Politics

The Berhampur MP, who was with the Congress till April last year and also served as a central minister in the UPA-I government, was caught on camera slapping a former Youth Congress president of Gajapati district.

Attacking the Modi government, Sibal said it is adopting different ways to silence the opposition that includes the Income Tax scrutiny against Election Commissioner Ashok Lavasa's family and ED action against NCP leader Sharad Pawar.

Harishchancdra Srivastava, however, was not forthcoming about since when Chinmayanand has ceased to be the member of the BJP.

The saffron allies are locked in an intense negotiation on seat-sharing and a consensus has eluded them till now on how many constituencies each of them will contest.

The Shiv Sena has maintained that the seat-sharing formula was decided during the Lok Sabha elections, where the two parties had a pre-poll alliance.

Fadnavis' remarks come a day after Sena president Uddhav Thackeray asserted that both the parties will contest the elections in alliance, and that an announcement on the seat sharing formula will be made in a few days.

The NCP chief said he was witnessing anger about the state government before the next month's assembly polls.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, however, asserted that his state has no surplus water, and expressed concern over the water crisis faced by states amid their depleting ground water and sought cooperation among them for conserving it.

Naidu further said that Reddy should sit silent if he doesn’t understand the technical issues of the project.

CPI(M) politburo member Mohammed Salim alleged that the BJP and the RSS are trying to vitiate the atmosphere of the state.

UP CM's statement came in context to his remark during 2019 Lok Sabha polls when he had stirred a controversy with his Ali vs Bajrangbali speech. Adityanath was soon barred from campaigning for 72 hours by the EC.

The Trinamool Congress chief met Amit Shah at his office at the North Block, a day after she met Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday evening.

Shivpal, the younger brother of SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav, had floated his own political outfit — Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (PSP) — last year after alleging that he was not getting ‘due respect’ in the party.

Naidu has raised doubts over the cause of death stated by the government and claimed that the Jagan Mohan Reddy-led YSRCP is misleading the people by saying that Kodela died because of harassment by his son and daughter.

Minister KT Rama Rao, who moved the resolution, said the Nallamala forest is home to the 'Chenchu' people and also rich biodiversity, including animals like tigers and Nilgai and rare varieties of plants.

Till date, the Congress has declared 10 out of 12 candidates for the bypolls, whereas nominations have already been filed for Hamirpur seat.