Jaideep Deo Bhanj

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L-G’s actions, excise probe, AAP-da led to AAP’s election setback

Feb 9, 2025 | thehindu.com | Jaideep Deo Bhanj |Nikhil Babu

In the first week of January, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign for the Delhi Assembly election started with Prime Minister Narendra Modi leading the attack from the front on the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). It was on Mr. Modi’s face and “Modi’s guarantee” that the BJP fought the rest of the election, without a chief ministerial face.
Delhi Assembly results: BJP sweeps AAP out of power in Delhi

Feb 8, 2025 | thehindu.com | Jaideep Deo Bhanj |Satvika Mahajan

The Bharatiya Janata Party, with its win of 48 seats, returned to power in the national capital after a gap of over 26 years scuttling the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) bid for a fourth straight term. The results of the Delhi Legislative Assembly elections held on February 5 and declared on Saturday delivered a jolt to the AAP with party supremo Arvind Kejriwal and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia losing their seats.
Arvind Kejriwal to resign as Delhi CM in two days

Sep 14, 2024 | apdirect.in | Jaideep Deo Bhanj

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal announced his resignation during an address to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers. He said he will resign in the next two days after the party selects a new person from the AAP as Chief Minister. “With the blessings of the people, we have the strength to counter all the conspiracies of the BJP. Today, we have been able to do so much for Delhi because we are honest,” Mr. Kejriwal said. “Today, they are afraid of our honesty because they are not honest.
Election Results 2024: AAP bags 3 seats in Punjab, loses Delhi seats to BJP

Jun 4, 2024 | thehindu.com | Jaideep Deo Bhanj

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), having contested in 22 seats across Delhi, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat and Assam in the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, managed to win three seats in Punjab, increasing its representation in Parliament from the sole seat it won in 2014 and 2019 elections. The party once again failed to open its account in Delhi and replicate the success it has seen at the State level in the National elections.
If BJP puts democracy in jail, then democracy will have to find a way to run from within jail, says Kejriwal

May 22, 2024 | thehindu.com | Jaideep Deo Bhanj

InterviewDelhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal says he was put in prison after false charges were foisted on him because the BJP has “accepted” that it cannot defeat his party in elections in Delhi. In an email interview, the national convener of the Aam Aadmi Party says the BJP is trying “every trick in its playbook” but people have reposed faith in AAP.
In pitched capital battle, AAP and Congress find synergies

May 21, 2024 | thehindu.com | Jaideep Deo Bhanj

In an attempt to stop the Bharatiya Janata Party from sweeping all seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital for the third time, once bitter rivals the Aam Aadmi Party and Congress, have come together in a seat-sharing agreement under the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA). The AAP is fighting on four seats and the Congress from three.
Narendra Modi will continue to lead, says Amit Shah on Kejriwal’s ‘retirement at 75’ remark

May 11, 2024 | thehindu.com | Jaideep Deo Bhanj

Back on the campaign trail after being released from Tihar Jail on interim bail, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that voting for Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2024 Lok Sabha election would amount to voting for Amit Shah as Prime Minister as Mr. Modi would be set to retire from politics as he turns 75 on September 17, 2025.
How is Arvind Kejriwal functioning from Tihar Jail? | Explained

May 4, 2024 | thehindu.com | Jaideep Deo Bhanj |Soibam Rocky Singh

The story so far: Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been lodged in Tihar Jail since April 1 after being arrested by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) on charges of corruption and money laundering in the execution of the Delhi government’s now scrapped excise policy for 2021-22. On May 3, the Supreme Court forewarned the ED that it may “consider” granting interim bail to Mr. Kejriwal due to the Lok Sabha election. Delhi votes on May 25. What is the Aam Aadmi Party’s strategy?
LS tickets to ‘outsiders’, tie-up with AAP at heart of Lovely’s resignation

Apr 28, 2024 | thehindu.com | Jaideep Deo Bhanj

The unease within Congress ranks over the seat-sharing pact with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the Lok Sabha poll and party tickets to “outsiders” overlooking the local leadership led to Arvinder Singh Lovely’s resignation from the post of its Delhi unit chief.
Want to give back to society, say UPSC toppers

Apr 16, 2024 | thehindu.com | Jaideep Deo Bhanj

Aditya Srivastava who secured the top rank in the Civil Services Examination (CSE) conducted by the Union Public Service Commission (UPSC), results of which were declared on Tuesday, quit his job at Goldman Sachs, an investment banking company, to prepare for the examination as he wanted to get away from his desk job and work for the betterment of the society. A B. Tech in electrical engineering from IIT Kanpur, Mr. Srivastava, who hails from Lucknow, topped the examination in his third attempt.