BJP national vice-president Baijayant Jay Panda on Sunday said the model that Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal boasts about in every state he visits has ultimately become 'A Model of Global Embarrassment'.
Agrawal won the election by a margin of 9,159 votes, leaving the BJP and Congress at second and third position. AAP candidate received a total 34,038 votes, BJP 24,879 and Congress nominee Arvind Chandel got 24,60 votes.
BJP's National Vice President Baijayant Panda on Saturday minced no words in lashing out at Delhi Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party president Arvind Kejriwal over allegations against him of engaging with pro-separatists elements.
New Delhi: Cracking the whip, the Election Commission on Saturday imposed a 48-hour campaigning ban on BJP candidate from Delhi’s Model Town constituency Kapil Mishra over his controversial tweets. The ban order, approved by the Chief Election Commissioner and two fellow Election Commissioners, came into force from 5 PM on Saturday, EC officials said. The […]
New Delhi: People in the national capital will not have to pay anything for consuming up to 200 units of power, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced on Thursday. “People consuming till 200 units of electricity won’t have to pay the electricity bills. Their bills will be waived from August 1,” he said. But if […]
New Delhi: The Delhi government will pay the examination fee charged by the CBSE from students in its schools from next year, officials said. The announcement was made Saturday by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at an event held to celebrate the good show by Class XII students in the board examinations. “Access to high-quality education […]
New Delhi: Declining the Central government’s offer to implement the Ayushman Bharat health scheme, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Friday wrote to Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, saying the city government is “offering ten times bigger and comprehensive health scheme”. In a letter, dated June 7, Kejriwal said replacing the existing scheme with Ayushman […]
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday condemned the killing of a Delhi Police Sub-Inspector and questioned who will be responsible for the safety of the people in the city when even police is not safe here. “Extremely shocking murder of Delhi Police Sub-Inspector in Vivek Vihar last night. Who takes responsibility for safety […]
New Delhi: The Delhi BJP on Saturday accused Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal of playing politics over the “serious” matter of security and making false allegations against it for “cheap popularity”, after he claimed that there was threat to this life from the saffron party. The party questioned why the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief did […]
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal here on Saturday alleged that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) wanted to finish him and the positive politics he had started. “Why BJP wants to kill me? What is my fault? I am only building schools, hospital for the people. For first time, there is a positive politics […]
New Delhi: A Delhi court on Tuesday granted exemption from personal appearance to Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and three others in a defamation complaint filed by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Rajiv Babbar. However, Additional Chief Metroplitan Magistrate Samar Vishal asked Kejriwal, Rajya Sabha member Sushil Kumar Gupta, MLA Manoj Kumar and Aam Aadmi Party […]
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that Congress President Rahul Gandhi will be responsible if Prime Minister Narendra Modi returns to power in the Lok Sabha polls, promising his party will do everything to stop the Shah-Modi duo in Delhi. Speaking to the media over a possible alliance between […]
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday raised questions over the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and sought a probe into the role of Pakistan in helping the party for winning the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. Sharing a news article, which says “Pakistan PM Imran Khan sees better chance of peace talks […]
New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal on Friday said his party needed to ally with the Congress in Haryana, not in Delhi, for the Lok Sabha elections in order to defeat the BJP. Asserting that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was “undoubtedly strong”, Kejriwal said that it can be defeated in Haryana […]
New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Tuesday praised the pilots of the Indian Air Force (IAF) following reports that they crossed the Line of Control (LoC) with their fighter jets and returned after dropping a payload in Pakistan. “I salute the pilots of the IAF,” Gandhi tweeted. Kejriwal […]
New Delhi: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday while demanding to declare Delhi a full-fledged state, attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi saying that BJP’s opposition to statehood for Delhi is a confession that Modi lied in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. The Aam Aadmi Party chief, who is going to sit on an indefinite […]
New Delhi: A day after meeting Congress President Rahul Gandhi, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the Congress had “almost” said ‘no’ for an alliance with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the national capital. Asked about the possibilities of an alliance for the Lok Sabha elections, Kejriwal said: “They (Congress) have almost […]
Jind: AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal Saturday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his government’s crop insurance scheme alleging it has failed to benefit the farming community and charged the NDA with dividing the society on caste lines. The Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojna (PMFBY) is aimed at enabling farmers avail insurance cover […]
New Delhi: Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said the state government’s Law Department was looking into whether sanction can be given to prosecute former Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Kanhaiya Kumar and nine others in a sedition case. A court recently rapped the Delhi Police for filing the chargesheet without receiving the sanction […]
New Delhi: The Delhi government will construction 83 metalled roads and streets in three unauthorised colonies in North-West Delhi “despite the BJP obstructing our initiative to develop and regulate unauthorised colonies in the national capital”, announced Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday. Kejriwal was addressing a huge gathering in Shalimar Bagh constituency where he said […]