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As the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh celebrates a year today, an alliance partner has given it a poor assessment and has gone public with his view that there are “grave problems”. Om Prakash Rajbhar, a minister in the UP cabinet, also warns that the ruling BJP “will lose elections” if the government doesn’t shape up. “Celebrating and talking about building temples in Mathura and Kashi mean nothing. No one else has the guts to question this government. If speaking the truth is revolt then I am revolting,” Mr…

BJP national president Amit Shah will visit Odisha in April, a party leader said. Amit Shah is likely to arrive during the first or second week of April, BJP state president Basant Panda said in Bhubaneshwar on Sunday. During the visit, the BJP chief will attend public meetings and youth conferences in western districts like Sambalpur, Kalahandi, Sundargarh, Bolangir and Sonepur. The BJP chief is also expected to interact with local BJP leaders and prepare strategies to make the party’s base stronger ahead of the 2019 assembly polls. The BJP…

Union minister Ram Vilas Paswan today asked the NDA leaders to desist from making off-the-cuff remarks and be “more tactful” during elections, in the wake of the party’s poor showing in the recent bypolls in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. He expressed concern over some leaders of the ruling NDA at the centre occasionally making remarks that created an impression of the alliance being against certain sections of the society and also spoke about why his son spoke about course correction that the BJP needs after bypoll results. Mr Paswan’s Lok…

Niti Aayog Vice Chairman Rajiv Kumar on Sunday said that while Gujarat has done very well in industrialisation, it will need to do some catching-up in the health and education sectors. Mr Kumar met Chief Minister Vijay Rupani and senior state officials in Gandhinagar. “Gujarat’s achievements in education and health are not like those in other areas like industrialisation, infrastructure and energy….it lags behind in these two (health and education). I talked about this with the state government,” he said, speaking to reporters after the meeting. He was happy to…