Politics

It would have been better if the BJP gave tickets to Muslims for the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi on Monday said.

Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Saturday admitted that ruling BJP failed to take the positives of demonetisation to the masses fully.

In districts affected by storm, it has been planned to plant 50,000 saplings in private and government lands and 2.2 lakh saplings in reserve forests.

With Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections throwing no clear winner as BJP has won 82 seats and Shiv Sena 84, a senior BJP leader on Thursday said both the parties should join hands in Mumbai.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation election has thrown up a result on Thursday few could have predicted. Here are reasons why Mumbai voted the way it did:

In Maharashtra urban body polls, BJP and Shiv Sena have appropriated between themselves both treasury and opposition space leaving very little for the others.

Meanwhile, BJP leader Vinod Tawde said his party has emerged as the overall leader in elections to 10 municipal corporations and 25 Zilla Parishad held recently.

Parag Shah of the Bhartiya Janta Party declared assets worth Rs 690 crore. That makes him the richest contesting candidate in the elections to the richest civic body in India. He has won the contest in ward No. 132 to become a corporator in the Brihanmumb...

To a query by reporters at the Airport here, Stalin claimed that his party's state-wide hunger strike yesterday was "so successful that the AIADMK is claiming that we are trying to topple their government."

Voter turnout for Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation was 67%.

Meanwhile, Old city areas came to a standstill on Tuesday night after thousands of Congress workers reached airport to greet party leaders Kamal Nath, Digvijay Singh, Jyotiraditya Scindia, Suresh Pachauri and Vivek Tankha who landed in Bhopal.

A local AIADMK MLA on Sunday alleged he was receiving threat calls over phone for voting in favour of Edappadi K Palaniswami government in the Assembly.

A day after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal donated Rs 50,000 to rights activist Irom Sharila's party which is fighting Manipur elections, Aam Aadmi Party Sangrur MP Bhagwant Mann followed suit and donated his one-month salary.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday cast his vote in the third phase of the state assembly election.

A total of 189 crorepati candidates are in fray for the fourth phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections to be held on February 23, while 116 have declared criminal cases against themselves, as per a latest report.

Hours after the SC ordered registration of an FIR against Uttar Pradesh minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati in a case of alleged gangrape and sexual harassment, the senior SP leader saw in it a "political conspiracy".