Politics

The ruling BJP has 103 MLAs in the assembly, and it can only send two of its candidates to the Rajya Sabha unless it manages cross-voting from the Congress to win the third seat.

The arrested duo have been identified as Sudhanshu and Ashwani, while a hunt is on for Lalu, the third accused, police said, adding the posters were put up late on Friday night, but were removed on Saturday.

Elections to Mandal Parishad Territorial Constituencies and Zilla Parishad Territorial Constituencies were originally scheduled for March 21.

The government hiked excise duty on petrol and diesel by a steep Rs 3 per litre each to garner about Rs 39,000 crore additional revenue.

The former BJP minister’s old-school practice of patience and buying time in politics has served him well over the years.

Addressing home minister Amit Shah in the Rajya Sabha during a discussion on the riots that claimed 53 lives, Sibal questioned why no FIRs had been filed despite there being evidence of some policeman aiding rioters.

Bhattacharya, a veteran Left leader and Calcutta High Court lawyer, had unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from Jadavpur constituency.

A marginal player in the state till it stung Mamata Banerjee’s TMC by bagging 18 of the 42 Lok Sabha seats in 2019, the BJP hopes to capture power on the back of Hindu consolidation over her government's alleged pro-minority bias.

Packing more expletives, the Bengal BJP president said, 'Women are forgetting our cultural heritage. They shout all through the day. What kind of a Bengal is this? If these women behave in this way, how will the common people behave with them?'

Chowdhury won the Baharampur Lok Sabha seat defeating a Trinamool Congress candidate, Apurba Sarkar, in 2019.

The party's statement came in the wake of the BJP's sharp digs at the former Congress chief that he may be carrying the deadly virus as he had travelled to Italy, which has emerged as one of the global coronavirus hotspots.

The SC will hear an appeal filed by Hardik Patel challenging the Gujarat High Court order which had rejected his anticipatory bail plea in a case related to violence during the Patidar quota stir in 2015.

With the Opposition demanding why the BJP MPs from the state are not taking up the funds cut issue with their central high command, Yediyurappa said a delegation would submit a memorandum to the Centre in a week.

Rambai Singh is a suspended MLA of the BSP, who was 'brought back' by Congress leaders Jitu Patwari and Jai Vardhan Singh from a luxury hotel in Haryana to Bhopal on Wednesday.

The Lok Sabha was adjourned on Thursday as vociferous protests and sloganeering by opposition parties over the Delhi violence disrupted proceedings for the fourth straight day.

The Trinamool has never won any seats in Malda till date, except that after the 2016 assembly elections, four MLAs shifted to the party, including one Independent, one from the CPI (M) and two from the Congress.