Politics

The BJP has not been able to convince its alliance partners the Goa Forward Party (GFP), the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) and Independents on naming the successor of Manohar Parrikar, who died Sunday, the leader said.

In an FIR filed by the CBI in 2011, Potluri Vara Prasad’s company was named as one of the 74 accused in the alleged disproportionate assets case against the YSR Congress chief.

For long, the Telangana Rashtra Samithi chief has been trying to stitch an anti-BJP and anti-Congress front. He has met several regional satraps, including Mamata Banerjee, Akhilesh Yadav and MK Stalin.

Shehla Rashid said joining the Jammu and Kashmir Peoples' movement was a conscious decision as the party is a movement for peace and development in the state.

Another seat - Villupuram - in the state allotted to it by the DMK-led 'Secular Progressive Alliance' would be contested by the party general secretary and writer T Ravikumar, a former MLA.

The Congress and the CPI(M) are struggling over seat sharing in West Bengal. On one hand, the party leadership has reached an understanding and demarcated seats, while on the other local party workers seem to have their own ideas.

The MP, who is known for making controversial remarks, said the Modi wave of 2014 has turned into a tsunami in 2019 and no one can stop him from becoming the prime minister again.

Days before the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections, PM Modi on Saturday appealed to people to join the #MainBhiChowkidar movement, saying everyone who is working hard to see India progress is a chowkidar.

Siddaramaiah's tweet came amid reports about pressure within the Congress for Rahul Gandhi to contest from one of the seats in south India.

The AGP had severed ties with the BJP-led government in Assam in January to protest against the Centre’s decision to ensure the controversial Bill’s passage in the Lok Sabha.

BJP leader Pankaj Desai, who is also party's observer for Vadodara seat, hinted that PM Modi may consider fulfilling the "popular demand".

Aparna, who is married to Mulayam Yadav's younger son Prateek, had contested 2017 state assembly elections from Lucknow Cantt but lost to BJP’s Rita Bahuguna Joshi.

While then it was Indira Gandhi who was the glue to unite the opposition parties, now Narendra Modi has emerged as the adhesive who brought the rivals together.

Naidu's remarks triggered a strong reaction from the BJP which accused the Telugu Desam party president of resorting to "murky politics" as his party was frightened of losing in the April 11 Lok Sabha and State assembly polls.

In her remarks, Union Minister Smriti Irani said Robert Vadra is 'merely a mask' in the controversial land deals and his brother-in-law Rahul Gandhi is the 'real face'.

BJP chief Amit Shah brought the focus back on these two seats during a rally last year when he exhorted the party cadre to win these seats back from the Congress.