Politics

In the BJP, the onus of reaching out to sulking party leaders is jointly shouldered by many senior leaders, including Narendra Singh Tomar, state president Rakesh Singh, and state in charge Vinay Sahastrabuddhe.

The members also demanded a review of the candidate-selection process, saying of the 65 seats, only 13 were allotted to backward candidates.

For the champions of subaltern politics discussing Marxist dialectics in Delhi, Amra Ram has shown how to survive and even win in the quagmire of caste and communally surcharged polity.

Samajwadi Party Akhilesh Yadav said that president of a national party boasted about how the former Uttar Pradesh CM had hit his father. He said that a reporter also spread fake news that he hits his mother.

The Leader of Opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly broke his "yatra" on October 25 after he was attacked at the Visakhapatnam airport and was on rest on the advice of doctors.

On Saturday morning, Deve Gowda had said that Kumaraswamy was resting for three days on doctor’s advice and was not opposing the celebrations, but the 'BJP is using the occasion for political gains as it wants to polarise votes'.

Amid a widening rift in the Chautala family, Dushyant Chautala said only the INLD's national executive or a committee headed by the party president could take action against him.

The Congress manifesto for MP promises agricultural loan waiver for farmers up to Rs 2 lakh, 50 per cent waiver on electric bills for the agrarian sector and a decrease in fuel and LPG prices.

The Haryana-based party has been staring at a split after Om Prakash Chautala expelled his grandsons Dushyant and Digvijay from its primary membership for indiscipline.

The Congress, which toured the state’s 24 districts before coming up with the manifesto, has also promised better healthcare facilities and a safer environment for the state’s women.

Speculations had been rife that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Janata Dal (United) could field their candidates on 34 of the total 40 seats in Bihar, leaving the rest for the LJP and the RLSP.

A new entrant to the grand old party, Pathak was with the BJP-led NDA constituent Republican Party of India (Athawale) as its state vice-president for Uttar Pradesh till he joined the Congress last month.

There are also examples of father-son duo of M Krishnappa and Priyakrishna, and father-daughter duo of M Ramalinga Reddy and Sowmya Reddy entering the House. This is, however, a rare occasion in the Karnataka assembly when a chief minister will be enterin...

37-year-old Pratima Wasnik is the poorest candidate in these elections. Her affidavit says she has just Rs 1,200 movable assets and Rs 20,000 as election funds.

In Bellary, VS Ugrappa romped home by over two lakh votes and in Jhamkhandi, Anand Nyamagouda registered an impressive win by a margin of over 39,000 votes. These two seats are in the BJP stronghold of north Karnataka.

Shashank's removal is the only solution for smooth conduct of the November 28 Assembly elections, the chief minister said in his letter.