Politics

Arvind Kejriwal's apology to former Punjab minister Bikram Singh Majithia has come as a body blow to AAP’s Punjab unit as the former SAD minister was its prime target during the election campaign.

The Congress party has often uses this word to draw people's attention to the time the former CM was indicted in the illegal mining case back in 2011 which was also the cause of the BJP governments downfall in the subsequent elections in 2013.

The current situation warrants such action to save the country from disaster, tweets Mamata Banerjee after Chandrababu Naidu’s TDP snaps ties with NDA.

Tamil Nadu BJP unit chief Tamilisai Soundararajan said she got an e-mail from Kamal Haasan's party Makkal Neethi Maiam enrolling her as a member. Hours after her claim, MNM said it had proof of getting a request for membership registration from her websit...

RJD leaders attacked the Nitish Kumar government, alleging massive corruption in road construction projects which drew strong response from the treasury benches.

With CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan still standing ground as the poster boy of OBCs in Madhya Pradesh, Rajmani Patel’s nomination to Rajya Sabha is being seen as another attempt by the Congress to dent Shivraj’s pet vote bank.

The list, announced the BJP's central election committee, included the names of former Maharashtra chief minister Narayan Rane, BJP general secretaries Anil Jain and Saroj Pandey and its spokespersons Anil Baluni and GVL Narasimha Rao.

The bypolls were necessitated after Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya vacated the Gorakhpur and Phulpur Lok Sabha seats, respectively following their election to the state legislative council.

The Samajwadi Party, the BSP, and the Congress can together send two candidates to the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh. The BSP has 19 seats, the SP has 47 and the Congress six. Each candidate requires 33 votes in the house to win.

The Congress, which has launched a tirade against the government over the Rafale deal that Prime Minister Narendra Modi struck during his visit to France in April 2015, however, said that the issue would not be raised during the meeting.

Jyotiraditya Scindia, a key contender for the Chief Minister’s post, said that the bypoll results have indicated that the BJP government’s ouster is imminent in Madhya Pradesh.

The heavy defeat in Tripura has raised several questions within the CPI(M) on adopting the "right strategy" for survival, party leaders said.

Adityanath said for the first time after Independence, these north-eastern states will get chance to join the national mainstream and enjoy fruits of development.

According to the data available on the Election Commission's website, the AAP contested six seats in Meghalaya and three in Nagaland. The party could not save its deposit in eight of them.

Member of the disciplinary committee Fazle Masood sought an explanation from party's organising secretary Sanjay Dixit and secretary Avdhesh Singh in this regard, a party release issued in Lucknow read.

Given the political uncertainty in Tamil Nadu, two of its main political parties continue to be at loggerheads and as analysts say, the DMK never stops trying to bring down the ‘leaderless’ AIADMK government. But have the situation changed since the Jayal...