Politics

This election will be a battle for MLA Somnath Bharti to prove his mettle in the polls as the BJP and Congress are all geared up to give a tough fight to the two-time sitting MLA.

There appears to be no unanimity over the issue of leadership and chief ministerial face among the five constituents of the opposition coalition even though they will have to face a towering and Machiavellian rival in CM Nitish Kumar, who is backed quite...

Fadnavis also questioned if (at that time) it was the beginning of "criminalisation of politics" in the state, and if the Congress "supported" those who attacked Mumbai.

The Leader of the Opposition and TDP chief said he would permanently quit politics if the YSR Congress won a fresh mandate.

The controversial preacher had recently made a claim that a representative of the Modi government had approached him in Malaysia in September last year, and offered him safe passage to India in return for his support for the Centre's decision to revoke J&...

The Aam Aadmi Party did not inform the dropped MLAs about this in advance. However, not all are turning rebel.

In 2015, Adarsh Shastri defeated BJP's Pradyumn Rajpoot by a huge margin of 39,366 votes. But after being assured of a ticket till a week back, the Shastri descendant was shown the door, leaving him sulking.

The TMC also supremo criticised the BJP for not allowing her party's delegation to enter Uttar Pradesh during anti-CAA protests, Guhawati during anti-NRC protests and Delhi's JNU campus and said she "even extends courtesy to enemies".

Electors can use smartphones at polling stations in 11 assembly constituencies for accessing QR codes from the voters' helpline app in case they do not bring voters' slip to the booth.

MLA Aseem Ahmed Khan has been dropped to accommodate Shoaib Iqbal, who recently joined AAP from Congress. Sources said the party has been looking for a prominent face to woo the Muslim population.

Talking to reporters, nodal officer Nalin Chauhan said 84 FIRs have far been registered under the Arms Act. He said that over 3.76 lakh hoardings, banners and posters have been removed from across the city.

Dilip Ghosh said Babul Supryo's statement is unfortunate as it is the party's stand to deal strictly with trouble-makers in Uttar Pradesh and other BJP-ruled states and the same would be applicable when the BJP comes to power in Bengal.

A month ago, the protests against the amended Citizenship law had turned violent with certain groups indulging in arson and clashing with police. The large-scale vandalism killed nearly 19 in the state.

In a series of tweets, senior Congress leader urged PM Narendra Modi to select five critics and have a televised question and answer session on CAA so that people can draw their own conclusions on the issue.

Claiming that the BJP is insulting the people of Delhi who are the beneficiaries of the AAP government's 'pro-people policies' by calling them 'freeloaders', Manish Sisodia said BJP should apologise to the people of Delhi.

Party insiders claimed that CM Mamata Banerjee is likely to meet PM Modi on the first day of his visit. Though, the agenda of the meeting is not yet known but Banerjee is likely to discuss issues related to NRC and CAA.