Politics

"My name was dropped by the party without taking me into confidence. I was not even told about the reason why my name was dropped. After pressure from my supporters and family members, I resigned from the party. I will now contest the elections from Sanga...

According to farmers, the top bureaucrats were busy devouring the elaborate spread arranged by the district administrations and visited the drought-affected farm lands for just five minutes.

The state government and the Opposition entered into a war of words after the latter termed the incumbent as the ‘thugs of Maharashtra’ in a press conference preceding the session.

In a dig at Congress leaders, including P Chidambaram who had named several party presidents hailing from outside the Gandhi family, Shah said in tweets that Modi's challenge had ruffled several feathers with 'many courtiers going out of the way to prove...

Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala's letter read, 'Sidhu is a legislator and a senior (Punjab) cabinet minister as also an outspoken critic of Modi government's policies, there seems to be a growing threat perception to his life.'

Addressing the party’s extended core committee meeting on Friday, Mamata Banerjee criticised the BJP’s ‘Rath Yatras’ (chariot rallies) scheduled on December 5, 7 and 9 from Birbhum, Coochbehar and Gangasagar in South 24 Parganas district.

Taking a swipe at the BJP government in UP, Patel claimed that while cities are being renamed, issues such as unemployment and farmer loans are being 'overlooked'. 'Today the BJP is only interested in names and idols,' he added.

BJP MLA Gyandev Ahuja, who hit the national headlines at the height of the JNU controversy in 2016 for his remarks that thousands of condoms were found on the university campus daily, was also dropped.

Sagar is seen as the principal architect behind the mega scam. His arrest from a Mumbai hotel in 2013 by Indore crime branch sleuths had blown the lid off the scam.

Most opinion polls in the past few months have given the party an edge in the state as it is expected to ride the anti-incumbency wave against the Shivara Singh Chouhan-led BJP government to power after the three terms.

The Leader of Opposition in the Andhra Pradesh Assembly broke his "yatra" on October 25 after he was attacked at the Visakhapatnam airport and was on rest on the advice of doctors.

The peeved union minister on Sunday said he would apprise BJP chief Amit Shah of the "humiliation" he had suffered at the hands of Nitish Kumar.

In a series of tweets, the senior Congress leader slammed the government for allegedly seeking funds from the RBI despite claiming that the Centre's fiscal math was correct.

Addressing his first rally for Chhattisgarh polls, PM Modi says Congress has exposed its “hypocrisy” by questioning the arrests of “urban Maoists”.

On being ignored by the BJP, the 78-year-old said justice was denied to seniors like him. 'I won’t die suffocating at home. I will take to the battlefield and die like a martyr,' he said.

One of the four people arrested carried a .32 bore revolver belonging to his brother.