Politics

The allocation was done last week amid rumours that many ministers are not happy with the additional portfolios

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party had trounced the Bharatiya Janata Party in the 2015 Delhi Assembly polls, winning 67 of the 70 seats.

The Governor said Jaganmohan Reddy's government will implement all welfare schemes to eligible beneficiaries in the state irrespective of their caste, creed and religion on a saturation basis.

The Congress leader, who was in Raebareli, said it was the voters who ensured the party's victory in Sonia Gandhi's constituency and she would find out which workers did not put efforts to ensure the party's win.

Gehlot, the social justice and empowerment minister, is an experienced parliamentarian and a Dalit face of the saffron party.

Former Jaipur mayor Jyoti Khandelwal blamed the party's state vice-president Archana Sharma for her loss.

The prime minister is expected to underline the role of ministers of state in the running of ministries and may ask Cabinet ministers to give their deputies adequate responsibilities.

Rae Bareli is the only seat that the Congress has won in Uttar Pradesh in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.

The JD(U) won seven seats in the 60-member assembly of the north eastern state, next only to the ruling BJP which bagged 41 seats and secured a majority.

Mamata Banerjee held a two-hour-long closed-door meeting with the district unit leaders, after it lost the Hooghly Lok Sabha seat to BJP and just managed to scrape through in Arambagh.

State BJP president Dilip Ghosh, who was a part of the rallies along with Union minister Debasree Chaudhuri, however, asserted that the party will "continue to hold victory rallies in the state despite the prohibition".

Comparing Maharana Pratap with the Mughal emperor is making a mockery of the history, Rajasthan BJP chief said.

Telangana Congress chief N Utham Kumar Reddy said the party would approach the Telangana High Court on Friday and file cases with the Lokpal, along with evidence of MLAs benefiting from changing parties.

Telangana Rashtra Samithi working president KT Rama Rao had Tuesday said responsibility on the party grew following the massive victory in the rural local body polls.

Kuldeep Singh Sengar, a legislator from Unnao, has been lodged in Sitapur jail after a 16-year-old girl alleged that he had raped her when she went to his home with a relative seeking a job.

Delhi BJP leader Vijender Gupta alleged that the statements of the accused were made with "ulterior motives" to degrade his reputation, malign his image and gain some cheap political mileage in the 2019 general elections.