Tag: Aap

New Delhi: Delhi Police on Saturday detained AAP MLA Sanjeev Jha for trying to “break public peace” after he tried to hold a counter hunger strike outside the house of sacked minister Kapil Mishra, who is sitting on indefinite fast to protest corruption in the ruling AAP. “We have detained Sanjeev Jha, as he attempted […]

New Delhi: Merely forming a larger coalition of opposition parties cannot help check Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said on Saturday. The Aam Aadmi Party leader said in an interview that issues affecting people were more important than the simple coming together of political forces during elections. “The country’s problems need to […]

New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said those living in rented houses will also get free water and subsidised electricity if the AAP comes to power in the civic corporations. “Those staying in rented houses don’t get benefit of low water and electricity tariff. After municipal elections, we will make sure even […]

  New Delhi: The Anti-Corruption Branch on Thursday arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s nephew, Vinay Bansal, in an alleged scam totaling Rs 6 crore in the Public Works Department (PWD). Bansal was arrested from his residence in Pitampura in west Delhi in the morning, after he failed to give satisfactory replies on firm Mahadeo […]

New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind today accepted the Election Commission’s recommendation to disqualify 20 MLAs of Delhi’s ruling Aam Aadmi Party for holding offices of profit. A notification issued by the law ministry quoted the president as saying that in the light of the opinion expressed by the Election Commission (EC), the 20 members […]

Pathankot: AAP leader Joginder Chinna, who had contested the Punjab assembly polls from Dinanagar seat, today joined the BJP, and accused the AAP’s Punjab unit chief Bhagwant Mann of converting the party into a “private company”. Jolting the AAP days ahead of the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha bye-election, Chinna, along with his supporters, took the BJP’s […]

New Delhi: In a rare meeting of minds, the ruling Aam Admi Party and the opposition BJP today opposed the Delhi Metro’s fare hike which will take effect from October 10. Hours after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal directed his Transport Minister Kailash Gahlot to look into the matter, the president of city BJP unit, […]

New Delhi: The NITI Aayog has chosen four infrastructure projects of the Delhi government and will help in their execution under its development support policy. Two of these projects are related to transit-oriented development – smart city at North Delhi’s Gulabi Bagh and ISBT Sarai Kale Khan in southeast Delhi. The other two are the […]

New Delhi: Hundreds of AAP workers today demonstrated outside the Election Commission headquarters here demanding that voter-verifiable paper audit trail (VVPAT)- equipped EVMs be used in future elections. The protesters, including AAP MLAs and newly appointed Delhi convener Gopal Rai, alleged that the manipulation of electronic voting machines was killing democracy. “EVM manipulation is a […]

New Delhi/Lucknow: A day after his arrest, AAP leader Jitender Singh Tomar was today taken to Faizabad in Uttar Pradesh by Delhi Police for questioning but he maintained that the allegations were false and accused the Centre of a “conspiracy”. Tomar, who quit as Delhi Law minister after his arrest yesterday, claims to have done […]

G R Gopinath, who pioneered low-cost air travel in India, quit the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday citing growing differences within the party leadership and criticised Arvind Kejriwal for "shoot and scoot" politics

Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Friday denied allegations of gross discrepancy in actual consumption of oxygen in the national capital, terming the reports as fake and without approval from the committee.

In yet another attack, Arvind Kejriwal was on Tuesday slapped by a man during a roadshow in Sultanpuri in North-west Delhi, leaving his left-eye with a minor injury but the AAP leader refused to take security while blaming BJP for it

A non-cognisable offence was on Thursday registered against AAP candidate from Mumbai North West constituency, Mayank Gandhi, after his opponent and Bollywood starlet Rakhi Sawant, who recently launched Rashtriya Aam Party, alleged that he used "filthy" language against her

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate Narendra Mohanty from Kandhamal Lok Sabha seat has the highest number of 28 criminal cases pending against him among the 98 candidates in the fray for 10 Lok Sabha seats going to polls on April 10 in Odisha