Politics

Tharoor said that Priyanka reminds a lot of people of her grandmother and that she is very comfortable in public gaze.

While getting the seats was easy, the Gowdas now face a crisis. The sub-regional party has no candidates and no organisational structure in five of the eight seats.

Targeting PM Modi, the chief minister asked, 'Why the Modi-led government was extending support to a hardcore criminal like Jagan in the polls.'

'Congress' has been removed from all publicity material of the party and Trinamool leaders have begun using the new logo on their social media.

Since 1978, the YSR family has won all 10 elections from Pulivendula, making it an impregnable fort.

The DMK president reiterated his demand for Rahul Gandhi as Prime Minister and said he is not willing to accept actor Kamal Haasan as a politician.

Jitendra Singh said development work carried out in the constituency in the past five years was 'hundreds of times higher' than that done in the previous six-and-half decades.

Akash, an MBA graduate from London, made his first public appearance in 2016 when he accompanied Mayawati to Saharanpur. The 24-year-old nephew also shared the stage with her during a rally in Meerut in February 2017.

According to sources, the bizarre exchange between the two was triggered because the speaker was against Muniyappa getting a ticket to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Kolar.

Senior party leader J P Nadda told a press conference that the party decided to field Home Minister Rajnath Singh from Lucknow and another Union minister Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur.

Verma, who represents Lakhimpur in the Lok Sabha, was rushed to a hospital and is said to be out of danger.

The turnout of the female voters in 2014 was about 65 per cent—the highest so far going by the figures of the Election Commission since 1967.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to re-contest from Varanasi and the party is also deliberating on whether to field him from one more seat.

Fugitive businessman Nirav Modi was arrested on Tuesday by the Scotland Yard, two days after the Westminster Court issued a warrant against him.

Umesh Jadhav joined the BJP at a party rally in Kalaburagi on March 6, two days after he quit the Assembly membership, and is tipped to take on Congress veteran Mallikarjun Kharge in the coming Lok Sabha elections.

Extending an olive branch to the Congress, the Left Front on Tuesday said the two parties should come together to keep the Trinamool Congress and BJP at bay and reconsider a seat-sharing pact.