Politics

Karnataka Congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao expressed his confidence about the party's victory in all the 15 places where the byelections would take place on December 5.

The BJP on Sunday announced that it would not form government in Maharashtra in view of the ally Shiv Sena's stand to not join them in the efforts.

The M K Stalin-led DMK, which has all along been critical of the Centre's action on the Jammu and Kashmir issue here, demanded that the Centre 'respect the sensitivities of the people.'

According to state BJP sources, it was the Ram Mandir issue in early nineties that had helped the saffron party, for the first time in Bengal, to bag around 16 per cent votes.

The meeting comes after JUTA expressed their disenchantment over the state government’s decision to apply the revised UGC pay scale from January 1, 2020, against 2016.

Former Indian cricketer-turned-politician thanked the former Pakistani cricket captain for taking the bold step to build the Kartarpur corridor 'without looking at gains or losses'.

The dispute between the two allies took turn for worse on Friday with caretaker chief minister Devendra Fadnavis and Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray criticising each other of the issue of rotational chief ministership.

The inauguration of Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF) is scheduled to take place on Friday evening and would be attended by prominent film personalities of the country.

The Shiv Sena has been maintaining that in February this year, before the Lok Sabha polls, it was decided that there will be equal sharing of posts and responsibilities between the party and the BJP.

Attacking the BJP government over the state of the economy, the Congress leader said those ruling the country are busy in themselves while people are suffering on every front.

The Congress leader has been attacking the prime minister and the BJP-led government on the issue of rising unemployment and slowdown in the economy.

The video of the purported incident, which occurred on November 5, has gone viral. In the clip, the MLA can be seen barging into the office of Damoh District Treasury Officer (DTO) Vivek Gharu and abusing him for not releasing the funds.

The minister, however, claimed that he has never been on a foreign trip, and asked as to on what basis, such 'baseless allegations' were being levelled against him.

Sources in the Sangh, the BJP’s ideological mentor, said the RSS would have liked Gadkari to take charge of the situation in Maharashtra but the Union minister is not interested in returning to state politics.

In the audio, he is purportedly saying that the MLAs, who were later disqualified, were kept in Mumbai during the final days of the coalition government under BJP national President Amit Shah's watch.

Sanjay Raut said he would meet the Maharashtra Governor in the next two days and request him to invite the single-largest party - the BJP - to form the government.