Politics

Deputy Chief Minister Chandrakant Kavlekar was allotted departments of Town and Country Planning, Agriculture, Archives and Archeology and Factories and Boilers.

Following the murder, local lawyers blocked traffic near collectorate gate and demanded immediate arrest of the murderers.

BJP workers and locals had ransacked the residence of Jejur village Trinamool Congress deputy sarpanch Gopal Chakraborty on Friday night, demanding return of 'cut money' allegedly sought for MGNREGA work, police said.

Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said he had approached the central leadership with a factual position that the BJP enjoys full majority with 27 MLAs by its side in the House of 40.

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray has also decided to meet Prime Minister Naredndra Modi to seek a special session in the Parliament to highlight farmers’ issues.

These meetings have been planned so that BJP MPs from both the houses get an opportunity to directly interact with the prime minister, who can guide them and discuss various issues.

Pradesh BJP president Ajay Bhatt and the incharge of the party affairs in Uttarakhand, Shyam Jaju, reacted sharply to Champion's conduct, saying indiscipline could not be tolerated.

The resignation of 16 Congress-JD(S) MLAs has pushed the 13-month old coalition government to the brink of collapse. Krishna Byre Gowda claimed that this was the sixth or seventh attempt by the BJP to destabilise the government.

The BJP-led government currently enjoys the support of three GFP MLAs, all of whom are ministers, and three Independents, of whom two are ministers.

Insisting they were still in Congress and have resigned only from the Assembly, the disgruntled Congress MLAs ruled out BJP's role in the entire episode.

Elections to 12 assembly is scheduled to take place in the state as many BJP MLAs who successfully contested Lok Sabha elections were elevated to the Parliament.

There was high drama in Mumbai where the police detained Congress troubleshooter DK Shivakumar, who was forced to camp outside a five-star hotel for several hours and not allowed to meet the rebel MLAs inside the facility.

Finance Minister Tarun Bhanot presented a budget of Rs 2,33,605 crore with an expected fiscal deficit of 3.34% and revenue surplus of Rs 732 crore.

The number of front row seats a party gets in the Lok Sabha depends on its strength in the House.

Stating that he had first proposed the tie-up to Congress leaders in the state before taking it up with the senior party leader, the MNS chief said his courtesy call to Gandhi was made with the upcoming Assembly elections in mind.

The decision comes after Congress won just two of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in West Bengal, down from four it had won in the 2014 election.