and asking me whether I am coming close to the BJP. I am a born Congressman, my visit to Maha Kumbh is my belief and I respect all religions. Such speculations do not come even close to me; I don't take BJP's allegations seriously."
Bihar BJP president Dilip Jaiswal told ANI, "Today, at 4 pm, the governor has agreed to the oath-taking ceremony at Raj Bhavan. Seven ministers, all from the BJP's quota, are expected to take the oath. A meeting of our state unit will be held on March 4, where the new president (of Bihar) of our party will be elected..."
In Coimbatore, Amit Shah flays DMK govt over law and order, says security was provided to a bomb blast mastermind's funeral procession.
"Today, Union HM Amit Shah has visited Coimbatore...In his speech, he clearly brought out in the open the anti-people policies of the DMK government. The corruption and dynastic politics are taking Tamil Nadu backwards...Not only that, our CM tells one lie one day next week he moves to another lie. In the 3-language formula where the lie was about Hindi imposition, CM MK Stalin got caught. This week, he's moving to delimitation. He's saying the southern states will lose...PM Modi made it very clear a long time ago that we will not follow the Congress model of doing any anyaya (injustice) to southern India This is NDA's government. We will do nyaya (justice) to all states. Today, Union HM Amit Shah has clarified where the delimitation will happen; when the seats increase, it is going to be a pro-rata increase for all states...If and when the delimitation happens it will be a pro rata up based. So that no state is going to lose anything from where they are currently," Tamil Nadu BJP President K Annamalai said.
On actor Ranjana Natchiyaar quitting BJP and joining fellow actor Vijay's TVK amid the ongoing Tamil Nadu-Centre language row, he said, "In BJP Art Cell, we have 20 state secretaries, she is one among them... I am not attaching too much importance to anybody going out; people keep coming, people keep going out. That is the nature of politics; somebody goes for selfish reason; someone goes for personal reason... I always wish them the best."