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Priyanka replaced as Cong in-charge of UP, Sachin Pilot gets Chhattisgarh

23Dec

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Priyanka replaced as Cong in-charge of UP, Sachin Pilot gets Chhattisgarh

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (Photo: PTI) In a major organisational rejig ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, the Congress on Saturday appointed Avinash Pande the general secretary in-charge of Uttar Pradesh, replacing Priyanka Gandhi Vadra while Sachin Pilot was made the general secretary in-charge of Chhattisgarh. Priyanka Gandhi will now be a general secretary "without any assigned portfolio", according to a statement issued by the party. Pilot, along with GA Mir, Dipak Babaria, and Deepa Dasmunshi, was appointed as general secretaries, while Tariq Anwar was dropped from the list. Pande was earlier AICC in-charge of Jharkhand. The appointments come two days after a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the party's highest decision-making body, which was ...

BJP sweeps MP, wrests Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh

4Dec

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BJP sweeps MP, wrests Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday, on the back of “Modi’s guarantees”, swept aside the Congress challenge in the Hindi heartland states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan, a result that strengthened Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s prospects of leading his party to a third successive Lok Sabha triumph five months hence. The Congress consoled itself with a win in Telangana, but the results jolted the party, which would sit down, along with rest of the INDIA bloc of Opposition parties, on Wednesday, to plan the road ahead. With the Congress losing the heartland, where it had “guaranteed” a return to the Old Pension Scheme, the election results could ease the pressure on the Centre on the issue. However, the BJP had matched the Congress ‘guarantee’ for...

Edge to BJP in Madhya Pradesh, a close fight in Rajasthan: Exit polls

30Nov

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Edge to BJP in Madhya Pradesh, a close fight in Rajasthan: Exit polls

Most exit polls on Thursday predicted a photo finish in Rajasthan, with a couple of them suggesting that the Congress could be on the cusp of breaking a quarter-century trend of the state’s electorate throwing out the party in power, and that the party was ahead of the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) in Telangana and set to return to power in Chhattisgarh. The surprise, according to at least two exit polls, could be Madhya Pradesh (MP) where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) might secure a historic landslide and the Zoram People’s Movement, contesting its first Assembly elections, likely to cross the majority mark in Mizoram. The counting of votes in these five states, which is also the last round of Assembly polls before the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in April-May, ...

Fiscal Health: Chhattisgarh Second Best After Maha; Bengal, Punjab, Kerala Biggest Laggards

13Aug

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Fiscal Health: Chhattisgarh Second Best After Maha; Bengal, Punjab, Kerala Biggest Laggards

Chhattisgarh, one of the poorest states in the country, is the second best in overall fiscal health scorecard after Maharashtra, and ahead of Telangana, while the bottom three are Bengal, Punjab and Kerala, shows a report by a foreign brokerage.Based on the FY24 first budget estimates, the top three states are Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh and Telangana, and the bottom three states are Bengal, Punjab and Kerala, shows a report on the fiscal health of the key 17 states, penned by Kaushik Das, the chief economist at Deutsche Bank India.Based on the FY23 revised budget estimates, Maharashtra tops the ranking, followed by Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Telangana and Jharkhand. In contrast, Bengal fares the worst, followed by Punjab, Bihar, Rajasthan and UP, Kerala moving out of the worst five; while Andhr...