Politics

He will participate in a roadshow in the central Karnataka town before entering the neighbouring district of Davanagere. Davanagere is a stronghold of Lingayats and a powerful section has backed Siddaramaiah government’s decision to accord minority status...

The pre-poll alliance with the JDS had upset Karnataka unit of the BSP and some leaders had questioned the rationale behind it.

The four-member central BJP delegation, led by Om Prakash Mathur, were not stopped by the West Bengal police from entering the relief camps in Asansol despite Section 144 of the CrPc being imposed in the area.

Top brass of the BJP, which considers the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) as its ideological mentor, has often talked about a 'Congress-free India'.

Both the BJP and the Congress have scam-accused in their ranks, but that hasn’t stopped them from trading corruption charges ahead of Karnataka Assembly elections.

Several Congress leaders took to Twitter to say that for once they agreed with Shah. The BJP chief sought to mention Siddaramaiah but named his party's former chief minister instead in bringing corruption charges against him.

A meeting with current Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, however, is unlikely as Mamata has been projecting herself as a leader of a potential non-BJP front.

It was not just the Samajwadi party which kept up its promise to BSP chief Mayawati, even the Congress stood by its commitment for Behen ji. So even in the defeat, the alliance sailed through, indicating that the new-found bonhomie between the SP-BSP is h...

Lok Sabha elections may be scheduled for next year, but Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh – the two biggest states in India by area – are heading to polls later this year.

Khaira described the incident as "very painful" and told mediapersons that a show cause notice would be issued to the two MLAs for embarrassing the party in the Assembly.

Addressing the media in his party office, Nitish Kumar first chose to distance himself when asked about BJP leaders' statement on alleged anti-national sloganeering in Araria and beheading of a person in Darbhanga.

The 36-year-old independent MLA, who shot to prominence after the Dalit flogging incident in Gujarat's Una last year, made the remarks during a Dalit Labour Rights rally.

The Modi government has expressed confidence that the notices for no-confidence motion, even if they are admitted, will be defeated given its strength in the Lok Sabha.

Priyanka has always denied having any political ambitions and when asked, she has always made it clear that it’s her brother and not her, who will be the face of the party.

Ram Vilas Paswan expressed concern over some leaders of the ruling NDA at the Centre occasionally making remarks that created an impression of the alliance being against certain sections of the society.

With 19 MLAs, the BSP is short of 18 first preference votes, and with Naresh Agarwal's son Nitin, who is still an SP MLA, likely to cross-vote for the BJP, the task will become difficult for Mayawati's candidate Bhimrao Ambedkar.