A political leader who effortlessly changed hats he wore for Bharat and India, died today. Ajit Singh, 82, variously known as leader of farmers, Jats and representative of the area loosely known as western Uttar Pradesh, several-term union minister and a trained engineer from IIT who worked at IBM for a brief period, had been politically inactive in recent years. But he inherited a strong political legacy left behind by his father, former prime minister Charan Singh, that he has bequeathed to his son, Jayant Choudhary, former MP from Mathura.
Ajit Singh cut his teeth on non-Congress politics, though he did steer his party into an alliance with the second Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government till 2014. His primary constituency was farmers of western UP, both Hindu and Muslim. This region, that sends one of the largest contingents of MPs from UP to the Lok Sabha, made him an essential part of many of the coalition governments in the 1990s and 2000s. Through his
About the just-concluded West Bengal assembly elections, there are three things to celebrate and one to be worried about. The celebrations are for the fact that: a) people s will got expressed and to that extent democracy worked; b) religion-based politics took a battering, but only just; and c) a new charismatic woman leader has emerged whose sheer willpower, inexhaustible energy, fighting spirit, self-belief and personal honesty could inspire a whole generation of young leaders who may be able to steer India away from today s corrupt politics and also be an example for the region.
It is most gratifying to see democracy in operation next door while in many countries, including ours, we are witnessing a highly controlled expression of people s will and a gradual denigration of individual rights and freedoms. With governments becoming more and more powerful, with public money being increasingly usurped by those holding power for personal and party politicking purposes, and with newer
Puducherry Assembly Election 2021 Result Live: Counting of votes begins in Union Territory
08:08 AM IST: Pudicherry Election Results 2021: The counting of the votes has begin in Pudicherry. Couting is taking place in four states Tamil Nadu, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and one Union Territory Puducherry has started. The early trends will start tricking in a few moments later.
07:48 AM IST: The battle in Puducherry has been between the Congress and All India NR Congress led by former Chief Minister N Rangasamy. It was the last Congress bastion in the South which was lost recently due to a spate of resignations. Five Congress MLAs and one legislator from ally DMK resigned in January-February this year, leading to the fall of the V Narayanasamy government in Puducherry on February 22. The UT has been under President’s rule since.
Assembly Election 2021: Counting of votes in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry begins
While counting began at 8 am, by noon the trend will be known as to who would storm the Fort St. George. Image for representation , Zee News
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Updated: May 2, 2021, 08:06 AM IST
The electoral fate of 3,998 candidates who fought in the April 6 Tamil Nadu assembly polls will be known on Sunday, May 2. While it will be a celebration day for the 234-successful candidates and also for the winning political party/combination, one can also hear Mayday! Mayday! Mayday! cries from some others.
As per the Election Commission of India, 72.81 percent of the 6.29 crore voters have cast their votes in the poll. Apart from the Assembly election results, the bypoll results for the Kanniyakumari Lok Sabha constituency will also be known on Sunday.
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There is a 17.8 per cent vote swing in favour of the UPA and a 1.4 per cent swing in favour of the NDA. In 2016, the UPA had got 31 per cent votes, while the NDA managed 41.5 per cent votes.
The NDA is set to lose 21 seats with the highest loss of 7 seats in lower Assam and Barak Valley.
In Bodoland the NDA is set to win 10 seats, while in the tea estate areas it is poised to win 29 seats, repeating its 2016 performance.
The 126-member Assam Assembly may see a hung Assembly and Independents and others will be the key players in such a scenario.