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Rajasthan Assembly Bypolls: BJP names Karilal Nanoma its candidate for Chorasi seat

Rajasthan Assembly Bypolls: BJP names Karilal Nanoma its candidate for Chorasi seat

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Bharatiya Janata Party supporters at the venue of BJP’s election rally. File | Photo Credit: PTI The BJP on Thursday (October 24, 2024) declared Karilal Nanoma as its candidate for the bypolls to the Chorasi assembly seat in Rajasthan. With this, the party has declared candidates on all seven Assembly seats going to bypolls on November 23. Also Read: Congress deals with veterans demands as BJP works out caste equations for Rajasthan by-poll In the earlier list issued on October 19, the BJP fielded Jagmohan Meena from Dausa, Rajendra Bhambhu from Jhunjhunu, Sukhwant Singh from Ramgarh, Rajendra Gurjar from Deoli-Ujiara, Revant Ram Danga from Khinvsar and Shanta Devi Meena from Salumbar. Also Read: State Congress Chief Dotasra rejects alliance with other parties The last date for filing nomination papers is October 25. Voting will be held on November 13 and the results will be declared on November 23. Published – October 24, 2024 12:59 pm IST Disclaimer: We do not own any of the content, ideas, images, or text presented here. All rights belong to …

Bhajan Lal Sharma takes oath as Rajasthan CM in presence of BJP top brass

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BJP leader Bhajan Lal Sharma takes oath as Rajasthan Chief Minister during his swearing-in ceremony, in Jaipur, on December 15, 2023. | Photo Credit: PTI First-time MLA Bhajan Lal Sharma was sworn in as the Chief Minister of Rajasthan at a ceremony attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP’s top leadership on Friday, 12 days after the party ousted the Congress in the assembly polls. Mr. Sharma, a BJP state general secretary, took charge of the State on the day he turned 57. Along with him, Diya Kumari and Prem Chand Bairwa were sworn in as the Deputy Chief Ministers by Governor Kalraj Mishra. All three took the oath in Hindi. The outgoing Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot attended the ceremony held in front of the historic Albert Hall here. A large gathering of BJP MLAs and workers from across the state witnessed it. A Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh-backed leader, Mr. Sharma was appointed the leader of the BJP legislature party on December 12. Top leaders attend The swearing-in ceremony was attended by PM Modi, …

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 …