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BJP MP Nishikant Dubey also promised to meet the family of the accused and provide all possible assistance. "I will make sure that they don't suffer", he said.​

Adityanath said Akbar had asked Pratap to accept him as the king and promised in return that he would not interfere in the affairs of his kingdom of Mewar. He said even Jaipur king Man Singh came as a messenger but Pratap refused.

Dinakaran, who has vowed to unseat Chief Minister O Palaniswami after the latter revolted against him, had been claiming that the government would not last long.

Former Union minister Yashwant Sinha on Wednesday said a prime minister like Atal Bihari Vajpayee would have held talks with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to end the ongoing impasse between the AAP government and the bureaucracy.

BSP Chief Mayawati calls move of opening senior-level bureaucratic posts "administrative failure" by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Akhilesh Yadav said, “We are committed to the alliance with the BSP and will continue working with them, even if we have to sacrifice 2-4 seats, we are not going to stop. We will bring the BJP down.”

In what perhaps is a jibe at the Congress’ perceived appeasement of allies in the state, the ad says interested parties can contact the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) or the Kerala Congress (Mani).

Pictures and video clips showed damage to a cycle track, on walls after air-conditioners seemed to have been removed and to the floor of what seemed to be a badminton court at the bungalow.

After the meeting, revolting Congress leader MB Patil said the plan of action would be decided after discussions with the 15-20 MLAs who are unhappy with the cabinet expansion. He, however, asserted that he has no plans to quit the Congress.

BJP Chief Amit Shah said he considered himself lucky that he has got such an opposition which was satisfied with victory in a few by-elections even though it was losing power in many states.

Portfolio sharing had turned out to be a thorny issue between the Congress and JD(S) and was thrashed out after much haggling, with both parties announcing an agreement on June 1.

Veteran MLAs like MB Patil, Dinesh Gundurao, Roshan Baig, Ramalinga Reddy, Satish Jharkiholi and Shamanur Shivashankarappa were kept out of the HD Kumaraswamy cabinet on Wednesday, sending shockwaves across the party circles.

Reacting to the much-awaited speech by Mukherjee at an RSS event in Nagpur, CPI(M) general-secretary Sitaram Yechury questioned him for not mentioning the assassination of father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi during his speech.

Raju Shetti likened the political impact, or lack of it, of the meeting between the chiefs of the two bickering saffron parties to the one that Shah had with actor Madhuri Dixit earlier on Wednesday.

Her outburst came soon after rumours about her joining the BJP cropped up ahead of Mukherjee's visit to Nagpur.

According to sources, while the meeting between Shah and Thackeray took place on the second floor, Fadnavis was seated on the ground floor of Matoshree.