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Though Congress leaders on Wednesday were unable to reach a consensus on whether to go for a cabinet expansion by filling the three vacant posts or a reshuffle by asking a few ministers to step down and make way for the disgruntled lawmakers, CLP leader S...

The CPP is currently chaired by Sonia Gandhi and all 52 Lok Sabha MPs will be present at the meeting, besides its members in the Rajya Sabha

In his letter to the CM, Gandhi said that after speaking to Kumar's wife, he learnt that the farmer was under severe stress due to his inability to repay loans and that forced him to commit suicide.

In 2014 general elections, Singh had defeated Congress stalwart Ghulam Nabi Azad by a margin of about 6%. In the 2019 polls, he retained the Udhampur seat crossing his previous vote share.

Dhotre Sanjay Shamrao was also member of the 16th Lok Sabha from the same Akola seat. He had earlier won the seat from 2004 to 2014.

Advocate R Arunadhri Iyer, representing Raghav Chadha, told the court that his instruction was to withdraw the petition and that the petitioner be granted liberty to file an election petition.

Chief Ministers of Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Tripura and Meghalaya attended the function.

KT Rama Rao also said that the regional parties together managed to bag more votes than the Congress.

Voices of dissent are gaining ground within the Congress as two of its MLAs met former Karnataka chief minister S M Krishna at his Bengaluru residence on Sunday.

Not only has the BJP managed to wrest 18 Lok Sabha seats from the ruling TMC, it has also done well 51 out of 144 wards under the Kolkata Municipal Corporation.

Narendra Modi said that the 2019 results show that beyond arithmetic there is chemistry and this time chemistry has triumphed over arithmetic.

This is the third incident of alleged hate crime reported in the last week.

The BJP-led NDA coalition made massive gains in the Hindi heartland, and virtually decimated the Opposition’s caste-based alliances in UP and Bihar, where it triumphed over 103 of the total 120 seats.

The BJP won a massive 303 seats and the Congress tally ended at 52 seats in the Lok Sabha polls, results to which were declared on May 23.

Modi said his government’s aim would be to ensure that citizens are brought to the forefront of the campaign to set the country on the path of development.

Confirming the development, Assembly Speaker Vijay Kumar Chaudhary and legislative council deputy chairman Haroon Rashid said letters to this effect have been forwarded by two RLSP MLAs-- Lalan Paswan and Sudhanshu Shekhar-- and MLC Sanjiv Singh Shyam on...