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It was learnt the letter also had a morphed picture of the Trinamool Congress supremo and was signed by one ‘Rajveer Killa’. It had a mobile number as well.

During a debate on the channel on June 6, a woman had allegedly made defamatory statements against Adityanath, the police said.

West Bengal Congress Chief Soumen Mitra further said that Banerjee who had been poaching leaders of the opposition was now facing difficulty to protect her own existence, hinting at an exodus of the TMC leaders to the BJP.

Rahul Gandhi said Narendra Modi might have rich friends with him but the Congress party will continue to fight against the intolerance created by the BJP.

Thousands of party workers and leaders were at the airport to receive Rahul Gandhi, who is attending a public function for the first time after the party's drubbing in the general elections.

The party had asked its president Amit Shah, whose three-year term ended earlier this year, to continue so as to allow him and the organisation to focus on the general election.

Condemning the killing, BJP Telangana state president K Laxman Thursday alleged that TRS was resorting to 'murder politics' unable to digest BJPs growth in the state.

Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray and all the 18 Lok Sabha MPs of the party will visit Ayodhya next week, before the start of the Parliament's session.

Even though five Dalit BJP candidates had won the Lok Sabha elections from the state, not a single one got representation in the Union cabinet, he said.

The ruling NDA inflicted a body blow to the five-party grand alliance in the state, winning all but one out of the 40 seats.

Revenue minister and BJP leader Chandrakant Patil had said a few days ago that of the 288 assembly seats, the BJP and the Sena would contest 135 each, leaving 18 seats for others.

The Congress leader of Maharashtra submitted his resignation as an MLA to Assembly Speaker Haribhau Bagade at his office here, an official said.

The Bharipa Bahujan Mahasangh leader also confirmed that the VBA would contest all the 288 seats in the assembly polls, due in September-October this year.

The singer-turned-politician did not mince his words in saying that the Congress party’s organisation was absent on the ground and was only visible on paper.

The party supremo removed the in-charges of party units across the six states of Uttarakhand, Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, Gujarat and Rajasthan along with three the state presidents of Delhi and Madhya Pradesh.

BJP MP from Odisha Pratap Sarangi talks to News18 about his plan of action as the Minister of State in the Ministry of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises and the Ministry of Animal Husbandry.