Politics

BJP General Secretary P Muralidhar Rao, who is in-charge of party affairs in Karnataka, said the coalition has lost the people's mandate, adding MLAs from various parties in the State do not want mid-term polls.

The Delhi CM, who had skipped the all-party meeting called by the Prime Minister two days back, also assured full cooperation of his government to the Centre.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee directed senior police officers to take stringent action against those involved in the incident 'irrespective of their political colour', sources in the state government said.

HD Kumaraswamy had claimed recently that one of the JD(S) MLAs had received a call from a BJP leader, saying the government's fall was imminent and if agreed to switch sides, he would dispatch Rs 10 crores at his location.

Rahul Gandhi, the Congress president who turned 49 on Wednesday, was showered with warm wishes by politicians across the country.

Noapara MLA Sunil Singh is a relative of MP Arjun Singh, who switched over from the TMC to the BJP just ahead of the recent Lok Sabha polls and won the Barrackpore seat.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired the meeting, attended by representatives of all parties, including Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad, National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah and TMC leader Derek O'Brien.

This was the third expansion of the state cabinet and no new woman leader was inducted. There are two women ministers — Pankaja Munde and Vidya Thakur — in the BJP-Sena coalition government in Maharashtra.

Along with senior party leader Ahmad Hasan, the Samajwadi Party chief gave a memorandum to Governor Ram Naik and sought his intervention to check the deteriorating law and order situation in the state.

After the meeting, BJP state vice president Jay Prakash Majumdar said the governor gave some suggestions, but the TMC's representative said he needs to consult the party.

The demand sprung up at a key feedback meeting in Raebareli on Wednesday in the presence of AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi and other senior leaders.

After Shah was nominated to the Union cabinet, it is widely expected that the BJP will have a new president.

If needed, an independent agency's help would also be sought to prepare a fact-finding report, said Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) President Mullapally Ramachandran.

The Congress has alleged that they have been lured into joining the TRS, and has approached the High Court challenging their 'merger' with the TRS Legislature Party.

A popular figure in Indore, Vijayvargiya’s popularity has grown significantly after he helped his party make deep inroads in West Bengal governed by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee.

Sharad Pawar addressing NCP workers said it needed to be figured out what transpired after a voter pressed the button against the name of a candidate of his choice and it got reflected on the VVPAT.