Prime Minister Narendra Modi outlined his government's roadmap for the next five years, emphasizing a determined fight against poverty and upliftment of the downtrodden. He highlighted efforts to include marginalized communities in welfare schemes and initiatives like the Vishwakarma Samaj project and PM SVAnidhi scheme.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, addressing the Rajya Sabha, reaffirmed his government's commitment to advancing India's growth in its third term. He criticized the Congress-led Opposition and praised citizens for endorsing the BJP-led NDA. Modi emphasized the NDA's unprecedented third-term victory and pledged to achieve Viksit Bharat and Atmanirbhar Bharat.
Nadda replaces Union minister Piyush Goyal, who recently won the Lok Sabha election and took oath on Monday as a member of the Lower House of Parliament.
Chairman of Rajya Sabha and Vice President, Jagdeep Dhankhar administered the oath to BJP’s Ashwini Vaishnaw and BJD’s Debashish Samantaray and Subhasish Khuntia at Sansad Bhawan
Prime Minister Narendra Modi himself took to X, to share the information about her nomination. He hailed her nomination to the Upper House and said that her presence in the House will be a powerful testament to nation’s ‘Nari Shakti’.
Polling was held for 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh, four in Karnataka and one seat in Himachal Pradesh. On February 20, 41 candidates including BJP chief J P Nadda, former Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Union ministers Ashwini Vaishnaw and L Murugan were elected unopposed to the Upper House.
As no other candidates from other parties contested for the three seats, the two nominees of the Biju Janata Dal(BJD), Debasish Samantaray and Subashish Khuntia, and the lone candidate of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Ashwini Vaishnaw were elected uncontested on Tuesday.
Returning Officer for the Rajya Sabha elections, Abanikanta Pattnaik said, “Only three candidates filed their nominations for the three vacant Rajya Sabha seats. If there had been contest in all three seats, elections would have been conducted.”
Vaishnaw had never been in parliament when he was named as the BJP candidate in 2019 despite the party lacking the numbers in the state assembly.
Taking to his official X (formerly Twitter) handle, the newly-appointed in-charge of the Odisha Congress, Ajoy Kumar wrote, “BJP-BJD bonhomie! The ‘Tactical Larger plan’ of the two erstwhile ‘married alliance’ is on the move!.”
Ending all speculations, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday named Union Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw as its candidate for the upcoming Rajya Sabha election in Odisha.
As per reports, the Union Railway Minister is coming to Odisha on a two-day visit starting from tomorrow. Though some programmes have been scheduled on February 14, he has no specific programmes on February 15, the last date for nomination filing for Rajya Sabha. This has given credence to the speculation, even though both parties have not yet given any indications.
Various circles are busy doing guesswork about the probability of a leader being chosen either from southern or western Odisha. Observers believe that in his usual style of functioning, the BJD supremo and Chief Minister, Naveen Patnaik may spring a surprise.
CM Naveen Patnaik and other BJD leaders were present during the filing of the nomination papers in the state Assembly today.
Ending days of speculation, the Biju Janata Dal(BJD) announced the names of Debashish Samantaray and Subhasish Khuntia as nominees to the Rajya Sabha. However, the ruling party is yet to announce its third nominee.
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