Politics

The BJP will come to power with a 2/3rd majority in Uttar Pradesh, party national president Amit Shah told Network18 in an exclusive interview, adding that the voters were smart enough to see through Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s attempts to use the Sam...

Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi on Sunday that his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was an asset to the party.

VK Sasikala had nursed ambitions to take the next big plunge after getting elected as the AIADMK’s General Secretary to become the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister. And then the Jallikattu row erupted.

Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav will hold a joint road show in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday.

Congress on Friday demanded registration of an FIR against Meghalaya and Anurachal Pradesh Governor V Shanmuganathan in view of serious charges over his conduct towards women being levelled against him.

Telugu actor-turned-politician Pawan Kalyan, who has been raising the issue of Special Category Status (SCS) for Andhra Pradesh, on Friday found fault with the state government after it denied permission for a proposed protest on the issue.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has shot off a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to defer presentation of the Union Budget till the completion of poll process in five states.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday said "change" will happen in the state irrespective of whoever comes along with BJP.

Bhagwant Mann, AAP’s MP from Sangrur, chairman of the party’s campaign committee and the biggest show stopper after Arvind Kejriwal is set to take on Punjab’s Dy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal in the politically significant and high-profile constituency of...

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday took a swipe at Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal for promising to buy land in US and Canada to settle Punjabi farmers there if voted to power.

The Election Commission (EC) on Tuesday reiterated that political parties cannot seek votes in the name of religion, caste etc. as it will amount to a "corrupt practice sufficient to annul the election" under the electoral laws.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may have asked his party members to desist from nepotism, but the BJP, while releasing the second list of candidates for UP Assembly polls, seems to have done otherwise.

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury on Sunday claimed that the BJP will taste another electoral defeat in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

The prospect alliance between the Samajwadi Party and Congress seemed all but over after Congress did not show interest in the 99 seats offered by the SP; but with Sonia Gandhi stepping in there still is some hope.

ND Tiwari had attempted a ticket for his son from SP in Uttar Pradesh but when he failed in his efforts he turned his focus to BJP.

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Tuesday said his "assumption" is that some counterfeit currency in circulation has returned to banks and might have become a legal tender following demonetisation of high value bills last November.