Politics

Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) president Shivpal Singh Yadav said that there is a need to be cautious of the SP=BSP alliance. He alleged that the alliance is betraying all sections of the society.

The chief electoral officer of Madhya Pradesh said a complaint had been received against Thakur and the matter was being looked into.

Rajinikanth is yet to formally announce his political party, with his fan club Rajini Makkal Mandram acting as a pre-cursor to the party. The club has already applied for a trademark for a television channel, a staple for major political parties in Tamil...

Sadhvi Pragya Thakur came down heavily on the late ATS chief, who was awarded the Ashok Chakra for his bravery in facing the Mumbai terror attack, and alleged that she was tortured and abused by him in ways that were “unbearable”.

The BJP leader said he had no bitterness towards Naveen Patnaik, whose comments about him made the Odisha chief minister appear like a school boy rather than a seasoned politician.

If you want to see a strong government, look at Delhi; if you want to see a helpless government, see Karnataka, Modi said at a rally in Karnataka's Bagalkot.

Mayawati also cautioned, opposition leaders to not cross the line of decency and not give BJP an excuse to exploit public sentiment to hide its weaknesses.

The Congress accused the EC of "bias" after it suspended Karnataka cadre IAS officer Mohammed Mohsin for what the poll panel said was "dereliction of duty" with regard to "SPG protectees".

The Congress had suspended Jagmeet Singh Brar in 2014 following his remarks against the then party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi. He had asked the mother-son duo to take a two-year break in the wake of the party’s worst-ever debac...

Mayawati, who is also facing a 48-hour censure over her appeal to Muslim voters, said free and fair elections were impossible if the EC continued being 'biased' towards the BJP.

When asked about how she deemed Digvijaya Singh as her competitor, Thakur said that the one who remained on the path of ‘adharma’ could never be strong enough.

High drama unfolded in Andhra Pradesh on April 11 with reports of glitches in EVMs at several polling booths and Naidu calling for re-election.

Das was among 36 former militants of the KLO who were hired by the Mamata Banerjee-led government as home guard volunteers in July 2018 - the first such initiative to rehabilitate the former militants in the area.

Stating that the poll code clearly barred everyone from using religion or caste during electioneering, the EC said FIRs had been registered against the SP leader under several sections of the IPC and Representation of People Act.

The absence of any organisational structure at the grassroots level as well as a lack of awareness about party leaders other than Kamal Haasan have left his Makkal Needhi Maiam a distant fourth behind the DMK, AIADMK and TTV Dhinakaran's AMMK.

Sidhu made the controversial appeal while campaigning in Bihar’s Katihar, a day after the Election Commission took action against Yogi Adityanath, Mayawati, Maneka Gandhi and Azam Khan for making similar communally charged remarks.