Politics

JP Nadda, who was the health and family welfare minister in the previous government, is expected to take on the mantle of the BJP president with Amit Shah joining the Union Cabinet.

Amit Shah’s oath after Narendra Modi and Rajnath Singh delineates the pecking order in the Union cabinet. Shah was administered oath ahead of former BJP president Nitin Gadkari.

Apart from Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, the other top leaders who were sworn-in as Union ministers included D V Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman and Ram Vilas Paswan.

Her latest achievement was to turn the tide in the BJP’s favour in Sarguja during the Lok Sabha election. It was the same region where the BJP had lost 14 seats in the Assembly election in December, 2018.

The incident brought back memories of a similar one earlier this month near Chandrakona in West Midnapore district.

The TPCC President alleged BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi won the elections by taking up nationalism as their agenda and not talking about issues of employment, agriculture and economy.

OP Ravindranath Kumar, the son of deputy chief minister O Panneerselvam, is the NDA’s lone MP from Tamil Nadu.

This ‘Pied piper’ of Kanchrapara in North 24 Parganas, who managed to lure more than 60 TMC members tothe BJP within two days, did what he had promised when he was sidelined by the TMC.

Reddy has reportedly decided to include 15 ministers in his first Cabinet, with a possibility of holding a special session of Assembly on June 11 and June 12.

The Khader Commission report recommends upgrading the professional qualification of teachers and bringing the school education sector under a single directorate in an effort to revamp it.

Claiming a 'difference between the Nehru-Gandhi family and others', Rao urged Gandhi to take a leaf from the Congress's defeat in 1977 and lead the party during its difficult times.

Modi's photography skills were first seen by his party workers in 1988, a year after he moved from the RSS to the BJP and scripted party's first victory in Ahmedabad municipal elections.

The Kamal Nath-led government has already transferred half a dozen principal secretaries and 15 IAS officers and reinstated several officers at their previous postings who were removed by the EC over complaints.

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat said Lord Ram lived in everyone, and 'Ram ka kaam' (doing Ram's work) is everyone's responsibility.

Modi, who will take oath as the prime minister for the second time on Thursday, described the former president as a 'statesman'.

Addressing a press conference, Mukul Roy and BJP's Bengal in-charge Kailash Vijayvargiya said that Bijpur TMC MLA Subhrangshu Roy and a legislator each from the Congress and CPM joined the saffron party.