Politics

At a press conference, Union minister Piyush Goyal released the emails and accused the Congress of obstructing development in Gujarat, on eve of the last phase of the state elections.

Rahul Gandhi also made it clear that the language used by family loyalist Mani Shankar Aiyar against the Prime Minister during the heat of the campaign was “unacceptable” to the party.

Mamata Banerjee made the comments while addressing a public meeting at Kanksa in Paschim Bardhaman district.

PM Narendra had claimed at an election rally in Gujarat that Congress leaders held a “secret meeting” with current and former Pakistani officials following which Mani Shankar Aiyar made the "neech" remark against him.

The anti-Sikh riots in 1984 and those in 1992 after the Babri Masjid demolition re-entered the political discourse with Congress leader Charan Singh Sapra daring Prime Minister Narendra Modi to “apologise in Jama Masjid” like Sonia Gandhi had done in Amri...

Ahmedabad Police Commissioner A K Singh denied the permission to both Congress and BJP, citing traffic congestion and some main market and old city areas, which are communally sensitive and have narrow roads, falling on the routes of the roadshows, a sen...

The chanting did not deter Rahul Gandhi and the Congress scion continued smiling and waving to the crowd as he walked out of the temple.

The simmering anger of the Patidar community, upset over the violence in 2015 during the agitation for reservation, could brim over on election day, spelling trouble for the party.

Stung by Nitish Kumar’s decision to dump the alliance and form a new government with old ally BJP, the RJD, under the leadership of Lalu’s younger son and former deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav, is trying to garner support from other parties.

The ghost of his erstwhile party -- the Karnataka Janata Party (KJP) -- lingers on, Yeddyurappa discovered much to his discomfiture on Thursday.

Modi, who inaugurated the centre in the heart of the national capital in Janpath, also took a jibe at Rahul Gandhi's comment on being a Shiva devotee and said some parties talked more of Baba Bhole (Lord Shiva) than Babasaheb.

BJP MP Virendra Singh Mast heading the party's farmer cell, cited the recent statement of the Archbishop of Gandhinagar in which the latter called for defeat of "nationalist forces".

This comes a day after lawyer and Congress leader Kapil Sibal asked the Supreme Court to defer its judgment in the Ayodhya Babri Masjid Ram Janambhoomi case.

The BSP winning the two mayoral seats in the recent municipal elections was definitely a booster shot for the party and now the newly-elected Meerut mayor, Sunita Verma toppled the ex-Mayor’s decision on compulsory Singing of Vande Mataram.

Jignesh Mevani said the BJP was scared of him and that's why it was resorting to such acts.

Accompanied by her mother Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh and other senior Congress leaders, Rahul Gandhi will file his nomination papers for the election to the top Congress post on Monday, the last date for filing of nominations.