Bollywood actor Isha Koppikar on Sunday joined the BJP at a party event in Mumbai. Welcomed into the party by Union minister Nitin Gadkari, who was present on the occasion, she has been appointed as the working president of the BJP’s women transport wing. Koppikar's appointment comes a day after BJP leader Kailash Vijayvargiya took a jibe at Congress saying, "they want to contest the coming elections by banking on chocolatey faces."

Election strategist Prashant Kishor has categorically denied reports that he accepted an offer from MP Congress to handle its campaign for the 24 assembly seats where by-elections need to be held. Most of the seats fell vacant when the loyalists of Jyotiraditya Scindia quit after the senior leader switched to the BJP. Kishor told NDTV that former MP CM Kamal Nath and Punjab CM Captain Amarinder Singh approached him to take over the campaign for next assembly elections. "But I have not accepted and I'm not inclined to take Congress party work in bits and pieces," Kishor said. he told NDTV.

The Enforcement Directorate has filed the chargesheet against former union minister P Chidambaram, his son Karti Chidambaram and others in connection with the INX Media money laundering case. Earlier, the CBI had charged Chidambaram and others with allegedly receiving ₹10 lakh as bribe for clearing foreign investment for INX Media. The ED has alleged that in 2007, Chidambaram as FM, had facilitated a huge transfusion of foreign funds to INX Media, then owned by former media baron Peter Mukerjea and his wife Indrani Mukerjea. His son Karti Chidambaram allegedly had received kickbacks for the deal.

Aadesh&nbsp;Kumar Gupta has been appointed as the new President of the BJP's&nbsp;Delhi unit. He replaces&nbsp;Manoj Tiwari as Delhi BJP chief.&nbsp;Gupta is the former mayor of NDMC, and presently the Councillor in North Corporation from Delhi's West Patel Nagar ward.&nbsp;Former Union minister and Lok Sabha&nbsp;MP from Raigarh,&nbsp;Vishnu Deo Sai,&nbsp;has been appointed the president of Chhattisgarh BJP.

As Uttar Pradesh struggles to curb the spread of coronavirus, a political battle erupted over the 'absence' of Amethi MP Smriti Irani, with 'missing' posters of the BJP leader spotted in the constituency. The posters read, &ldquo;Question for the missing MP. You have been to Amethi for two days in the last one year and that too for few hours, the people of Amethi are bearing the brunt of coronavirus, ...we have seen you playing Antakshari on Twitter. Leaving the people of Amethi in such hard times shows how far Amethi is for you. They ask will you come to Amethi only for last rites?" The images of these posters were tweeted by the All India Mahila Congress. Hitting back, Smriti Irani asked where is Sonia Gandhi, Congress' Rae Bareli MP. She tweeted saying, "I have a complete account of my 8 months 10 times and 14 days, but how many times did Sonia Ji visit her constituency?"

As the global rating agency,&nbsp;Moody's Investor Service downgraded India's sovereign&nbsp;rating to the lowest investment grade, opposition leader Rahul&nbsp;Gandhi took to twitter and said the worst is yet to come. "Moody's has rated Modi's handling of India's economy a step above JUNK. Lack of support to the poor and the MSME sector means the worst is yet to come," he wrote in a tweet.&nbsp;
Moody's had said&nbsp;that slow reform momentum and constrained policy effectiveness have contributed to a prolonged period of slow growth, compared to India's potential&nbsp;and it expected this to continue well beyond the pandemic.

The BJP will sound the poll bugle in Bihar next week with a &lsquo;virtual rally&rsquo; by Union home minister Amit Shah on June 9. Shah will address the people of the state through video conference and Facebook live. BJP state leaders said the party has set a target of roping in &ldquo;at least one lakh people across the 243 assembly segments in Bihar&rdquo; for the video conference. Meanwhile, opposition RJD slammed the BJP's planned digital campaign with Tejashwi Yadav asking the ruling party to apologise to people for imposing sufferings on them during the lockdown.

With Monsoon session of Parliament approaching, Rajya Sabha Chairman Venkaiah Naidu and Lok Sabha Speaker OM Birla discussed the modalities of holding the session amid the coronavirus pandemic. One of the ideas explored was the possibility of a "virtual parliament", reports said. Both Naidu and Birla reportedly favoured e-Parliament as a long term option. Officials of both the Houses have also been asked to examine the feasibility of using the Central Hall of Parliament for meetings of the Lok Sabha for the monsoon session. The Rajya Sabha can shift to the chamber of Lok Sabha and the sittings of the two Houses can be held on alternate days, reports said.

Elections to fill 18 vacancies in the Rajya Sabha will be held on June 19, according to reports. The Election Commission, which had earlier deferred the elections scheduled for March 26, gave its nod for filling the 18 seats. Polling will be conducted for filling four seats each in Andhra Pradesh and Gujarat, three seats each in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, two seats in Jharkhand, and one seat each in Manipur and Meghalaya. The counting of votes will be conducted on the same day.

