Tag: Amit Shah

New Delhi: Bharatiya Janata Party President Amit Shah and Union Minister Smriti Irani on Friday morning took oath as Rajya Sabha members. Rajya Sabha Chairman M. Venkaiah Naidu administered the oath of office to Shah and Irani, who were elected to the Upper House from Gujarat earlier this month. This is Shah’s first Rajya Sabha stint […]

Mumbai: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah will meet ally Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray with the main agenda of discussions likely to centre around the upcoming presidential election, party officials said here on Thursday. The meeting will take place at the Thackeray residence, ‘Matoshri’ in Bandra east on Sunday during the three-day visit […]

Kolkata: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Wednesday asserted that action is being taken against cow vigilantes and the party maintains that no one should take the law into their own hands. “Our message is loud and clear. Everyone must adhere to law and order. No one should take law in their own […]

Bhubaneswar: BJP President Amit Shah on Friday questioned the state BJD government’s performance in the last 17 years and asked voters to uproot it for allegedly failing to fulfil even basic needs. “Seventeen years is not a small period. Most states in the country have seen development in the past few years. But Odisha has […]

Bhubaneswar: The defeat in the recently-concluded assembly elections in the hindi-heartland seems to have taken the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by surprise and the party seems to be in no mood to take any chances on its ‘look-east’ policy. Continuing its focus on eastern states like Odisha and West Benagal, the star campaigners of BJP, […]

Bhubaneswar: West Bengal BJP Chief, Dilip Ghosh’s announcement that a proposal of Narendra Modi contesting from Puri is already under discussion within the party has taken Odisha politics by storm. While speculations are rife now about the political ramifications it will have, many are wondering the very intention behind such a move. After coming to […]

Bhubaneswar: The stage is set for a farmers’ convention to be addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) president Amit Shah at Bargarh in Odisha on Sunday. “This would be the greatest of all rallies of the BJP in the state. For the first time, Modi and Amit Shah would address […]

Raipur: The Raman Singh government in Chhattisgarh had made the state “almost free” of Naxalism and developed it as a hub of power and cement production, BJP president Amit Shah said Saturday. Targeting the opposition Congress, he said a party that felt Naxalism was a medium for revolution could not do any good for Chhattisgarh. […]

New Delhi: The Narendra Modi-led government is working for “making India” whereas the Congress is working for breaking India, BJP president Amit Shah said Saturday. Addressing the party’s national executive meet, Shah said the party would win in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls with a mandate bigger than 2014. The BJP had won 282 seats […]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah today handed over urns containing ashes of Atal Bihari Vajpayee to the party’s state unit chiefs for leading ‘Asthi Kalash Yatra’ in their states as its top brass embarked on an exercise to firm up the legacy of the saffron stalwart. Home Minister Rajnath […]

New Delhi: The Congress today termed its outing in the Gujarat assembly polls under the stewardship of party president Rahul Gandhi as its “moral victory”. “Congress’ Party’s campaign under the leadership of #CongressPresidentRahulGandhi ji has led to a moral victory for our party in #Gujarat…,” AICC general secretary in- charge for Gujarat Ashok Gehlot tweeted. […]

New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah today termed his party’s win in the Himachal Pradesh civic polls as “historic” and said the result reflects the mood of the state and trust of its people in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s politics of development. He also congratulated BJP’s state unit chief Satpal Singh Satti and all the […]

New Delhi: The direct benefit transfer programme has resulted in Rs 50,000 crore savings for the government in the last three years as funds were directly transferred to 32 crore needy people, BJP President Amit Shah has said. The Aadhaar-linked DBT scheme, he said, has helped in plugging leakages, removing middlemen and eliminating ghost beneficiaries. […]

Bhubaneswar: The BJP today described the Narendra Modi government s welfare policies as “revolutionary” and asked the people to take a “pledge” to return him to power in 2019 so that its development policies continue. A resolution adopted by its national executive cited measures like the GST, the health policy, the Mudra loans and the […]

Bhubaneswar: Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said virtual museums would be set up at 50 places in the country to highlight the “significant” role of the tribals in the freedom struggle. Felicitating family members of 16 freedom fighters, who fought in the 1817 Paika rebellion in Odisha against the British rule, Modi said, “Unfortunately, the […]