Politics

The ongoing Assembly election in Uttar Pradesh is to end dynastic and caste-based politics, BJP chief Amit Shah said on Thursday in Amethi, the pocket borough of the Nehru-Gandhi family.

Union Minister Kiren Rijiju on Thursday endorsed Army Chief Bipin Rawat's statement on tough action against those creating hurdles during anti-terror operations in Kashmir, saying country's interest is supreme.

Drugs were the main issue this time as is the economic collapse of the state.

AIADMK General Secretary VK Sasikala, convicted in a disproportionate assets case by the Supreme Court, on Tuesday said her thoughts will continue to remain with the party even from inside the jail.

Jayalalithaa's niece Deepa Jayakumar joins O Panneerselvam camp.

A signature campaign to turn 'Veda Nilayam', the official residence of late AIADMK supremo J Jayalalithaa into a memorial, has elicited a huge response from party cadres and the public.

Addressing a rally in Kanpur, BSP chief Mayawati slammed BJP saying the saffron party has lost its sleep after reports of BSP's success in first phase of UP polls.

S B Navrang, a former BJP IT cell member, Ravi Ranjan, whose Twitter bio lists him as an RSS cadre, and Shishir Tripathi also a former BJP social media team member have been appointed as consultants by the ministry of home affairs.

Meanwhile, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh will address a rally in Etawah on Monday.

Launching a sharp attack on critics of demonetisation, especially Uddhav Thackeray, Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Sunday said if the Shiv Sena president too was "adversely affected" due to the note ban policy.

Terming demonetisation as the "biggest scam of 2016", former Finance Minister P Chidambaram has said the country is likely to grow by 6-6.5 per cent in 2016-17, much lower than what have been predicted by the CSO and RBI, due to the impact of note ban.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday urged the Uttarakhand electorate to vote out the "tainted" Congress government that sullied 'devbhoomi's' image turning it into a "lootbhoomi" and "ruined" the state due to its lack of vision to tap its full potentia...

The first two phases of polling in western Uttar Pradesh will decide the electoral fortune of several lesser known political parties representing certain castes and sub-castes whose votes become crucial in cow belt politics.

Distancing himself from the controversy - over the exodus of Hindu families - which he exclusively created, BJP MP from Kairana Hukum Singh on Saturday claimed that he never raised the issue of exodus of any particular community.

Acting Tamil Nadu Chief Minister O. Panneerselvam on Saturday started a signature campaign to convert the Poes Garden residence of the late J. Jayalalithaa into a memorial.

BJP on Saturday hit back at Rahul Gandhi for his remarks against the Prime Minister, saying the Congress leader "behaves as per his standards" and it does not expect anything better from him.