BJP MP&nbsp;Nishikant&nbsp;Dubey has urged Prime Minister Narendra Modi to take immediate action against global rating agencies Moody's, Fitch and S&amp;P, alleging that they are "trying to&nbsp;destabilise" India's economy as part of a &lsquo;Chinese conspiracy&rsquo;.&nbsp;Though these rating agencies are based in the US, "China has invested in these firms for its strategic interest", he said in a letter to the prime minister on May 31. The MP said&nbsp;these rating agencies act and behave like God and treat our country as a third-grade country.&nbsp;Incidentally, Moody's on Monday downgraded India's sovereign rating to 'Baa3' from 'Baa2'.&nbsp;

After the Union Cabinet decided to widen the definition of micro, small and medium enterprises and announced that entities with turnover up to ₹250 crore or investment up to ₹50 crore would qualify as medium enterprises, the Congress, on Monday, termed it as the "headline management by the government". Reacting to the decision, former Union Minister Jairam Ramesh tweeted&nbsp;first, PM announces that FM will announce package. Second, FM announces package. Third, Gadkari regurgitates what PM and FM have said.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Rashtriya&nbsp;Janata Dal chief&nbsp;Lalu&nbsp;Prasad, who is currently in jail after being convicted in Fodder scam, is also constantly targeting the Nitish Kumar government and its regime in his own style on social media.&nbsp;On Monday, a tweet from his account gave 18 names to the Nitish regime and appealed to the public to remove this government in the next election. The Assembly elections are expected in Bihar this year and almost every political party is gearing up for this.&nbsp;Presently,&nbsp;Lalu&nbsp;is admitted in the Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi. But he is continuously targeting the state government through Twitter.&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;

Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat and other ministers who attended a cabinet meeting on May 29 have been placed under home quarantine, after one of their colleagues tested positive for coronavirus, news agency ANI reported. The Uttarakhand minister who tested positive is admitted to AIIMS in Rishikesh, along with his five family members. The samples of 41 people who were living at the minister's house have been collected and sent for Covid-19 testing.

Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi has alleged that&nbsp;Shramik&nbsp;special trains were being ignored by the railways due to which 40 per cent were running late and many lost their way and 80 passengers died. She said the Railway Ministry says weak people should not travel, which is shocking. Nearly 75 per cent of the&nbsp;special&nbsp;trains headed to UP and Bihar, and the rest to eastern India.&nbsp;

The Delhi government has sought an immediate assistance of ₹5,000 crore from the Centre to pay salaries to its employees and meet its expenses as revenues have dried up during the lockdown. Deputy CM&nbsp;Manish Sisodia, who also holds the finance portfolio, said he has written to Union finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman for help, adding that the Delhi government has not received the fund sanctioned to states under the Disaster Relief Fund. Sisodia&nbsp;said&nbsp;the state govt needs ₹7,000 crore for two months and the first item of priority is to pay pending salaries. Due to the lockdown,&nbsp;the tax collection of the Delhi government is running low at about 85%.

A Delhi court on Saturday granted interim bail to former Congress Municipal&nbsp;Councillor&nbsp;Ishrat Jahan, for ten days to enable her to get married. She was arrested in a northeast Delhi violence case.&nbsp;Jahan had moved the court seeking interim bail for 30 days to get married on June 12. The plea stated that she would not tamper with evidence or influence the witnesses if granted bail. She was charged under the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act in a case related to communal riots in northeast area in the national capital in February, which had left at least 53 people dead and 200 injured.

After&nbsp;several &lsquo;missing&rsquo; posters of Bhopal Lok Sabha MP Pragya Singh Thakur appeared&nbsp;in&nbsp;different parts of the Madhya Pradesh capital,&nbsp;the BJP has said the terror accused politician was in hospital for&nbsp;for&nbsp;cancer&nbsp;and eye treatment.&nbsp;The anonymous posters&nbsp;had&nbsp;said the BJP MP was missing even as the city was reeling under the&nbsp;coronavirus&nbsp;outbreak.&nbsp;The posters emerged, as&nbsp;Thakur launched a mobile hospital service on video call and the&nbsp;organisers&nbsp;claimed Thakur&nbsp;was not missing but in a hospital in Delhi.&nbsp;

The Congress on Saturday attacked Modi govt 2.0 on its first anniversary saying the govt is the memorial of its own failures. The party stated that the govt has caused alarming political, social and economic disturbance in the country. Maintaining that the govt has no real achievements show, the Congress said that propaganda and distractions are the mainstay of the central govt.
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Even as Delhi has seen a spike in coronavirus cases, chief minister Arvind Kejriwal assured people that the govt is "4 steps ahead of coronavirus". Insisting that the&nbsp;Delhi govt is prepared to deal with the rising cases, the chief minister pitched for lifting of the lockdown. "A permanent lockdown is no solution. Life has to carry on with coronavirus with all the precautions," Kejriwal said.&nbsp;

In his letter to the nation on the first anniversary of his govt's second tenure, PM Modi has said that India will set an example in the revival of its economy that has been battered by the coronavirus pandemic. Continuing with his call of Atmnirbhar Bharat, the PM has expressed confidence that "Indian workers will create products that will reduce India's dependence on imports and will move towards self-reliance". He has hoped that India will be an inspiration for the world in terms of economic revival in times of coronavirus.

On the first anniversary of his second tenure, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written a letter to the nation in which he has highlighted his government's achievements, his economic vision for the country and the challenges ahead. Referring to the humanitarian crisis triggered by the coronavirus pandemic, PM Modi has assured that his government is working "in a united and determined way" to mitigate the suffering especially of daily-wage workers and migrant labourers most of whom have lost their livelihood because of the nationwide lockdown.

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