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Rajasthan CM may be named today as BJP plans legislative party meet | Latest News India

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The newly-elected Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs in Rajasthan will hold a meeting on Tuesday and likely pick the legislative party leader, ending days of speculation over who will be the chief minister. The BJP returned to power in Rajasthan last week after winning 115 of the 199 seats that went to the polls on November 25. (HT/File) According to party leaders aware of the details, defence minister Rajnath Singh, who has been appointed as observer by the party, and two co-observers – Vinod Tawde and Saroj Pande – will arrive on Tuesday morning for the meeting which will be held at 4pm at the party office. Stay tuned with breaking news on HT Channel on Facebook. Join Now “The meeting of the BJP Legislature Party has been called at 4 pm on Tuesday at the BJP state office. Registration of all newly elected MLAs of the BJP will start at 1.30 pm,” BJP state general secretary and MLA Bhajanlal Sharma said. The BJP returned to power in Rajasthan last week after winning 115 of …

Chhattisgarh done, race for CM in MP, Rajasthan continues; Bhopal meet today | Latest News India

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With the announcement of the first-ever tribal chief minister for Chhattisgarh, the Bharatiya Janata Party began to scotch the suspense over selecting candidates for the top position more than a week after the party won in the heartland states in the assembly elections. The party will now take the much-anticipated decision to pick chief ministers for Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. Vasundhara Raje (L). Shivraj Singh Chouhan (R) Following the trend in Chhattisgarh and amid recent buzz, the BJP is likely to opt for a new line of leadership in the remaining states. However, former Rajasthan CM Vasundhara Raje and incumbent Madhya Pradesh CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan remain to be tough contenders for the race. Stay tuned with breaking news on HT Channel on Facebook. Join Now Party huddle in Bhopal today The BJP’s newly elected Madhya Pradesh MLAs will meet in Bhopal on Monday to elect the leader of the legislative party, people aware of the matter said. The meeting will be supervised by Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar, national secretary Asha Lakra and …

Rajasthan | Gehlot’s lessons in profligacy

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Thousands of crores have been spent on cosmetic touches in Rajasthan’s Kota. A chic new riverfront is the latest addition to that frenzied beautification, though it has landed in a controversy over allegedly flouting environmental norms. Amid criticism, Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot decided to distance himself from the inauguration. But can he justify the wanton spending on other projects? BILL OF DEVELOPMENT: The beautified Chambal riverfront in Kota ISSUE DATE: Sep 25, 2023 | UPDATED: Sep 15, 2023 17:38 IST A helical clover bridge sounds like a sleek thing right out of some First World xanadu. This one, built at a cost of Rs 42 crore, is in Rajasthan’s Kota, but it soars and twists balletically too, for about a kilometre, except that it lands a few metres from where it started. Even more mystifyingly, it soars over nothing: there’s no crossing or rail track or any form of obstruction underneath. Just a few minutes away, along the Chambal, a new riverfront was inaugurated with great pomp on September 12—a costly façade laid end-to-end over …

Poll-bound Rajasthan | Welfare state

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Amidst a pre-election frenzy of welfare schemes and freebies, the Gehlot regime also enacts a couple of first-in-India bills FOURTH TERM IN MIND: CM Ashok Gehlot distributing social security pension in Sikar. ISSUE DATE: Aug 21, 2023 | UPDATED: Aug 11, 2023 16:13 IST Ascribe it to a genuine feel for the people or to plain shrewdness, but Ashok Gehlot has made social welfare a consistent focus of his administration. A special urgency to tend to the general weal seems to grip the Rajasthan chief minister especially before elections—a time such as now. Whether born of principle or exigency, this bent continues to give Rajasthan some pioneering policy moments. Back in 2011, during his second term, the Free Medicine Scheme was one such. More than an unthinking handout, it was an intervention that answered to a historical need, at a time when increasingly privatised healthcare was bleeding the mass of immiserated citizenry. Crafted around the procurement of generic medicines, it helped break the tyranny of huge mark-ups on branded drugs. Now, the budget session of …