Former chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan promised to construct a Sita temple but the matter did not go beyond the planning stage
Parrikar was a formidable predecessor while Sawant had little to commend him other than being the deceased chief minister's protege and allegiant
Shekhar had quit the Rajya Sabha on Monday
Over the last few days, Kumar has made all efforts to ensure the coalition stays in power
The rural polls are scheduled to be held in the north eastern state on July 27
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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said he is thankful to his opponents in the RSS and the BJP for providing him with opportunities to take his ideological battle against them to the public. Gandhi arrived here to appear before a metropolitan court in a defamation suit filed against him by the Ahmedabad District Cooperative Bank and its chairman, Ajay Patel. "I'm in Ahmedabad today, to appear in another case filed against me by my political opponents in the RSS/BJP. "I thank them for providing me these platforms & opportunities to take my ideological battle against them to the public. Satyameva Jayate," he said in a tweet after reaching Ahmedabad. The defamation suit alleges that Congress leaders, including Gandhi, had falsely claimed that the bank was involved in a "scam" to swap Rs 750 crore in scrapped notes with valid currency within five days of demonetisation in 2016.
This is the fifth in series of meetings with a cross-section of parliamentarians from the party.
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Opportunism is a "virtue" if it serves their self-interest
BJP's tag line, emanating from the tensions, would be to vote for a party that rules at the Centre
The Congress-JD(S) government has plunged into a crisis, with 13 MLAs of the alliance submitting their resignation to the Speaker, 12 of them did it on Saturday
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Polling, which began as scheduled at 9 a.m. in the State Assembly complex, concluded at 4 pm
Official results are yet to be declared by the Election Commission (EC) for the two seats that fell vacant after Amit Shah and Smriti Irani moved to the lower house
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Because of his all-India appointments, J P Nadda knows the BJP organisation intimately. Workers know him well and he knows the chemistry of being a worker
A vacation bench of justices Jyoti Singh and Manoj Kumar Ohri said "looking at the relief sought, there is no urgency". The bench instead listed the petition for hearing on July 8
Critics should enable a government to maintain balance, introspect and correct a mistake that might be made, he said