Politics

It will be the first visit of the Sena chief to Ayodhya after his party severed ties with the BJP and the NDA over sharing of power after the results of the Maharashtra elections were declared in October last year.

Election to the 70-member Delhi Assembly will take place on February 8 and results will be declared on February 11.

The UP chief minister said that the previous governments did not have courage to take the issue of citizenship to minorities in other neighboring countries but now are creating confusion among the people.

The election of a new president brings to end incumbent Shah's tenure of over five-and-a-half years during which the BJP expanded its footprints across the country.

Sant Lal Chawaria, the national general secretary of Valmiki Mahapanchayat, is expected to be pitted seat against AAP minister Rajendra Pal Gautam on Seemapuri Assembly seat.

BS Yediyurappa was keen on getting approval for it from Amit Shah, but was asked to visit Delhi after returning from Davos, party sources said.

Jagdeep Dhankhar also said that Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, being a woman, should understand the sensitivity of the matter.

He also said Partition, which took place on a communal basis, was 'not unavoidable', and questioned then Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for entering into an agreement with people who propounded the two-nation theory.

Dilip Ghosh alleged that BJP workers were baton-charged by police when they tried to go to Nandigram, the epicentre of farmland protests led by now Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee over a decade back.

Adarsh Shastri was removed from the AAP list and Vinay Kumar Mishra, a former Congress leader and son of former Congress MP Mahabal Mishra, has been given the chance to contest from the seat.

The development came at a time when the Governor and the state government are at loggerheads following the former's support for the contentious Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), which has been opposed vociferously by the latter.

On the BJP fielding Ravi Negi against him in the Patparganj Assembly constituency, Manish Sisodia said votes in Delhi will be for the work done and nothing else can influence people.

The election for all 50 Zilla Panchayat constituencies would be held on March 15 and the schedule for filing nominations and counting would be issued later.

Raut had said in Pune that Indira Gandhi used to meet gangster Lala during Mumbai visits, drawing sharp reaction from the Congress, which is also a part of the Shiv Sena-led government. On Thursday, Raut withdrew his comment.

Vanlalhmuaka also slammed state Congress president Lal Thanhawla for claiming that the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act is more dangerous than the seven-headed beast mentioned in the Bible.

The state minister alleges that the two national parties have reached an understanding in a bid to defeat the ruling TRS in this month’s Telangana municipal elections.