Politics

The party chief’s denial came just ahead of a meeting of Congress chief ministers with Gandhi to not only discuss his decision to quit but also brainstorm over the dismal performance of the grand old party.

BJP state president K Laxman demanded that chief minister K Chandrashekhar Rao disclose details of talks with his Andhra Pradesh counterpart Jagan Mohan Reddy regarding sharing of water between the twin Telugu states.

Gandhi was also urged by leaders of the Delhi unit to reconsider his decision to step down as party chief but the former did not show any signs of relenting, a senior Delhi Congress leader present in the meeting said.

Markam's elevation comes at a time when the party is coming to terms with its debacle in the Lok Sabha polls in which it could win just two parliamentary seats from the state despite coming to power with a massive mandate in the December assembly poll.

Chouhan also accused KCR of indulging in family and caste politics, which according to Chauhan won’t last longer. He said, there is no room for such family and caste politics any longer.

Raising the matter during the Zero Hour, Saugata Roy said it was a "cold-blooded murder" of 24-year-old Tabrez Ansari as police held the youth, who had sustained severe head injuries, in custody for four days.

Turning the tables on the grand old party after its leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury said Modi can't diminish his party's 'high' stature, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said 'the higher you become, the happier I will be.'

Shah, who is visiting the state for the first time after taking charge of the home ministry, will make a detailed security review of the Amarnath Yatra and address a party gathering followed by meetings with the state administration.

PM Modi said that the Emergency was a blot on the democracy that will never fade. He said the NDA was given a chance to rule in 2014 as the people thought it was a way of escaping from the UPA regime.

The Prime Minister also castigated the Congress leadership on Uniform Civil Code and Triple Talaaq issues.

Jaishankar, a career diplomat and a former foreign secretary, was sworn in as a Cabinet minister along with other members of the government on May 30.

Uttar Pradesh BJP spokesperson Harish Srivastava said the SP-BSP alliance was an opportunistic coming together of the two parties just for the Lok Sabha polls.

Both state-run telecom firms Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) have been reporting losses since the time they were asked to pay auction-determined spectrum price in 2010 for all the circles where they operate...

After admitting the petition filed by Congress chief whip in the Assembly Ashwin Kotwal, a division bench of Justices SR Brahmbhatt and AP Thaker issued notices to Trivedi and Thakor, and kept further hearing on June 27.

The YSR Congress Party government on Saturday took possession of the conference hall, even as the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) termed it 'vendetta politics'.

Moily, a former Union minister, was the joint candidate of the ruling Congress-JDS coalition. He was defeated by BJP's BN Bache Gowda in Chikkaballapur by 1,82,110 votes.