Politics

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UP CM Akhilesh Yadav, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party Patriarch will address host of rallies in the run up to sixth phase of UP Assembly polls.

The security in the Mau district, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi is expected to address a rally on Monday, has been ramped up after Mau ASP RK Singh on Sunday claimed that there was a threat to PM Modi's life.

Prominent contestants in this phase include controversial minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati (SP), who will be facing Amita Singh (Congress) and Garima Singh (BJP) in Amethi, the Lok Sabha constituency of Rahul Gandhi.

It was an important press conference, held on the eve of fifth phase polling in Uttar Pradesh. As Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav entered the media hall of the Samajwadi Party headquarters, what was expected was a scathing attack on rivals in the seemingly...

Union Minister of State for Human Resources Development Upendra Kushwaha on Sunday criticised Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar said he was a curse for the state.

“For 40 years, Amethi has only been losing its maryada but in 2017, the original garima of the constituency will return,” echoed the voice of an elderly BJP leader in Amethi, Uttar Pradesh.

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief also said that the two will however not succeed in their efforts to come to power in UP as the state's people were wise enough to reject their divisive politics.

As the first capital of the princely state of Awadh in the early 18th century, the seeds of the famous 'Ganga-Jamuni tehzeeb’ were sown in Faizabad, which was then a small city barely 20 km from the temple town of Ayodhya.

The AAP on Friday announced the names of 109 candidates in its first list for Delhi civic body polls to be conducted in April.

The BJP is contesting the Manipur election, which will virtually witness a fight between the Congress and the saffron party, without a chief ministerial candidate and allies, but says its face is Narendra Modi.

This is the first change effected by the Chief Minister after he was sworn-in on February 16.

Both the Shiv Sena and BJP have staked claim that they will emerge victorious in the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation polls.

The Shiv Sena is maintaining its hold on Mumbai, leading on 85 seats followed by BJP on 52 seats as trends of counting of votes in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation, where the saffron allies are locked in a battle, poured in.

The son of a Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate was shot and seriously injured after a clash between SP and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supporters broke out in Uttar Pradesh's Mahoba district on Thursday morning, police said.

Counting for polls to 10 municipal corporations, including the cash-rich Brihanmumbai Municipal Corportation (BMC), and 25 zilla parishads, across Maharashtra will begin at 10am on Thursday morning.

Police used force to disperse Congress leaders and workers who tried to gherao the Madhya Pradesh Assembly. Some senior leaders have been arrested by police. Agitators also pelted stones at police, leading to some injuries.