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He criticised the Modi government over the issue of loan waiver to industrialists, implementation of GST and MGNREGA and Ayushman Bharat health insurance scheme.

About 93 lakh members of self-help groups would benefit from the new scheme, which would cost the government Rs 9,400 crore.

Maharashtra has 48 Lok Sabha seats, the second highest after Uttar Pradesh (80), and a 288-member assembly. Assembly polls in Maharashtra are due in the second half of 2019.

On Wednesday, Rahul Gandhi appointed Priyanka Gandhi as the general secretary in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, marking her formal induction into the Congress.

Political observers say that Ahmed Patel had left electoral politics way back in 1993 but his name invariably crops up during polls.

Though seven to eight Scindia loyalists have been accommodated in the Kamal Nath cabinet, it is widely believed that it is Kamal Nath-Digvijaya Singh combo that is calling all the shots in MP now.

In a surprise move ahead of the general elections, Congress president Rahul Gandhi named Priyanka as the AICC General Secretary for Uttar Pradesh East, which puts her in direct contest with UP CM Yogi Adityanath and PM Narendra Modi.

Priyanka Gandhi finally took the political plunge on Tuesday after years of speculation with Congress announcing her appointment as the general secretary of AICC.

The Congress is in talks with former BJP MP from Purnia, Uday Singh, who had quit the party five days ago and given hints that he may join the grand alliance in Bihar.

The main accused, Azim Khan (21), and two school teachers, who allegedly helped Khan in committing the offence, were arrested after the incident that took place on Sunday, Chhapiheda police station in-charge Sangita Solanki said.

The AIMIM also took a jibe at the electoral alliance between BSP supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, alleging that both parties consider Muslim leadership to be “untouchable” and that the community has “suffered” under both their ru...

The party will fight Lok Sabha polls in four states - Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Goa. But the party decided against contesting in Maharashtra but remains open to fielding for a few seats.

The BJP leader said only BJP, under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is working to eradicate poverty.

Denying the reports, Congress leader and minister D K Shivakumar said Siddaramaiah has not been gifted Mercedes-Benz car by Suresh, but it had been given for his travelling purposes.

During her address at an event here, Sitharaman said ever since the Modi government came to power, there was a conscious effort to keep middlemen at bay from the corridors of the defence ministry.

Tejashwi lauded Banerjee for bringing leaders of various parties on one platform and urged all the leaders to keep standing together to oust the BJP government from power.