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Rs 62,000 crore: Congress victory might cost Karnataka this much every year
Though many different factors are behind the Congress party's big victory over its rival the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka, a host of freebies it offered to the people must have tilted the scales in its favour. The Congress…
Neiphiu Rio may take oath as Nagaland CM on March 7
The new Nagaland government led by NDPP and BJP is likely to be sworn in on March 7.Newly elected NDPP MLAs met in Kohima and elected Neiphiu Rio as the leader of the legislature party. Rio, who is the longest serving chief minister of the…
Contest in Tripura: Ruling BJP faces Tipra Motha and the CPM-Congress alliance
Deepak Majumdar is a confused man. A grocer in the busy Mohanbati bazaar of Agartala, he used to be a hardcore CPI(M) supporter. In the last assembly elections in Tripura, however, he switched to BJP, hoping for the promised change and…
Assembly Polls: BJP to contest all 60 Meghalaya seats, 20 seats in Nagaland
The BJP will contest on all 60 seats of the Meghalaya Assembly and fight the Nagaland elections in an alliance with the state's ruling Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party, contesting on 20 of 60 seats. BJP secretary and its northeast…
Ahead of assembly polls, BJP to hold high-level meet in Jaipur in May. See here
Ahead of assembly polls in several states, Bharatiya Janata Party is set to convene a meeting of its office bearers from all across the country in Rajasthan's Jaipur on May 20 and May 21 to brainstorm over strengthening the…
Polls over, it’s back to managing the economy
In normal times, governments consider it a relief when election campaigning ends, as they can go back to matters of governance. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has invested more political capital on this issue than anyone else, best seen…