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Under a warm sun that marked the end of winter, Arvind Kejriwal took his third oath as Delhi chief minister in seven years. Keen to reshape his and his party’s image from that of disruptors to a centrist, problem-solving umbrella party, the 51-year-old bureaucrat-turned-politician sought cooperation from rival parties in making Delhi the “number one city”. Kejriwal reached out to supporters of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Congress, and other parties, and said he was now their CM too and they should approach him unhesitatingly. He said he was keen to move beyond the bad blood of elections, and sought cooperation and blessings of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Centre. “ I had invited Prime Minister Narendra Modi but he could not come as he may have been busy. We want to seek his blessings for smooth governance of Delhi,” Kejriwal said in his nearly 20-minute address. The prime minister, who was in his constituency Varanasi where he inaugurated several projects, later g...

The Congress on Friday fielded actress Urmila Matondkar from Mumbai North Lok Sabha constituency two days after she joined the party. Matondkar had joined the Congress after meeting Rahul Gandhi on Wednesday and had later said that she was "here to stay". "The Congress central election committee has approved the candidature of Urmila Matondkar as party candidate to contest the ensuing general elections from Mumbai North parliamentary constituency in Maharashtra," a party statement said. After joining the party, Matondkar had said she felt the need to join the Congress party as the freedom to express was under attack in the country and there are numerous examples in this regard in the last five years. She had said the Congress party has participated in the freedom struggle and it stood for freedom. Read More Article Source -> Business Standard

Congress President Rahul Gandhi will formally dispatch the gathering's survey battle in Kerala on Thursday when he will address an enormous rally of specialists at Kozhikode on March 14. Gandhi will touch base here tonight after his projects in Nagercoil and Kanyakumari in neighboring Tamil Nadu . He has no official projects in the state Wednesday and in the wake of coming to here, would load up an uncommon trip to Kochi and go through the night at a visitor house in Thrissur, KPCC president Mullappally Ramachandran said. The Congress boss would go to a progression of projects on March 14, starting with the "anglers' parliament" at Triprayar in Thrissur. Afterward, he would travel to Kannur, where he would meet the group of killed Youth Congress pioneer Shuhaib at the air terminal there. He would leave for Kasargod and meet the groups of Kripesh and Sarathlal, the adolescent congress activists, who were supposedly slaughtered by the CPI(M) as of l...