Politics

• Mukesh Sahni's brother Santosh Sahni participated in a government programme and handed over the keys of vehicles to beneficiaries
• The banner at the venue had the name of the department's minister Mukesh Sahni as the inaugurator, but the minister did not arrive

• Chief Minister Edappadi K Palaniswami will contest elections from the Edappadi constituency and Deputy Chief Minister O Panneerselvam will contest from Bodinayakanur

• 'Will fight from Nandigram, will vacate Bhowanipore,' the Trinamool Congress chief said on Friday
• TMC announced 291 names of party candidates for the 2021 elections in Bengal. The party has dropped several sitting MLAs and ministers from the list

• Post the meeting, TMC supremo Banerjee will likely announce the candidate list for all 294 seats for the West Bengal Assembly polls

• BJP national president JP Nadda also extended greetings to Chouhan
• Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan planted a sapling at his residence in Bhopal on the occasion

• The CEC of the BJP has discussed the candidates for two phases of the Assembly elections for West Bengal and Assam. The party is likely to announce the list of candidates for both states soon

• No announcement on the name of the candidates has been made so far
• Banerjee had sprung a surprise earlier in January when she declared that she will contest the assembly elections from Nandigram

• 'People know very well what is good for them and what is good for the state. I am very confident they will elect BJP to power,' Sreedharan said

• We wish Mamata Didi a 'roaring' success, 'cos we believe She is the real Bengal Tigress, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut said
• West Bengal is likely to witness a triangular contest this time with TMC, Congress-Left alliance and the BJP in the fray

Khan faced a surprise loss in the country’s Senate after Finance Minister Abdul Hafeez Shaikh lost a tightly fought battle for a seat in the indirectly elected house against the opposition-backed former Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani

• The NDA in Tamil Nadu consisted of lead alliance partner AIADMK with BJP, PMK, DMDK of Vijaykanth and the Tamil Maanila Congress
• The alliance was rejected by the voters of Tamil Nadu in the 2019 Lok Sabha when the DMK-led alliance won 38 of the 39 seats

We have proceeded phase-wise, we all saw results in the Lok Sabha elections. We are going ahead with mantra of '19 mein half, 21 mein saaf, Ghosh says

• Sreedharan joined the BJP last month in Malappuram during the party's Vijaya Yatra
• The Metroman joining the party has given a boost to the saffron front for making huge electoral inroads in Kerala

• The chief minister's comments came after opposition leaders picked holes in the government's initiatives such as the Me Jababdar campaign which are aimed at curbing the spread of the disease
• Maharashtra CM also warned that those behaving in irresponsible way and endangering others' lives would be put in jail

• In a statement, Sasikala added, 'I pray for golden rule of Amma (Jayalalithaa)'
• She urged AIADMK cadre to stand united and ensure DMK is defeated in forthcoming Assembly elections

• Asking why the Union government has not conferred Bharat Ratna on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, the Hindutva ideologue, Uddhav Thackeray said in the Assembly that the BJP should not teach Hindutva to its former ally, the Shiv Sena

• The investments would help in reducing this cost to a more acceptable benchmark of 8 per cent, and that is 'the need of the hour today and India cannot be competitive as long as our logistics cost remain so high', Piyush Goyal said at the Maritime India Summit

• Explaining the rationale behind such proposition, Aaditya Thackeray, who is son of Sena president and Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray, said a single authority will help set better accountability

• 'I have no idea about it, nor has there been any discussion in the meeting,' Ghosh said while speaking to reporters

• BJP National General Secretary in-charge of Karnataka Arun Singh is said to have communicated the party's decision to the state leadership, keeping in mind assembly polls in five states, also panchayat elections in the state