Politics

BJP supporters asked the legislator to join the celebrations outside the Ramada Hotel in Bengaluru as the party stands the chance of forming the government after the ruling coalition failed the floor test on Tuesday.

The Dalit leader said villagers belonging to the Gond tribal community were being threatened even days after the incident and hence, they should either be given security cover or arms license to protect themselves.

Gandhi asserted that a 'weak' foreign ministry's denial wouldn't do and Modi must tell the nation what transpired in the meeting between him and the US President.

The chief minister said the people of Delhi would always remember her contribution and the void left by her would never be filled. She understood the issues concerning Delhi very well, Kejriwal said.

The deadlock ended amid a show of solidarity in the Congress for Gandhi, who is the general secretary in charge of eastern Uttar Pradesh, with party leaders calling her detention illegal arrest and organising protests at several places.

The state government has lost majority and there should be an immediate decision (floor test) Singh said. He also alleged that the ruling coalition in Karnataka was not based on principles and ideology but on selfishness.

The protesters carried placards reading 'the Modi government is scared of Priyanka Gandhi' and raised anti-government slogans.

The tweet of BSP chief comes at a time when Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi sat on a dharna in Mirzapur as she was stopped on her way to Sonbhadra from Varanasi.

Minister of State for Personnel Jitendra Singh said 26 officers figuring in 20 CBI cases from these All India Services have been convicted in the past three years.

The Congress and the NCP have been in an alliance since 1999. It was only in 2014 state assembly polls that the two sides parted ways.

Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy is due to face a trust vote on Thursday and his government could collapse ahead of it if Speaker KR Ramesh Kumar was to accept the resignations of the rebel MLAs.

Imran Hussain, who was looking after the environment, forest and wildlife department, will now have the sole responsibility of food and supply ministry.

A BJP leader said that with Assembly polls around the corner in the capital, Purvanchali voters become a deciding factor in electoral outcomes and hence, the move.

In the letter to Mumbai police chief, the rebel MLAs said they have 'absolutely no intention of meeting Mallikarjun Kharge or Ghulam Nabi Azad or any other Congress dignitary'.

The MLA, Aleixo Reginaldo Lourenco, is among the five MLAs left in the Congress, which had emerged as the single largest party after the 2017 assembly polls.

It is speculated that the BJP’s effort to poach the MLAs was prompted by Sardesai's adamant stand and his refusal to forgo a Cabinet berth to accommodate the saffron party's Michael Lobo.