Uttarakhand Government Formation

Pushkar Singh Dhami will be sworn-in as Uttarakhand Chief Minister on Wednesday at a grand ceremony to be held at the Parade Ground in Dehradun in the presence of BJP top brass, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Pushkar Singh Dhami, who will be sworn as Uttarakhand Chief Minister tomorrow, has said that he will provide a transparent government and fulfil all of BJP's pre-poll commitments, including bringing a uniform civil code.

Senior leaders of the BJP assembled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence for the second day on Tuesday evening to discuss the party's government formation in four states that it just won in the state elections.

Decimated in the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in the just concluded assembly elections, the Congress angrily attacked the BJP for "murdering democracy" as two more states, Goa and Manipur - where it had emerged as the single largest party but was short of the majority mark - appeared to be slipping through its fingers. Defence Minister Manohar Par...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday suggested that it may order a 'composite floor test' for Uttarakhand Assembly as was directed by the top court in 2005 in Jharkhand when BJP leader Arjun Munda had challenged the government formation by JMM chief Shibu Soren.

The Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) separately tried to woo independent and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lawmakers on Wednesday as uncertainty persisted over the formation of a new government in Uttarakhand following a fractured mandate in the 70-member assembly.

Uttarakhand elections: The Congress has emerged as the single largest party in Uttarakhand with 32 seats, ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a notch in the 70-member Uttarakhand assembly. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which was routed in the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, holds the key to the government formation in the hill state where it ...

Pushkar Singh Dhami will be sworn-in as Uttarakhand Chief Minister on Wednesday at a grand ceremony to be held at the Parade Ground in Dehradun in the presence of BJP top brass, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Pushkar Singh Dhami, who will be sworn as Uttarakhand Chief Minister tomorrow, has said that he will provide a transparent government and fulfil all of BJP's pre-poll commitments, including bringing a uniform civil code.

Senior leaders of the BJP assembled at Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence for the second day on Tuesday evening to discuss the party's government formation in four states that it just won in the state elections.

Decimated in the Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand in the just concluded assembly elections, the Congress angrily attacked the BJP for "murdering democracy" as two more states, Goa and Manipur - where it had emerged as the single largest party but was short of the majority mark - appeared to be slipping through its fingers. Defence Minister Manohar Par...

The Supreme Court on Wednesday suggested that it may order a 'composite floor test' for Uttarakhand Assembly as was directed by the top court in 2005 in Jharkhand when BJP leader Arjun Munda had challenged the government formation by JMM chief Shibu Soren.

The Congress and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) separately tried to woo independent and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) lawmakers on Wednesday as uncertainty persisted over the formation of a new government in Uttarakhand following a fractured mandate in the 70-member assembly.

Uttarakhand elections: The Congress has emerged as the single largest party in Uttarakhand with 32 seats, ahead of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) by a notch in the 70-member Uttarakhand assembly. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), which was routed in the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, holds the key to the government formation in the hill state where it ...