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Jan Ashirwad Yatra: All you need to know about BJP's outreach programme

The Jan Ashirwad Yatra would cover 210 of the 230 assembly segments, across over 10,500 km, and marked by 212 big public meetings and 678 smaller ones

Madhya Pradesh Assembly Election 2023: Date, schedule, seats, opinion polls

Polling to elect the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Legislative Assembly is scheduled for later this year, along with Chhattisgarh, Rajasthan, Telangana and Mizoram

EX-BRS MLA Aravind Reddy expresses disappointment over ticket distribution

Aravind Reddy requested Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao (KCR) to give the ticket for Mancherial to a backward-class candidate, citing that the population of BCs was high in the constituency

Amit Shah to flag off Jan Ashirwad Yatra in Madhya Pradesh on September 3

Polls in Madhya Pradesh and four other states, which account for roughly 15% of India's population, are expected to set the tone for the 2024 national elections

Shah to flag off BJP's 'Jan Ashirwad Yatra' on Sep 3 from MP's Chitrakoot

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will flag off the Bharatiya Janata Party's 'Jan Ashirwad Yatra' on September 3 from Chitrakoot in Satna in Madhya Pradesh, where polls will be held at the end of the year. Making the announcement in a press conference, Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar and state unit chief VD Sharma also said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been invited to address a workers' meeting to mark the culmination of the yatra in Bhopal on September 25, the birth anniversary of stalwart Deendayal Upadhyaya. Shivraj Singh Chouhan, the longest serving chief minister of the state, will take part for a few hours on each day of the yatra, said Tomar, who is also the party's MP election management committee convenor. The Jan Ashirwad Yatra will be taken out from different parts of the state, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh has been invited to flag off four legs of the initiative, Sharma informed. "Five committees have been formed for five yatras. Its state convenor is MP minis

Telangana elections: Shah instructs party workers to counter BRS, Congress

"Congress and BRS are collaborating with an agenda and accusing BJP of having an understanding with BRS. Let me clarify, we have no intention to join hands with BRS," said Shah

Nuh Shobha Yatra: Internet suspended, Sec 144 imposed, all you need to know

Police officials in Nuh said 1,900 Haryana Police personnel and 24 companies of paramilitary forces have been deployed

Amit Shah to chair Western Zonal Council meeting in Gandhinagar today

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will on Monday chair a meeting of the Western Zonal Council in Gandhinagar where various issues like speedy investigation in cases of sexual offence and rape and matters related to infrastructure and environment are likely to come up for discussion. The Western Zonal Council comprises Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli, an official release said. The meeting will be attended by chief ministers, ministers, chief secretaries, principal secretaries and senior officers of member states and central government, it said. The meeting is likely to discuss issues like speedy investigation in cases of sexual offence and rape against women and children, implementation of the scheme of Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs) for expeditious disposal of rape and POCSO Act cases, as well as issues of common interest in areas of road connectivity, power, industries and other matters. Facilitation of banks and India

KCR broke dreams of T'gana Mukti Sangram by sitting with Owaisi: Amit Shah

Referring to the AIMIM as the 'Razakars', the Union Home Minister said, "I want to tell KCR, that youths of Telangana had laid down their lives for state's liberation, not to sit down with Razakar'

Amit Shah to chair Western Zonal Council meeting in Gujarat on Monday

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a meeting of the Western Zonal Council on Monday in Gandhinagar where a host of issues like speedy investigation in cases of sexual offence and rape and matters related to infrastructure and environment will come up for discussion, officials said. The Western Zonal Council comprises Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The meeting will be attended by chief ministers, ministers, chief secretaries, principal secretaries and senior officers of member states and central government, officials said. The meeting is likely to discuss issues like speedy investigation in cases of sexual offence and rape against women and children, implementation of the scheme of Fast Track Special Courts (FTSCs) for expeditious disposal of rape and POCSO Act cases. Facilitation of banks and India Post Payment Bank branches within 5 km in each village, addressing malnutrition among children through Poshan ...

