Tag: BJP
Alphonse Kannanthanam, Once a blue-eyed Boy of CPM, Gets Rewarded by BJP, Becomes Chandigarh Administrator
New Delhi: Alphonse Kannanthanam, former IAS Officer and former MLA, has been made administrator of Chandigarh. Kannanthanam who joined BJP in 2011 is currently a member of BJP’s national executive council.
Sidhu Resigns from Rajya Sabha
NEW DELHI: In a surprise move, BJP leader Navjot Singh Sidhu resigned from Rajya Sabha.
Prime Minister Expands Ministry With an Eye on Elections in UP
New Delhi: Prime Minister Narendra Mody dropped five ministers from his council on Tuesday and expanded it by inducting 19 new faces.
The nature of the expansion and the profile of the new faces show that Narendra Modi has done this exercise with an eye on the upcoming elections in the state of Uttar Pradesh and to implement the party’s agenda of bringing Dalits and backwards closer. Several of the new faces belong to the dalit and OBC categories.
Syro-Malabar Cardinal Bats for BJP; Welcomes Uniform Civil Code
Kochi: Cardinal George Alenchery, head of the Syro-Malabar Church, which is a constituent of the the Catholic Church in India, has come out in the open in support of the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party’s ( BJP) move to bring Uniform Civil Code in India.