Politics

The 12-days high-voltage campaign, which came to an end on Thursday, saw over 450 rallies by star campaigners of the BJP and the Congress including Prime minister Narendra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah who addressed seven and six rallies respectively.

On demonetisation's anniversary, the National Award-winning actor shared a note on Twitter, alleging that the "rich had found ways to convert their black money into shiny notes", demonetisation's disruptive impact left millions suffering helplessly.

Rahul said the Congress stood with all those people who have suffered due to demonetisation, which was announced on November 8, 2016.

Ahead of the padayatra, though, Jagan Reddy faced a big jolt as his party MLA from Rampachodavaram, Vantala Rajeswari, joined the Telugu Desam Party on Saturday

The picture, which showed Yadav standing with an unidentified woman and a bottle of liquor in the backdrop was released at a joint press conference called by JD(U) spokesmen Sanjay Singh, Neeraj Kumar and Nikhil Mandal.

This comes at a time when tensions between Kumar Vishwas and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal are on the rise again.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Wednesday said the liberal, tolerant Indian ethos that former prime minister late Indira Gandhi embodied is being rejected and repudiated.

The party will be called 'Karnataka Pragnyavatha Janata Paksha' (KPJP) - roughly translated, it means the party of aware (politically, socially aware) people – Upendra announced.

During an interaction at his official residence in south Mumbai, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Monday said the BJP-Sena coalition government in Maharashtra will continue as there is not much of tension between the two parties.

After undertaking his maiden visit to Taj Mahal, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath says controversy over the 17th century is “unwarranted” as it was built by the labourers of India.

According to his programme, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath will stay for half-an-hour at the graves of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal and visit the Shah Jahan park nearby.

The 2017 Gujarat Assembly Elections will have two phases, with phase 1 being held on December 9 and phase 2 taking place on December 14. The counting of votes will take place on December 18.

"If I have to face the consequence for speaking up against someone in the government, bring it on,” the actor-producer said.

On the face of it, Hardik Patel doing business with Congress leaders shouldn’t be a big deal. After all, in politics, enemy’s enemy is your friend.

The Tamil Nadu BJP seems to have shot itself in the foot by taking on a popular actor like Vijay over a couple of dialogues which, if they were left alone, would have passed off without raising anyone’s hackles.

Patidar leader Narendra Patel claimed that the BJP had offered him Rs 1 crore to join them. While, Nikhil Sawani said the saffron party is offering bribes to several other Patidar leaders.