PM Modi gave new speed, energy to country's space mission: Amit Shah

Home Minister Amit Shah also took a dig at those who raised some slogans during the programme

Rajasthan CM Gehlot should resign over 'red diary' issue: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday demanded the resignation of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot over a "red diary" which, he alleged, contained details of corruption and black deeds of the state government. Addressing a "Sahakar Kisan Sammelan" in Gangapur City in the poll-bound state, Shah said the BJP-led central government raised the agriculture budget by six times and formed a separate ministry for cooperatives, whereas the Congress had done nothing for farmers. Pointing to a few people who raised slogans during the event, the home minister said, "I want to tell Gehlot saab that you will achieve nothing by sending some people to shout slogans. If there is any shame left in him, he should resign over the 'red diary' issue and enter the election fray." "Nowadays Gehlot saab is very afraid of the colour red. The colour of the diary is red, but black deeds are hidden in it. The red diary has details of multi-crore corruption," he said. Sacked Rajasthan minister Rajendra

Shah asks police leadership to ensure timely justice, rights of citizens

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday urged the police leadership to provide timely justice to citizens and ensure a system that would guarantee the constitutional rights of the people. Addressing the concluding session of the National Security Strategies Conference here, Shah also asked police to work for a criminal justice system based on new technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the use of forensic science among others. The home minister urged the top police leadership to transform their approach to dealing with the country's internal security problems, according to an official statement. He laid emphasis on the use of modern technology in policing and suggested the implementation from lower police ranks of constabulary to the higher formations. Quoting the recently introduced bills in Parliament to replace the IPC, CrPC and Indian Evidence Act, Shah laid down a vision for revamping the entire criminal justice system. He told the police officers that when the new

Shah to chair western zonal council meeting on Aug 28 in Gandhinagar

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will chair a meeting of the Western Zonal Council on August 28 in Gandhinagar where a host of issues of mutual interests will be discussed, sources said. The Western Zonal Council comprises Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa and the Union Territories of Daman and Diu and Dadra and Nagar Haveli. The meeting will be attended by chief ministers, ministers, chief secretaries, principal secretaries and senior officers of the member states and the central government, sources said. The meeting will also discuss issues of common interests in areas of road connectivity, power, industries and other matters, they said. According to the established procedure and practice, the zonal council meeting is preceded by a standing committee of the council where the agenda items to be placed before the council are scrutinised and prioritised. The Narendra Modi government has been regularly holding meetings of the zonal councils as part of its overall strategy to strengthen and pro

Narco-finance, terror discussed at high-level meet chaired by Amit Shah

Internal security, terrorism, narco-finance and cyber security were some of the key subjects discussed at a high-level security conference chaired by Union Home Minister Amit Shah here on Thursday. The two-day conference, attended by top security officers, also discussed emerging national security challenges. On the first day of the conference, deliberations were held on various subjects of national security, including trends in terror, narco-financing in India, use of forensic science in investigation, social challenges, emergency preparedness for nuclear and radiological exigencies and cyber security framework, officials said. Inaugurating the conference, Shah said the central government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is committed to ensuring a safe and secure nation by strengthening all aspects of national security mechanism. The home minister reiterated the government's commitment to tackle the menace of drug trafficking, besides other issues related to

Manipur CM, cabinet minister leave for Delhi; likely to meet Amit Shah

Manipur Chief Minister N Biren Singh along with a few of his cabinet colleagues went to New Delhi on Thursday, officials said. During the visit to the national capital, Singh is expected to meet Union Home Minister Amit Shah to discuss the situation in his state, where ethnic clashes broke out in May, they said. Singh and his colleagues went to Delhi in a chartered flight, and are likely to return to the state at night, they added. Among those accompanying the CM are state ministers Govindas Konthoujam and Sapam Ranjan, officials said.

Telangana elections: Shah to address rally, review preparations in state

Telangana Assembly elections 2023: BJP leaders have claimed that there is 'anti-incumbency' against the K Chandrashekhar Rao-led government in the state

Elections 2023: What is BJP's women outreach plan in poll-bound states?

Ahead of the upcoming Madhya Pradesh Assembly elections, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has initiated a slew of outreach efforts, particularly among women voters

Madhya Pradesh election 2023: Shivraj Singh Chouhan to expand cabinet today

The new ministers in the MP cabinet will only have a month and a half before the dates of the election are announced and the model code of conduct kicks in

BRS-AIMIM partnership hurting Muslims in Telangana: BJP MP D Arvind

The BJP MP underlined that since CM K Chandrashekhar Rao didn't implement PM Ayushman and PM Awas Yojana, Muslim families in Telangana faced a loss of Rs 7 lakh each