Former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshiyari is likely to succeed B C Khanduri as the new CM of the state, following Bhartiya Janata Party's defeat in the Lok Sabha polls.
Former chief minister of Uttrakhand Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, in an exclusive conversation with rediff.com on Monday, denied that he was lobbying with the Central leadership of the Bharatiya Janata Party to ease out Bhuvan Chand Khandoori.
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Talking about the SYL issue he said that it would be better for the chief minister of various states to sit down and sort out the matter.
The five-member delegation headed by former Uttrakhand Chief Minister Bhagat Singh Koshiyari, party spokesperson Rajeev Pratap Rudy and former J and K state chief Nirmal Singh visited this area and bordering areas of Nyoma and Demchok, 300 kilometres from southeast of this Himalayan town. "We have come here to ascertain reports about the Chinese incursion and what we have found is shocking...," Rudy told PTI.
'With a heavy heart leaving Mumbai, the way I was terrorised all these days constant attacks and abuses hurled at me attempts to break my house after my work place, alert security with lethal weapons around me, must say my analogy about POK was bang on (sic),' Ranaut wrote on Twitter.
'We are the real Shiv Sena and we will remain in the Sena.'
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar and Samajwadi Party leader Ram Gopal Yadav are and 10 political leaders who were on Thursday elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
"Maharashtra is again under a lockdown. Nearly 100 people have died due to floods," he said.
Pawar met Modi at the Prime Minister's Office in Parliament along with NCP Lok Sabha member P P Mohammad Faizal, who raised issues related to his constituency Lakshadweep.
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'If Modi-Shah had not changed the leadership, one section would have parted ways with the BJP for sure.'
Prince Charles and his wife Camilla Parker Bowles, who are visiting Uttarakhand, relished the Garhwali dishes served to them at a banquet organised by Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on Thursday night.
Heart rending scenes were witnessed at the funeral of Major Bisht, who died while defusing a mine along the LoC in Naushera sector of Rajouri district in Jammu and Kashmir.
In the given scenario, Doiwala MLA Trivendra Singh Rawat and Pithoragarh MLA Prakash Pant emerge as the two most favourites.
Inability to take everyone along during his nearly four-year term led to Trivendra Singh Rawat's undoing. He tried to take control of all major departments by holding on to more than 40 of them, but still could not deliver.
The move came at a time when deliberations between the Congress, the NCP and the Shiv Sena seemingly reached the final stage on Friday.
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Bharatiya Janata Party's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi will contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday and discussed issues related to the Maratha reservation, pending GST compensation and the proposed Metro car shed in Kanjur.
The inexperienced Uddhav is forced to match up against 24x7 political pros Amit Shah and Narendra Modi who have the added advantage of wielding power at the Centre, asserts Virendra Kapoor.
Another MLA Rekha Arya, who was also supposed to join the BJP on Wednesday, is visiting the Simhasth Kumbh in Ujjain, but has sent her acceptance to the party.
Close aides say Rawat does not give in easily and uses all political tools to marginalise his adversaries.
Uttarakhand Governor Krishna Kant Paul on Saturday asked Chief Minister Harish Rawat to prove his majority on the floor of the state assembly by March 28 as the political crisis escalated with the Bharatiya Janata Party, claiming the support of rebel Congress MLAs, stepped up efforts to form its government.
Nine Congress MLAs, most of them Bahuguna loyalists, rebelled against Harish Rawat and supported BJP's claim to form a government.
'He has been made CM of Uttarakhand because everybody thinks he is not a challenge to anyone.'
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This time however, the poll panel did not share the overall polling percentage at its briefing.
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