Ghar Wapsi

BJP MP Kirodi Lal Meena has claimed that the Gurjar community in Rajasthan has made a "ghar wapsi (homecoming)" to the BJP as its "big leader" Sachin Pilot was betrayed by the Congress and not made the chief minister.

Rajib Banerjee, a minister in the Mamta Banerjee government who had left Trinamool Congress and the Bengal Assembly in January, dramatically clutching a photograph of the chief minister close to his heart, is back in the Trinamool Congress today.

The ghar wapsi, or homecoming, of Mukul Roy is part of the Trinamool Congress' strategy to strike while the iron is hot and demolish the BJP in Bengal, where it still has 18 Lok Sabha MPs, ahead of the 2024 election

An eighth round of talks between the centre and farmers protesting the agriculture laws was held on Friday but it failed to break a months-long deadlock between the two parties, who remain divided on repeal of the laws and legal guarantee for MSP

Taking a swipe at Sachin Pilot over his claim that he is not joining the BJP, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal today asked what happens to his "ghar wapsi" and whether Rajasthan's dissident legislators are vacationing in Haryana under the "watchful eye" of the BJP.

Jyotiraditya Scindia is set to join the BJP after a stunning exit from the Congress, his party of 18 years, following months of disenchantment with his leadership. His aunt Yashodhara Raje Scindia, a BJP MLA, describes his move as "ghar wapsi" and says there were reasons for the younger Scindia to take such a big step, one that was taken decades ag...

Jyotiraditya Scindia's decision to quit the Congress was welcomed by aunt and Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA Yashodhara Raje, who praised Mr Scindia for a step "taken in (the) national interest" and called it a "ghar wapsi (homecoming)"

Shiv Sena on Thursday cast doubts over Raghubar Das-led BJP government's return to power in Jharkhand, as it stated that people there are not in the mood of their "ghar wapsi".

Uddhav Thackeray will be sworn in tomorrow at Mumbai's sprawling Shivaji Park as Chief Minister of a Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government after Devendra Fadnavis resigned as Chief Minister and Ajit Pawar as his deputy, ahead of a trust vote ordered by the Supreme Court. Mr Thackeray and his wife Rashmi met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari this morning....

Former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Girinath Singh on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Cricketer-turned-politician and suspended BJP lawmaker Kirti Azad, who joined the Congress on Monday, attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making false promises and said there was no internal democracy within the BJP. He also said joining congress was his "ghar wapsi" and he felt like a "political orphan" in the BJP.

Ninety-six Christians belonging to 23 tribal families were converted to Hinduism in Tripura on Sunday, right-wing group Hindu Jagran Manch has claimed. The people were mostly labourers from Jharkhand and Bihar who had been forcibly converted in the past, says the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), which apparently oversaw the mass conversion at Unakoti, ...

The Shiv Sena has come out in support of the Modi government over the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), but asked whether the centre has the courage to ensure the "ghar wapsi" of displaced Kashmiri pandits.

Hadiya, the young woman from Kerala who converted to Islam and was known as Akhila Ashokan, hours after telling reporters at Cochin airport on Saturday that "I have not been forcefully converted", refused to speak to media, claiming that the police have asked her to do so.

Akhila Ashokan, the young woman from Kerala who converted to Islam and calls herself Hadiya now, left her Kottayam home under heavy security for Cochin airport on today, from where she will take a flight to New Delhi as she is to appear in the Supreme Court on Monday.

BJP MP Kirodi Lal Meena has claimed that the Gurjar community in Rajasthan has made a "ghar wapsi (homecoming)" to the BJP as its "big leader" Sachin Pilot was betrayed by the Congress and not made the chief minister.

Rajib Banerjee, a minister in the Mamta Banerjee government who had left Trinamool Congress and the Bengal Assembly in January, dramatically clutching a photograph of the chief minister close to his heart, is back in the Trinamool Congress today.

The ghar wapsi, or homecoming, of Mukul Roy is part of the Trinamool Congress' strategy to strike while the iron is hot and demolish the BJP in Bengal, where it still has 18 Lok Sabha MPs, ahead of the 2024 election

An eighth round of talks between the centre and farmers protesting the agriculture laws was held on Friday but it failed to break a months-long deadlock between the two parties, who remain divided on repeal of the laws and legal guarantee for MSP

Taking a swipe at Sachin Pilot over his claim that he is not joining the BJP, senior Congress leader Kapil Sibal today asked what happens to his "ghar wapsi" and whether Rajasthan's dissident legislators are vacationing in Haryana under the "watchful eye" of the BJP.

Jyotiraditya Scindia is set to join the BJP after a stunning exit from the Congress, his party of 18 years, following months of disenchantment with his leadership. His aunt Yashodhara Raje Scindia, a BJP MLA, describes his move as "ghar wapsi" and says there were reasons for the younger Scindia to take such a big step, one that was taken decades ag...

Jyotiraditya Scindia's decision to quit the Congress was welcomed by aunt and Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA Yashodhara Raje, who praised Mr Scindia for a step "taken in (the) national interest" and called it a "ghar wapsi (homecoming)"

Shiv Sena on Thursday cast doubts over Raghubar Das-led BJP government's return to power in Jharkhand, as it stated that people there are not in the mood of their "ghar wapsi".

Uddhav Thackeray will be sworn in tomorrow at Mumbai's sprawling Shivaji Park as Chief Minister of a Shiv Sena-NCP-Congress government after Devendra Fadnavis resigned as Chief Minister and Ajit Pawar as his deputy, ahead of a trust vote ordered by the Supreme Court. Mr Thackeray and his wife Rashmi met Governor Bhagat Singh Koshiyari this morning....

Former Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Girinath Singh on Thursday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Union Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Cricketer-turned-politician and suspended BJP lawmaker Kirti Azad, who joined the Congress on Monday, attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for making false promises and said there was no internal democracy within the BJP. He also said joining congress was his "ghar wapsi" and he felt like a "political orphan" in the BJP.

Ninety-six Christians belonging to 23 tribal families were converted to Hinduism in Tripura on Sunday, right-wing group Hindu Jagran Manch has claimed. The people were mostly labourers from Jharkhand and Bihar who had been forcibly converted in the past, says the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), which apparently oversaw the mass conversion at Unakoti, ...

The Shiv Sena has come out in support of the Modi government over the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC), but asked whether the centre has the courage to ensure the "ghar wapsi" of displaced Kashmiri pandits.

Hadiya, the young woman from Kerala who converted to Islam and was known as Akhila Ashokan, hours after telling reporters at Cochin airport on Saturday that "I have not been forcefully converted", refused to speak to media, claiming that the police have asked her to do so.

Akhila Ashokan, the young woman from Kerala who converted to Islam and calls herself Hadiya now, left her Kottayam home under heavy security for Cochin airport on today, from where she will take a flight to New Delhi as she is to appear in the Supreme Court on Monday.