Politics

Petitions have been filed with the President seeking disqualification of the these MLAs on the ground that they occupied office of profit in violation of Constitution.

Entrance examinations for professional courses like medicine and engineering were rescinded in 2006 to protect the interests of minorities, rural, backward, most backward and SC, ST, students, he recalled.

The votes of 14 Congress MLAs were declared invalid leading to the loss of Anand who was otherwise expected to win.

According to sources, BJP Parliamentary Party will decide on the UP chief minsterial candidate and not the executive board.

Hitting out at the Congress, he said there was no sector, wherein corruption did not take place during the UPA regime.

If BJP projects Yogi Adityananth as its CM candidate in UP, it was bound to win 300 seats, Sadhvi added

"The timing has to be decided by the Congress President Sonia Gandhi, because ultimately she is the one who has to decide," he said.

10 candidates, including former Maharashtra Chief Minister Narayan Rane, who had filed nomination papers for 10 seats of the Legislative Council, were also elected unopposed as two others withdrew from the fray.

Amarinder also exhorted the youth to actively participate in the political process.

The entire city has been mapped in different mohallas which have been determined by factoring in the demographic profile and the socio-economic nature of neighbourhoods across the capital.

The Home Minister said he wanted to give a message to Pakistan that it should curb terrorist activities on its soil.

Rumblings have surfaced within the Mahagathbandhan in Bihar. RJD MP Mohammad Taslimuddin has hit out at the Nitish Kumar government saying it has failed to ensure law and order in the state. "His first job is administration, to give security. Is it happen...