Ranjan Srivastava leads HT’s coverage from Bhopal. He has spent more than two decades in journalism in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, covering political and other affairs. For the past 16 years, he has been working in Madhya Pradesh.
Articles by Ranjan
No illiterate MPs, MLAs please
Has this minister lost her mental balance? At least she should be aware why public sector organisations are about to close down (because of quota, corruption, bad management and above political involvement)? I think we should do some changes in our law so that only a highly qualified person can stand for MP's or MLA's post. So these illiterate persons will be barred from entering such an admired place like Parliament and not take nonsensical decisions.
Published on May 26, 2006 05:09 PM IST
None | S Ranjan, Bangalore, India, Srs@sify.com
Janshakti workers begin spadework
THE BHARTIYA Janshakti appears to be in a fix over the party president Uma Bharti?s candidature in Bada Malehra bypolls. Despite the party?s keenness to see the sadhvi emerge as a national leader, it is desperate to undo the damage it suffered in Raibareilly and Budhni poll by-election debacles. Uma Bharti had resigned from the seat as an MLA recently after launching own political outfit.
Published on May 26, 2006 01:34 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
BJP rift buzz on CM?s yatra trail
The absence of top BJP leaders, particularly Arvind Bhadoria, in Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's post-victory vikas yatra in the Budhni assembly seat has left tongues wagging about a strain, if not a rift, in the party.
Published on May 19, 2006 01:38 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
Uma launched Yatra on VHP proposal
SONIA GANDHI'S landslide victory in Rae Bareli spurred the Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) to mull over a mass awareness drive to propagate the difference between Swadeshi and Videshi and, subsequently, Uma Bharti's Bharat Bachao Yatra was chalked out, according to Bharatiya Janshakti national general secretary Raghunandan Sharma.
Published on May 18, 2006 02:43 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
Now, BJP is back to by-election test
WHEN SONIA Gandhi's victory crackers have set Rae Bareli ablaze, the BJP spotlight is back on the Vidisha Lok Sabha seat which will go to by-election sooner or later. Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan resigned the seat after his election from the Budhni constituency.
Published on May 12, 2006 03:12 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
Delhi grapples with heat, water woes
A fact that rankles many in scorching summer when taps turn out a trickle and water bodies across nation dry up.
Published on May 08, 2006 10:45 AM IST
None | Ranjana Narayan (IANS), New Delhi
Chouhan wins, BJP rues margin
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today won the Budhni by-election, defeating Congress candidate Raj Kumar Patel. But the victory margin ? 36,525 votes ? left the BJP camp subdued and fuming at the Election Commission?s tough stand on model code of conduct.
Published on May 07, 2006 03:14 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Sehore
Budhni beats the heat
SOARING MERCURY could not dampen the spirit of voters in the Budhni Assembly by-elction which registered around 60 per cent turnout today.
Published on May 04, 2006 02:02 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Budhni
Abhyankar croons love and longing in new album
Vocalist Sanjeev Abhyankar's latest offering, Tum Bin, is a treat for even those ignorant of the intricacies of Hindustani classical music.
Published on Apr 28, 2006 02:55 PM IST
None | Ranjana Narayan (Indo-Asian News Service), New Delhi
Code shadow over yatra
STRETCH of 60 kms in Sehore district on Bhopal-Indore Road unmistakably belongs to the Election Commission as L K Advani?s Bharat Suraksha Yatra must have realised today.
Published on Apr 28, 2006 02:12 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Indore
Opponents? campaign hurt me: Chouhan
LASHING OUT at the Congress for its complaints against him for violation of the model code of conduct, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan said the Central Government ministers Kantilal Bhuria and Suresh Pachauri had also canvassed in Budhni assembly constituency with fleets of vehicles.
Published on Apr 26, 2006 01:23 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Budhni
Chouhan deals power punch
BUDHNI WAS supposed to go to polls today. Instead, the assembly constituency saw Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan roll out a ?padyatra? to expose the Kaikayis and Manthras of the Congress, who stalled Lord Ram?s coronation.
Published on Apr 25, 2006 01:17 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Budhni
No flowers to welcome Advani
FLOWERS - A strict ?No?. Flower petals- ?Yes?. The State BJP has instructed its workers not to shower flowers on the ex-Bharatiya Janata Party national president LK Advani, not to say of coconut etc., while welcoming him during his Bharat Suraksha Yatra in the state.
Published on Apr 16, 2006 01:29 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
Shivraj does not want party bigwigs in Budhni
CHIEF MINISTER Shivraj Singh Chouhan considers the Budhni by-election too small for the party?s Central leaders to campaign in the constituency and, therefore, does not want any of them to come here. However, Sushma Swaraj would be visiting the constituency in the last leg of electioneering to strengthen the party?s position.
Published on Apr 14, 2006 01:04 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Budhni
?I never scolded him?
