Politics

As per BJP sources, Amit Shah has asked the workers to go to booths, search for Yadavs and Dalits willing to join the party and ask the booth in-charge to enrol them as members.

The Congress on late Friday night sent 44 of its Gujarat legislators to Bengaluru. Of the 57 Congress MLAs in the state, six resigned from the party in the last two days, with three of them joining the BJP on Friday.

BSP chief Mayawati said the central government had misused its power in a very blatant manner in Gujarat following which MLAs have been forced to leave their state and move to a safer place.

Ahmed Patel's rise in the Congress pecking order under Mrs Sonia Gandhi has been phenomenal, and perhaps the most under-reported development in contemporary Indian politics.

The desertion of MLAs from the Congress Legislature Party is worrying for the party which has fielded its senior leader Ahmed Patel for the Upper House election, slated on August 8.

Nitish Kumar has won the crucial floor test in Bihar Assembly with 131 votes for and 108 against the motion.

Mayawati said misuse of power and government machinery by the senior leadership of the BJP for the lure of power is continuously posing a challenge to democratic norms.

Instead of participating in the proceedings of the House, members of the Samajwadi Party (SP), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Congress sat in the central hall and ran a parallel "House".

The CPI(M) criticised the NDA government over its economic policies, saying they are responsible for the widening disparity between the poor and the rich.

As per the report, co-operative cell convener RS Vinod took Rs 5.6 crore in exchange for getting a Medical Council of India (MCI) nod for a college, and routed the money to Delhi through a hawala operative.

The Gandhi scion targeted PM Modi's demonetisation drive - which rendered more than 85% of total currency illegal - saying the move was publicly proclaimed as a stroke of genius, but privately they called it insanity.

Ambika Soni is the AICC general secretary incharge of party affairs in Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Jammu and Kashmir.

Sushil Kumar Modi on Wednesday said the way Tejaswi Yadav led a "julus" (procession) of RJD ministers to the cabinet meeting on Tuesday reflected as if he was "issuing a threat to Nitish Kumar that the entire party is with him and nothing can be done agai...

After her angry walkout from the Rajya Sabha, BSP chief Mayawati had dropped enough hints that she is not afraid of facing the electorate. If she indeed decides to contest, Mayawati may be the joint candidate of the SP, BSP and Congress.

The contest is now between Venkaiah Naidu and the opposition candidate Gopalkrishna Gandhi for the post of Vice-President.

RJD has been citing example of Union minister Uma Bharti among other charge sheeted in Babri mosque demolition case and continuing in the ministry.