Yogi Adityanath to remain boss in UP as party gears up for assembly polls
Words of appreciation by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief J.P. Nadda have not only silenced the critics of Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath, but it also shows that he will be the choice of party leadership to lead in the next year s assembly polls.
A senior party functionary of Uttar Pradesh told IANS that now all the doubts among cadres about the party s face in next year s assembly polls have been removed. Recent moves of the party have shown that the central leadership have full faith in the Yogi Adityanath government and the BJP will contest the assembly polls under his leadership, he said.
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Political Commentator
IN 2014, when PM Narendra Modi formed his first Cabinet, it carried a touch of Arun Jaitley. It included many Jaitley ‘boys and girls’ like Nirmala Sitharaman, Piyush Goyal, Dharmendra Pradhan and Prakash Javadekar. Jaitley himself got Finance and was given the additional charge of Defence.
In 2021, the Cabinet reshuffle bears the stamp of Amit Shah, be it the elevation of Anurag Thakur, G Kishan Reddy, Parshottam Rupala or the induction of Bhupendra Yadav or Meenakshi Lekhi and several others. This is not surprising, for the Prime Minister relies on Shah’s counsel on most matters.
Taliban making gains in Afghanistan Daily News (via HT Media Ltd.)
The Taliban have seized dozens of districts in recent weeks and are now thought to control about a third of the country, making new gains on a daily basis. So far provincial capitals have remained under government control.
The Taliban has been making gains as the US and allies pull out. On Wednesday, the Taliban entered Qala-e-Naw, the first direct attack on a provincial capital since Washington began pulling out its last troops.
The vast majority of remaining foreign forces in Afghanistan have left ahead of September 11 deadline, leaving the Afghan military completely in charge of national security. Under a deal with the Taliban, the US and its NATO allies agreed to withdraw all troops in return for a commitment by the militants that they will prevent extremist groups from operating in areas they control. But the Taliban did not agree to stop fighting Afghan forces, whose ability to hold off the
The word revolution is often thrown around casually. Let’s extend that lexical liberty. First, take the ‘forcible’ and ‘overthrow’ part out from the dictionary meaning. Now stretch what remains so that it can cover an existing regime’s manoeuvres to extend its durability and appeal. Implausible though it may sound, what happened on June 7 in the Durbar Hall of Rashtrapati Bhawan was that sort of revolution.
Of course it was top down grand gestures to signal the final dismantling of the old order. Narendra Modi likes to do things with a big bang. The scale is an important element in his thinking. Shake up the system or replace it. Make everyone feel the impact. There are Cabinet expansions and Cabinet expansions this one was a Sardar Patel statue among them, dwarfing all else. No other Indian PM has attempted something like this.
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