Politics

In a big-bang poll promise, Rahul Gandhi had on Monday announced that Rs 72,000 per year will be given as minimum income to poor families if his party is voted to power in Lok Sabha polls.

The accusation was hurled at the BJP by Congress president Rahul Gandhi at a rally in Dehradun where BC Khanduri's son Manish Khanduri joined the Congress.

The AAP said it will make Delhi Metro fare hike by the BJP's central government an issue for the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections and will tell the people of Delhi that the seven MPs elected by them in 2014 fully deceived them.

The surprise candidature of Digvijaya Singh has prompted the BJP to redraw its strategy for Bhopal. Former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan's name is also doing the rounds.

Rajbhar's SBSP has demanded a list of five seats including Chandauli, Ghosi, Ambedkarnagar, Jaunpur and either Machlishehar or Lalganj in Uttar Pradesh.

In a tweet, Sinha deplored 'the replacement of Mr Advani by none other than the man who is also the president of the party and whose image or personality is no match nor even a patch on him'.

In Uttar Pradesh, the party has fielded Yogesh Dahiya from Saharanpur, Satish Chandra Sharma from Aligarh and Shweta Sharma from Gautam Budh Nagar for the polls.

Chandrababu Naidu, who had earlier described Jaganmohan Reddy as the 'brand ambassador of crimes', alleged that the YSRCP President was the only leader in the country who had 31 criminal cases against him.

In Amethi, Union minister Smriti Irani will challenge Rahul Gandhi. She has been spending a lot of time with the voters there, making the BJP workers feel that she will make the Congress chief uncomfortable this time.

Pitroda says that the current government has "eaten into the employment base" the country already had and that the challenge now is to create new jobs over and above that damage.

Union minister and BJP leader Vijay Goel said Kejriwal should approach the Election Commission if he had any issues and not indulge in "drama".

Ram Prasad Sarmah, who has been with the BJP for almost three decades, had accused “new intruders” in the party of neglecting long-time workers.

In the last few years, relations soured between Siddiqui and Mayawati and he openly alleged that for the BSP supremo, only money was important. As a result of his barbs, Siddiqui was expelled and later, he joined Congress.

Shah attacked Congress saying that the party has a habit of playing down on comments like Pitroda's on Pulwama attack as the personal opinion of its leaders. He alleged such insult to soldiers faces no action in Congress.

Poet Imran Pratapgarghi, known for his controversial couplets and posts against the establishment, will replace Babbar in Moradabad.

Kharge is one of the strongest leaders in the Hyderabad-Karnataka region, which is also considered a Congress bastion and has won the assembly election from here a record nine times and the Lok Sabha election twice.