DEMURE, A little portly and Pallu in place - Sadhna Singh?s looks is an unmistakable Bhartiya Nari. But in campaigning for her husband, she is leaving no stone unturned.
Published on Apr 14, 2006 01:04 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
Chouhan files nomination
CHIEF MINISTER Shivraj Singh Chouhan today filed his nomination papers as the BJP nominee for the assembly by-election from Budhni in Sehore district, where polling is scheduled on April 24.
Published on Apr 05, 2006 01:41 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Sehore
Ministers out to appease Goddess of power
HEALTH MINISTER Ajay Vishnoi?s health may not suggest so but he has been keeping off food-grains for months from April 1 every year for the last 15 years. He says it is not part of any spiritual ritual. Last year he shunned grains for 100 days at a stretch.
Published on Apr 04, 2006 12:47 AM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
Uma sings, Shejwar dances the tango
The humdrum of politics took a pause. The air was filled with melody as a musical evening was unspooled at the B-2 Civil Lines bungalow today. Its occupant Uma Bharti, forgetting for a moment the fiery script of the Janadesh rally at Delhi, sang a few film songs. And her lieutenant Dr Gaurishankar Shejwar danced the tango. Others soon joined the party.
Published on Mar 26, 2006 12:51 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
MLAs want and understand laptop now
HOW TIMES have changed. Seven-eight years back when there was talk of the Digvijay Singh government offering laptops to MLAs, the media was hugely sceptical.
Published on Mar 25, 2006 02:00 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
Foes in House, friends outside
CONGRESS MLA Ramniwas Rawat , who had broken his spectacles in the scuffle in the House , urgently needed to go to an optician for its repair. Imagine who offered him lift? None other than Jayant Mallayya, one of the ministers who had shoved the MLA away while trying to approach the Chief Minister?s chair !
Published on Mar 10, 2006 01:53 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
Daunting task ahead for Jatia
SITUATION COULD not have been more ironical for the BJP in the State. It has a chief minister with no experience in administration and now State president without much organisational experience.
Published on Feb 27, 2006 02:52 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
CM avoids Uma but Joshi talks to her
UMA BHARTI and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today attended same religious function at Jamunia village in Ichhawar Assembly segment with a difference of a few hours, obviously to avoid facing each other. They had gone to the village on invitation of former minister and MLA Karan Singh Verma.
Published on Feb 27, 2006 01:16 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
Hunt gone awry
A local police party killed a Congressman who was helping them track down a bear, reports Priya Ranjan Sahu.
Updated on Feb 16, 2006 05:09 PM IST
None | Priya Ranjan Sahu, Sambalpur
BJP in quandary over State president
THE BJP is in a quandary over successor of Shivraj Singh Chouhan on the post of State president. Soon after Chouhan took over as chief minister, it was expected that he would relinquish the State president?s post like Sushil Kumar Modi did in Bihar after being sworn in as deputy chief minister.
Published on Feb 03, 2006 04:01 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
CM showers sops in Uma bastion
WITHOUT EVEN once mentioning Uma Bharti?s name, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today made it loud and clear to the people of Bundelkhand that he rather than the expelled BJP leader could take care of the peoples? developmental aspirations better.
Published on Jan 28, 2006 11:54 AM IST
None | Ranjan, Sagar
New BJP chief by month-end
NOMINATION OF Shivraj Singh Chouhan?s successor on the post of State BJP president has been deferred till month end. Earlier, Chief Minister Chouhan was expected to be relieved of his duel responsibility following his return from New Delhi where he had gone to attend the BJP?s national council meet.
Published on Jan 23, 2006 02:33 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
Ministers want more powers in districts
?GIVE US more powers in the districts? was the demand from certain ministers at the dinner hosted by Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan for his Cabinet colleagues at Kerwa Guesthouse tonight. Some other ministers expressed concern over the conduct of a section of the party MLAs.
Published on Jan 18, 2006 12:50 PM IST
None | Ranjan, Bhopal
Shivraj on Uma footprints with a different mission
CHIEF MINISTER Shivraj Singh Chouhan seems to have decided to undertake the same route Uma Bharti took in Madhya Pradesh during her ongoing Ram-Roti Padyatra.
Published on Jan 10, 2006 12:55 PM IST
PTI | Ranjan, Bhopal
New panels soon for development: CM
CHIEF MINISTER Shivraj Singh Chouhan today announced here setting up of a three-tier Deendayal Antyoday committees at the village, block and district levels to ensure effective implementation of the development schemes up to the grassroots level.
Updated on Jan 09, 2006 04:39 PM IST
PTI | Ranjan, Raisen
Gujarat minister shies away from Sanjay Joshi episode
GUJARAT MINISTER for Education, Woman and Child Welfare, Sports, Youth and Cultural Affairs Anandiben Mafatbhai Patel tonight curtly brushed away queries on the Sanjay Joshi CD episode.
Published on Jan 04, 2006 02:34 PM IST
PTI | Ranjan, Bhopal
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