Politics

Venkaiah Naidu held deliberations with a number of constitutional and legal experts, including Attorney General K K Venugopal.

The Delhi Commission for Women (DCW) chief had been demanding death penalty for rape of minors and setting up of fast-track courts across the country to try rape cases, along with other demands.

Kumaraswamy, a former Chief Minister, will also be contesting from Channapatna constituency, apart from Ramanagara, which was announced in the first list.

A single-judge bench of Justice Subrata Talukdar asked the poll panel to consult with the state government for the fresh dates and issue a notification soon.

Patil also said that the Congress favoured constructing a mosque in Ayodhya instead of a Ram temple.

Togadia slammed the BJP over its handling of the Ayodhya temple issue and asked what the party would do if the Supreme Court gives its judgement in favour of the mosque.

Banerjee said that the CPI(M), Congress and the BJP are three brothers who play one role in New Delhi and another in West Bengal

Addressing the National Management convention in Kochi, Thomas, the former chairman of the Public Accounts Committee of Parliament, had reportedly said that regardless of whether his decisions were right or wrong, Modi was able to do it.

A video clipping of the two BJP leaders - Bhimrao Tapkir and Sanjay Bhegade alias Bala - chomping on sandwiches and chips went viral on the social media and was broadcast by television channels, even as embarrassed state BJP leaders kept mum.

On Tuesday, several media organisations and lakhs of voters across Karnataka received a ‘candidates list’ allegedly from the Congress via WhatsApp.

The panchayat polls are scheduled to be held on 1, 3 and 5 May. The votes will be counted on 8 May.

BJP spokesperson Anil Baluni said Rahul Gandhi should not worry about Prime Minister Narendra Modi and should rather be concerned about his and Sonia Gandhi's electoral fate in 2019.

"The Rajasthan government is a government of dictator and is a group of those who extort money. Corruption has been institutionalised under her government and social harmony has been disturbed," Tiwari charged.

In a party resolution, Thackeray had announced that Sena would contest the 2019 Assembly and Lok Sabha elections on its own without a truck with the BJP.

Jagan Reddy also said Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has been "resorting to theatrics, which could fetch him an Oscar award in the best anti-hero category".

Taking to Twitter, Congress spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala asked why the practice of drawing up three versions of the question paper done away with and questioned the free run to “exam mafia”.