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Sources said the choice of Kamal Nath has garnered support from ex-CM Digvijaya Singh, who until recently was seen as a potential challenger. Upon his return from the 3,300-km Narmada Parikrama, Singh said that he was not in the race for the CM’s post.

In a ‘do-or-die’ battle for Karnataka, JD(S) supremo Deve Gowda seems to have invested more in gods than in his party candidates.

Speaking at the programme in Narsinghpur, Minister for Panchayat and Rural Development Gopal Bhargav said, “It is fine when the weak are uplifted, but if students securing 40% are preferred to those securing 90%, our country would lag. Bharat Mata won't f...

About 40 Lingayats have made it to the list and around 25 Vokkaligas have also been given tickets. There are 15 Muslims, 15 women, seven sitting MLCs and all five sitting Brahmin MLAs have also been renominated.

Those who have felt safe in Bihar all these years today question Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's laxity.

The opposition ire in West Bengal has shifted from the Trinamool Congress to the State Election Commission.

Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal (United) national president Nitish Kumar will address party workers in poll-bound Karnataka on Wednesday as his party has decided to field candidates on 25 to 30 Assembly seats.

Singh, 70, and his wife Amrita started the 'parikrama' (circumambulation) of the Narmada river in MP as a "religious and spiritual" exercise from Narsinghpur district.

Stating this in a letter to Uttarakhand Election Commission, Secretary Urban Development R K Sudhanshu said due to unavoidable reasons the notification for civic body polls in the state cannot be issued on April 9 as decided earlier.

Ram Mohana Rao said: The meeting on Cauvery happened on September 27, 2016. Jayalalithaa spent two hours talking to us and was vehemently giving us instructions. She wanted to fight for the Cauvery issue.

Ananth Kumar told reporters that Modi said about 20,844 villages have over 50 percent population of scheduled castes and tribes and MPs should work to implement these schemes, including Jan Dhan and Ujjwala among others.

"Baba used to say will do great work, will foil the Narmada scam, but now only 'Mama' (maternal uncle) knows what their final destination is. 'Qayamat se Qayamat tak' (doomsday) in Madhya Pradesh," Rahul Gandhi tweeted, twisting the lyrics of the song.

Stressing on their demand and to mount pressure on the Centre to fulfil assurances made in the Rajya Sabha including Special Category Status and provisions of AP Reorganisation Act, TDP MPs clarified they won’t leave till the central government respond to...

Speaking to party workers, Amit Chavda thanked the Congress leadership and workers and added that winning a majority of Lok Sabha seats from Gujarat in the general election scheduled next year will be his priority.

Naidu held one-on-one meetings with Veerappa Moily of the Congress, Sharad Pawar of the NCP and Harsimrat Kaur Badal of the SAD.

The RSS had taken direct charge of booth management in Karnataka during the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.