Tag: Panchayat
Despite BJP Winning Ahmedabad District Panchayat Polls, President From Congress
Capturing six Municipal Corporations, the BJP is on a winning streak, with a vastly improved performance over its 2015 debacle in the local body elections. But this victory chariot was dented by a technicality in the Ahmedabad district Panchayats results. Despite having a majority in the body, the BJP will have to stay content with a Congress president. ....
Gujarat Local Body Poll Results Show People Support Farm Reforms: Javadekar
Reacting to the results of the recent Gujarat local body polls, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said on Wednesday that the victory of the BJP in the elections endorsed farmers' support for the agricultural reforms brought by the Union government through the new farm laws. ....
UP Panchayat Poll Candidate Stabbed To Death
A Block Development Council (BDC) candidate Rakesh Babu, 60, was allegedly stabbed to death ahead of the Panchayat elections, scheduled to be held in Mainpuri on April 19. ....
Panchayat Polls Where Violence Took Place Should Be Held Again: Priyanka Gandhi
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is on a visit to Lakhimpur Kheri, on Saturday met the woman candidate of the Samajwadi Party who was allegedly molested during the block pramukh elections held recently in Uttar Pradesh. Priyanka Gandhi demanded that the panchayat polls where violence took place should be held again. She said she will write to the state election commission in this regard. ....
BJP Can Talk To Taliban But Not Farmers, Says Congress
The Congress has mounted further attack on the BJP-led government in Haryana for suppressing the voice of the farmers by blocking internet in Karnal. ....
Farmers Sit In Protest At Karnal DC Office Enters 2nd Day
Farmers protest that began from kisan mahapanchayat at Anaj Mandi on Tuesday morning in Haryana's Karnal has entered its second day in front of the mini-secretariat as more and more people from the surrounding areas continue to join the sit-in demonstration.....
Panchayat Polls Phase 1: 67.51L Voters To Decide Fate Of 726 Candidates In Odisha
Over 67.51 lakh voters will decide the fate of 726 Zilla Parishad (ZP) candidates in the first phase of panchayat polls in Odisha to be held on Wednesday. ....
PM Modi To Lay Foundation Of Over Rs 20,000 Crore Projects In Jammu & Kashmir Today
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate and lay the foundation of multiple development initiatives worth around Rs 20,000 crore in Jammu and Kashmir on Sunday.....
Two Trinamool Workers Killed In Post-poll Violence In Bengal
Although the polling of the three- tier panchayat system in West Bengal has ended, violence continued and two more deaths have been reported, officials said on Sunday. ....
Rakesh Tikait Supports Farmers' Protest At Mahapanchayat
The farmers' protests are continuing on the borders of Delhi against the agricultural laws with 'Mahapanchayats' taking place to boost the movement and spread it across the country while BKU leader Rakesh Tikait has emerged as the prominent voice of the movement.....
