Politics

As highways and shipping minster in the first Narendra Modi government, Nitin Gadkari was credited for smooth construction and operation of bridges, flyovers and expressways.

Nitish Kumar, known as a tough negotiator, has opened a front for bargaining for possibly a second cabinet berth. But worse could be the potential consequences on the 243-member strong Bihar assembly.

While O Panneerselvam was trying hard to bargain for a post for his son, chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswamy wanted his loyalist and senior Rajya Sabha member R Vaithilingam to secure a Cabinet berth.

Among the surprise picks in the cabinet were BJP president Amit Shah and former foreign secretary S Jaishankar. Apart from Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Smriti Irani, DV Sadananda Gowda, Nirmala Sitharaman and Ram Vilas Paswan were also sworn-in as...

Meanwhile, Nirmala Sitharaman, who served as defence minister in the previous government, is also tipped to be inducted into Modi's new ministry.

The meeting will be held a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his cabinet will be sworn-in in the forecourt of Rashtrapati Bhavan.

BJP MLA Manjinder S Sirsa, in the Twitter poll, gave options for or against Arvind Kejriwal. As many as 70 per cent favoured the Delhi chief minister in his survey, while 30 per cent voted against him.

According to sources, Modi urged Jaitley to reconsider his decision to not be a part of the new Cabinet.

Mamata Banerjee had earlier announced that she will not attend Modi's swearing-in on Thursday, alleging the BJP was using the ceremony "to score political points".

Sachin Pilot told reporters that this was not the first and the last election and that his party will again go among the masses and win people's heart.

Jayant Patil asserted that NCP lawmakers have full faith in party president Sharad Pawar's leadership and none of them will switch over to the BJP.

In the recently concluded Lok Sabha polls, the BJP won 18 out of 42 seats in West Bengal, which was a multi-fold increase from its tally of only two seats in 2014 elections.

The NCP-Congress combine bagged only five of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra where the ruling BJP-Shiv Sena alliance's tally stood at an impressive 41.

Tamil superstar Rajinikanth hailed Narendra Modi as a ‘charismatic leader’ and gave him credit for BJP’s landslide victory this election.

The Director General of Vigilance and Enforcement department, Damodar Gautam Sawang, is likely to be made the state’s next deputy general of police.

As many as 10 Rajya Sabha seats will fall vacant in Uttar Pradesh in 2020 and the BJP's huge majority in the state means it can win nine of those.