Politics

Shah said the state was in disarray when the BJP won the UP Assembly election but the Yogi Adityanath government has within three months fulfilled promises.

Rahul Gandhi, whose Congress Party was part of the Grand Alliance in Bihar that was deserted by Nitish Kumar's JD(U) on Wednesday evening, said that he was aware that it was being planned for the last three-four months.

The sudden debate over the birth of a new religion has rattled the Opposition BJP, that is headed by a Lingayat strongman B S Yeddyurappa himself, and boasts of a large number of MLAs and MPs from the community.

When asked about the alleged exit of MLA V C Arukutty from the OPS camp, M Thambidurai said it could be his own decision and there was no compulsion from anyone that he should leave the faction.

Bihar JD(U)'s chief spokesman Sanjay Singh on Friday criticised Abdul Bari Siddiqui, a minister in the Grand Alliance government, after the latter had on Friday dismissed any possibility of Deputy Chief Minister Tejaswi Yadav's resignation over the CBI FI...

Breaking rank, Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and his brother Shivpal Yadav are supporting Kovind, defying former chief minister and de facto party chief Akhilesh Yadav who had declared support for Meira Kumar.

NDA candidate Ram Nath Kovind started his campaign from Mumbai and followed it up with a visit to Panaji and Gandhinagar.

Noting that the BJP is used to "spreading lies for political gains", Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Thursday said BJP has made people's life difficult with demonetisation and GST implementation.

Mishra is the state parliamentary affairs minister and will play a big role in the upcoming polling for the Presidential elections.

The opposition Left Front and Congress on Tuesday demanded immediate deployment of the army to control the situation at Baduria in North 24 Parganas district where communal clashes have broken out over an "objectionable" post on Facebook.

The Goa Congress attacked the BJP for holding a public meeting of party president Amit Shah at the airport complex here on Saturday saying it was a "gross abuse of power".

BJP President Amit Shah on Saturday came down heavily on those raising questions over the current spate of lynchings, saying "there were lynchings in 2011, 2012, 2013 as well, but nobody posed a question".

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi today termed as "mere lip service" the prime minister's statement against violence in the name of cow protection and said the BJP and Sangh-affiliated outfits have put a lower premium on human life.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi has accepted the resignation of the party's Goa unit chief Luizinho Faleiro who stepped down from the post last week, senior leader Chandrakant Kavlekar said in Panaji on Wednesday.

Opposition presidential candidate Meira Kumar on Tuesday said she would contest the polls on the plank of democratic values, inclusiveness, social justice and destruction of caste structure.

The Congress and Left parties on Monday remained non-committal about their participation in a special meeting at the Central Hall of Parliament on June 30 to roll out the Goods and Services Tax (GST).