By PRAKASH BHANDARI The BJP has played the social engineering card in Rajasthan with an eye on the Lok Sabha election where the party will try and retain all the 25 seats that it had won in the 2014 and 2019 elections. Tuesday, December 12, 2023, was Margsheersh Krishna Paksh Amavasya day, according to the
Buta Singh, Indira Gandhi s right hand man, passes away
ByRadhika RamaseshanRadhika Ramaseshan / Updated: Jan 3, 2021, 10:40 IST
Congress leader and no stranger to controversies
Buta Singh had the luck of the devil. When the senior Congress leader fell from grace, it was not a fall many would have survived in the rough-and-tumble of politics, but he managed to scrape through. That was Singh, the former Union minister, a Dalit from Punjab, who always lived life on the edge. The news of his death on January 2, in Delhi’s AIIMS at 86, comes as a huge blow to a party already reeling with the loss of stalwarts like Ahmed Patel and Motilal Vora.