Bihar Elections 2025: Former Union minister Ramchandra Prasad Singh, popularly known as RCP Singh, on Sunday joined hands with his long-time detractor Prashant Kishor. Singh merged his Aap Sabki Awaaz Party (ASAP) with the Kishor’s Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) â months ahead of Bihar Assembly elections 2025. The merger means political foes turning friends. RCP…
Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram has voiced concerns about the opposition’s INDIA bloc. The former Union Minister has said that he was not sure if the opposition alliance was still intact. “The future (of INDIA bloc) is not so bright, as Mritunjay Singh Yadav said. He seems to feel that the alliance is still intact,…
The Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led government’s push for caste enumeration has stirred the political pot in the country ahead of the Bihar Assembly election. The decision to conduct caste enumeration along with the upcoming census was taken in the high-level Cabinet Committee on Political Affairs (CCPA) meeting held after the Pahalgam terror attack. Hereâs what…
Waqf Law Hearing Live: A major constitutional debate unfolds today as the Supreme Court takes up 73 petitions questioning the legality and constitutional standing of the Waqf (Amendment) Act. A total of 73 petitions have been listed for hearing before a three-judge bench of the Supreme Court comprising Chief Justice of India Sanjiv Khanna, Justice…
Jan Suraaj party founder Prashant Kishor has claimed that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar was “physically tired and mentally retired.” Kishor urged voters to ensure that Janata Dal (United) must not win even one seat in the assembly polls due later this year. âNitish Kumar has managed to hold on to the seat of power…
Notably, fiscal consolidation remains the budgetâs primary focus, with its fiscal-deficit target set at 4.4% of GDP, a further reduction of 0.4 percentage points. This is underpinned by conservative assumptions, including nominal GDP growth of just above 10% and its measured expectation of tax buoyancy at 1.07, after the highs of 1.40 in 2023-24 and…
In these years, the number of tax filers has gone up from 65 million to 80 million, which is still less than 6% of the population. Of all those filers, barely 25 million pay more than zero tax. Thanks to the recent hike in the exemption ceiling, it is possible that another 8 to 10…
Jan Suraaj chief Prashant Kishor challenged the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) that if the party claims to be the leader of Muslims, then instead of using them as âvote bank,â they should give tickets to the people from the cmmunity according to their population. “If rights are to be given based on the population, then…
