Politics

The 33-year-old man, identified as Suresh, who is a scrap dealer in the area, has been a supporter of the Aam Aadmi Party and used to work as an organiser of the party's rallies and meetings.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that instead of distributing manifestoes like Congress, BJP is distributing Rs 20,000 to village pradhans.

PM Narendra Modi said while a Congress leader is sharing the stage with the SP, an apparent reference to Priyanka Gandhi who was present at an SP meeting in Rae Bareli this week, the BSP is attacking the grand old party.

Congress candidate Shatrughan Sinha attended an election meeting on Thursday with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav.

Rahul Gandhi has been directed to be present before the court on June 7 over a complaint filed by an MLA from Surat-West seat.

The Election Commission had on Wednesday given its second clean chit to the PM for his appeal to first-time voters by invoking the Balakot airstrikes in Latur, Maharashtra.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) alleged that Modi has crossed the expenditure limit of Rs 70 lakh by a candidate for his road-show in Varanasi and sought action against him.

Congress alleged that the BJP has sought to 'deeply politicise' the blood and sacrifice of the country's jawans, but have become mute when such cowardly attack takes place.

The BJP had contested 427 seats in 2014 and won 282 of them, while the Congress had fielded candidates in 450 seats and bagged just 44.

Senior Congress leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi has stated in the letter to EC that details of places such as its cultural significance have been sought, adding that local administrations were asked to send details within a day.

The MHA issued a notice after Subramanian Swamy claimed that a company named Backops Limited was registered in the UK in 2003 with Gandhi as one of its directors.

Former BSF constable Tej Bahadur Yadav was on Monday declared as the candidate of the BSP, SP and RLD alliance in Uttar Pradesh.

At a rally attended by Union ministers V K Singh, Jitendra Singh and minister Vijay Sampla, Sunny Deol made a brief four-minute speech in which he called himself a patriot who does not know much about politics.

Clashes erupted between BJP and TMC workers in Asansol on Monday and BJP MP Babul Supriyo’s car was vandalised in the violence.

The BJP chief also claimed that a pall of gloom had descended on Pakistan and the offices of SP, BSP and Congress on the day of surgical strikes.

Addressing a public meeting of Communist Party of India in Bhopal, Singh claimed that there had been confusion over Kumar’s alleged remarks in his party but firmly expressed that the Congress should have given the Begusarai seat to CPI in the agreement.