Tag: Yashwant Sinha

Overall, the 16th Presidential election was conducted in a free, fair and orderly manner in the Parliament House and across all the state capitals.

India is all set to get its fifteenth President on Thursday with the counting of votes cast by MPs and MLAs in polling on July 18.

If the support of parties are taken into consideration, NDA’s Presidential candidate Draupadi Murmu is way ahead of Yashwant Sinha.

Murmu is the NDA candidate, who is contesting against Yashwant Sinha, supported by the Opposition parties.

A total of 776 Members of Parliament and 4,033 MLAs will vote in the Presidential elections.

Opposition's Presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Sunday said that the election is not about the identities of the two candidates but about the ideologies and ideals.

Meanwhile,  The ruling TRS in Telangana on Monday said it would support the candidature of joint opposition nominee Yashwant Sinha in the Presidential election.

He stated that if elected, he will conscientiously uphold, without fear or favour.

Yashwant Sinha's name came up after Pawar, Gopalkrishna Gandhi and Farooq Abdullah opted out of the race.

Kolkata: Charging the Narendra Modi government with destroying and compromising all important institutions of democracy, including the Union Cabinet, Parliament, Supreme Court and the media, former Union Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha on Sunday said the only way out for the country is to elect a new government in the coming Lok Sabha polls. Sinha, a […]

New Delhi: A day after four senior-most judges of the Supreme Court went public with their differences with Chief Justice Dipak Misra, senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha said it is “our bounden duty to take note of what the judges have said and raise our voice for corrective action”. Sinha, who finds himself at variance with […]

New Delhi: Targeting former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha, BJP MP and President of the party’s Kisan Morcha Virendra Singh Mast on Thursday sought to know Sinha’s own achievements as the country’s Finance Minister. “The concerns Yashwant Sinha has raised (on NDA government’s economic policies) are baseless. He should remember his own terms as the country’s Finance […]

New Delhi: The government on Wednesday rejected senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha’s critique on the state of economy, saying the world acknowledges that India is the fastest growing economy. “The world acknowledges India is the fastest growing economy. No one should forget it. Our image at the international level is very strong,” Home Minister Rajnath Singh […]

Ranchi: Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha was arrested on Tuesday along with party legislator Manish Jaiswal and 150-odd supporters in Hazaribagh district of Jharkhand after they allegedly tried to take out a religious procession. “Some security men were injured when Sinha’s supporters pelted them with stones in Mahudi area at Barkagao. Tear gas shells were […]

New Delhi: Former Union ministers Yashwant Sinha and Arun Shourie, and advocate Prashant Bhushan Wednesday moved the Supreme Court, seeking review of its December 14 verdict dismissing all PILs alleging irregularities in the procurement of 36 Rafale jets from France. In their review plea, they alleged that the judgment “relied upon patently incorrect claims made […]