Anshuman Mishra

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  "He Told Me He Won't Die Ordinary Death": Captain Anshuman Singh's Widow

  Captain Anshuman Singh was posted with 26 Punjab as a medical officer in the Siachen Glacier area. On July 19, 2023, a short circuit led to a fire in an Indian Army ammunition dump around 3 am.

• Rajya Sabha polls: More trouble for BJP in Jharkhand?

  After the controversy over its candidate for the Rajya Sabha elections from Jharkhand, Anshuman Mishra, the BJP seems to be heading for fresh trouble. Sources have told NDTV that its coalition partner in the state, the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM), has asked the BJP to withdraw its candidate SS Ahluwalia.

• Election Commission countermands Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand for 'horse-trading'

  In an unprecedented move, the Election Commission (EC), on Friday, countermanded the Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand. The strict action by the poll panel, also the first ever, came amidst reports of "horse-trading" and the seizure of cash worth over Rs 2 crore from a car belonging to a candidate's relative.

• Anshuman Mishra apologises to BJP leaders

  Anshuman Mishra, who had levelled certain allegations against BJP leaders after the party backed out of supporting him for Rajya Sabha seat from Jharkhand, today retracted his comments and apologised to the party leaders. The NRI businessman apologised to L K Advani, M M Joshi, Nitin Gadkari, Yashwant Sinha and Arun Jaitley hours after Mr Jaitley s...

• Arun Jaitley sends defamation notice to Anshuman Mishra

  The tiff between NRI businessman Anshuman Mishra and senior BJP leaders is getting murkier. Party leader Arun Jaitley has now sent a defamation notice to Mr Mishra for making "baseless allegations."

• Gadkari hits out at Anshuman Mishra, calls allegations baseless

  BJP President Nitin Gadkari today hit out at NRI business Anshuman Mishra terming his allegations against party veteran Murli Manohar Joshi and some other leaders as "baseless" and an "expression of frustration" over his failure to make it to the Raja Sabha.

• Gadkari faces heat over Anshuman Mishra's Rajya Sabha fiasco

  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may have rejected NRI businessman Anshuman Mishra's claims that he was offered a Rajya Sabha nomination by party president Nitin Gadkari, but serious differences within the party seem to be surfacing. There is discontentment among senior party leaders on the way Mr Gadkari handled the issue.

• Congress slams BJP over Anshuman Mishra's fund-raising claims

  The Congress has hit out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) a day after NRI businessman Anshuman Mishra alleged that he had funded the election campaign of senior BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi in 2004 and 2009. Mr Mishra, who withdrew from the Rajya Sabha race from Jharkhand at the last moment, had claimed that he was BJP's fund-raiser for over a...

• Why Anshumam Mishra is worried he's going bald

  Anshuman Mishra, a 37-year-old businessman from London, has accomplished a rare feat - he united the senior-most leaders of the BJP. From LK Advani to Sushma Swaraj, they all agreed that the entrepreneur's background and his status as an "outsider" in Jharkhand make him an unsuitable candidate.

• Anshuman Mishra obliges BJP, pulls out of Rajya Sabha election

  Nitin Gadkari stood completely isolated on Wednesday with leaders from the BJP and its parent body, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), expressing fierce criticism of a major decision he made. As the president of the BJP, Mr Gadkari had decided that the party would back Anshuman Mishra, an independent MLA from Jharkhand, for the Rajya Sabha elec...

• BJP will not support Anshuman Mishra as Rajya Sabha candidate

  In a clumsy attempt at course-correction, the BJP has now said it will not support Anshuman Mishra, a businessman and an Independent candidate for the Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand. The reversal comes after senior party leaders made clear that support to Mr Mishra was not acceptable to them.

• Why BJP is working to defeat its own Rajya Sabha candidate in Jharkhand

  Amidst growing criticism within the BJP over his nomination, Anshuman Mishra, a businessman and the party's candidate for the Rajya Sabha from Jharkhand, may withdraw from the electoral race today, sources have told NDTV.

• 'Don't put power on sale': BJP leaders upset with Rajya Sabha candidates

  It's Nitin Gadkari versus the rest of the BJP leadership. A crisis over the party president's alleged choice of candidates for the Rajya Sabha has led to BJP veteran LK Advani asking for an emergency meeting of BJP leaders.