Tribune News Service Nainital, January 18 The first biennial convention of the Uttarakhand Parivartan Party (UPP) began at Ramnagar today. On the opening day of the two-day meet, party workers constituted the core committee of the political outfit. PC Tewari was again chosen as president…
SMA Kazmi Tribune News Service January 10, 2011 Uttarakhand is perhaps the only state in the country that has seen the decline of a regional political party since it came into being on November 9, 2000. Since the country attained Independence, and particularly in the…
Ajay Ramola Tribune News Service Dehradun, November 8 As the state machinery prepares to celebrate the 10th anniversary of State Formation Day, hill people, who remained at the forefront of the statehood agitation, are yet to feel the impact of the achievements made by the…
The UKD’s development-at-all-costs mantra took a new turn, with their only minister aggressively attacking Prof. G.D. Aggarwal who recently fasted against the controversial dams in the upper Ganga. The odious insults have only further sullied the reputation of the UKD that has been in a…
Rajeev Khanna Tribune News Service Nainital, August 14 Uttarakhand politicians have been gradually earning the reputation of degrading the level of politics in the state. The region that has produced stalwarts like Gobind Ballabh Pant and Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna has been witnessing mudslinging over the…
Sidharth Mishra | New Delhi Daily Pioneer, March 1, 2007 At the end of the month-long election campaign, a general consensus prevailed that the BJP, though it would remain far ahead of the Congress, would fall short of the halfway mark. The matters were not…
Vijai Rawat January 20, 2002 THE CPI(M) in Uttarakhand took an organisational step forward with the announcement of its decision to constitute a separate State Organising Committee of the party for the new state. The announcement was made by the CPI(M) Polit Bureau member, Prakash…
The Bharatiya Janata Party government in Uttaranchal celebrates the State’s first birth anniversary with a hail of election promises. PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI in Dehra Dun Frontline Volume 18 – Issue 24, Nov. 24 – Dec. 07, 2001 ALTHOUGH with an unimpressive track record, the Bharatiya…
An inner-party revolt against Chief Minister Nityanand Swamy and the people’s disenchantment with the government have made the going tough for the Bharatiya Janata Party in Uttaranchal. PURNIMA S. TRIPATHI In Dehra Dun IF the elections to the Uttar Pradesh Assembly are a “real test”…
Vijay Simha Indian Express, Sun Oct 04 1998 NEW DELHI, Oct 3: Reflecting the current plurality in her party, Congress president Sonia Gandhi today admitted virtually the entire Uttarakhand Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) unit into her fold while keeping speculation alive on a possible understanding…