Swaraj India, the fledgling political party under the leadership of former AAP leaders such as Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan, announced that a large chunk of AAP’s office bearers in Kerala have joined the party. These include 77 elected State Coordination Committee members and around 700 volunteers, according to a statement from the party. Among […]
Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party is all set to sweep the upcoming Delhi Assembly elections, said the first opinion poll to be conducted ahead of the next month’s elections. The poll was commissioned by ABP News and conducted by Centre for Voting Opinion & Trends in Election Research (C-Voter), and indicated hardly any loss of […]
The Public Works Department will set up a network of closed circuit cameras in Delhi by September. The contract for the project has been awarded to Bharat Electronics Ltd or BEL, which has in turn contracted Mumbai-based Aurionpro Solutions Ltd for the installation and maintenance of the surveillance system. “Aurionpro shall supply and install cameras […]
Finance Minister Arun Jaitley is unlikely to withdraw the defamation case filed against Aam Aadmi Party Supremo Arvind Kejriwal, according to sources. Instead, the legal team of Arun Jaitley, himself a lawyer, will mention the matter before the Chief Justice of the Delhi High Court today. Jaitley wants a legal settlement in which the allegations […]
Maruti Suzuki India Limited said it entered into an agreement with the Government of NCT of Delhi to set up Driving Test Centres in 12 locations in the city. In the first phase, these Automated Driving Test Centres will be set up at Hauz Khas, Shakur Basti, Raja Garden, Hari Nagar, Burari, Loni Road, Sarai […]
The Delhi government has suspended the license of the Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh after it was implicated in wrongly declaring a newbord dead. “They cannot take any new patients, but they can continue to treat the existing patients,” Delhi’s health minister Satyendar Jain said. The move comes even as the Haryana Government on Thursday […]
A survey by industry association Assocham has found that the majority of people who send their children to government schools are “overwhelmingly satisfied” with the performance of the schools. Improving the performance of government schools has been a high priority for the Aam Aadmi Party government in Delhi, and the task was taken up by […]
The Aam Aadmi Party led by Arvind Kejriwal is all set to retain the Bawana constituency in Delhi, giving a much-needed morale booster to the embattled AAP leader. According to the latest bypoll results, the Aam Aadmi Party is at about 36,878 votes, followed by the Congress Party at 24,648 votes and the BJP at […]
Estranged Aam Aadmi Party leader Kapil Mishra said he will file a police complaint against Arvind Kejriwal today. The rebel AAP leader has accused the party supremo of taking bribes and acting like a dictator within the party. “It is with a heavy heart that I am doing this,” Mishra said, while reading from a […]
Former compatriot and head of Aam Aadmi Party Maharashtra, Mayank Gandhi has assailed Arvind Kejriwal in an acerbic letter that traces the AAP leader’s rise and fall over the last five years. Gandhi, who left the organization after founder members like Yogendra Yadav and Prashant Bhushan were “humiliated and expelled” three years ago, said Kejriwal […]
BJP 181 CONGRESS 31 AAP 46 OTHERS 12 The initial trends from the Delhi Municipal Corporation (MCD) elections indicate that the prediction of exit polls of a demise for the Aam Aadmi Party have turned out to be correct. The BJP is all set to come to power in the municipal corporation for the third […]
Swaraj India, the political outfit floated by breakaway Aam Aadmi Party faction led by Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, will fight the upcoming election to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on the ‘whistle’ symbol. The move follows successful registration of the whistle symbol by 95% of the party’s candidates for the poll scheduled to be […]
An analysis of the election filings of the newly elected members of Punjab Legislative Assembly revealed that Navjot Singh Sidhu, the ex-cricketer and television personality who joined the Indian National Congress just before the election, is the highest-earning member of the house. The analysis by the Association for Democratic Reform also revealed that 8 out of […]
Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal took to his account to protest the deletion of several AAP accounts after the social media company changed its anti-abuse algorithm. Three days ago, Twitter had said that it was putting in more safeguards against abuse and manipulation on its platform — a very widespread complaint. “This week we’re […]
Navjot Singh Siddhu, the cricketer turned politician and a vehement critic of the Indian National Congress for several years, justified his decision to join the party saying that no party, by itself, is good or bad. “No party is good or bad. The same party can be run by bad people, the same party can […]
For long, the Bharatiya Janata Party held the upper hand on Twitter — which — along with comment boards on news websites — forms the ‘wild west’ of political online campaigning in India with large-scale manipulation, ‘fake’ accounts, bullying and targeted attacks. Not to be outdone, the Aam Aadmi Party — or some of its […]
Taking different interesting angle on the ongoing fight over the death of a Dalit research scholar in Hyderabad University, the Aam Aadmi Party has said that the student needed to be “reformed”, and not pushed to the point of suicide. “This could have been avoided, Rohith could have been reformed, but they chose to ignore […]
Despite protests, the Delhi government has tabled Lokpal bill in the Assembly. Leaders of Swaraj Abhiyan, the hardline group that split from Aam Aadmi Party, including Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav were detained by the police after they marched to the Delhi Assembly against the ‘toothless’ Lokpal in Delhi. The bill is unlikely to be […]
Activist Medha Patkar, who quit Aam Aadmi Party a few months ago over policies of Arvind Kejriwal, has come out in support of former AAP colleague Yogendra Yadav, who has been arrested by the central government for holding a protest without permission. “Narmada Bachao Andolan condemns the arbitrary arrest of Yogendra Yadav and other Saathis […]
Swaraj Abhiyan, the new outfit floated by Aam Aadmi Party leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav, said it is planning to establish ‘Aman’ or peace committees across India to counter religious polarization. The move is a response to attempts by fundamentalist religious and political forces to increase divisions within the Indian society, Prashant Bhushan said. […]
