Politics

The BJP’s blistering attack on the “failures” of HD Kumaraswamy government have been blunted by the Aero India controversy.

The former UP chief minister said the BJP government had 'suddenly fallen in love with Dalits' as elections were round the corner.

Somnath Chatterjee was defeated only once in 1984 by Mamata Banerjee, who incidentally came to limelight with this win. Chatterjee was the leader of the CPI(M) in Lok Sabha from 1989 to 2004.

Khurshid, who has been the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee chief twice, asserted that parties should not write off the Congress in the state and it was important that it is part of an alliance with the Samajwadi Party (SP) and the Bahujan Samaj Party (BS...

Rajasthan BJP MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja said this as a reaction to state Congress chief Sachin Pilot's statement that Rahul Gandhi had learnt to visit temples from his grandmother Indira Gandhi.

According to the analysis published on PRS Legislative Research website, the monsoon session for Lok Sabha has shown 110% productivity, while Rajya Sabha has been 66% productive.

DMK chief M Karunanidhi died on August 7 after a brief illness, he served as the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu for five times but was never a member of Parliament.

AAP MP Sanjay Singh said party will neither back NDA nominee Harivansh Narayan Singh nor support opposition candidate BK Hariprasad in elections to the post of Rajya Sabha deputy chairman.

The RLD on July 13 launched the ‘Pol Khol, Dhava Bol’ (expose, attack) campaign. Chaudhary, who has for all practical purposes taken over the reins of his party from his father, has been the face of this campaign.

The party has three lawmakers in the upper house, including Naresh Gujral, whose name was also in contention. The BJP-led NDA lacks a majority in the Rajya Sabha.

Leader of Opposition and senior Congress member Ghulam Nabi Azad said there could be no compromise with security, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the country.

Chowdhury accused Mamata Banerjee of trying to "finish" and "eliminate" the Congress in West Bengal on one hand and seeking the party's support for the next Lok Sabha elections on the other.

Expressing confidence, Dinakaran said he was ready for simultaneous polls in December-January as his party had started preparing for the elections since April this year.

A combative Shah earlier told reporters that he would definitely go to Kolkata on August 11 and dared the Mamata Banerjee government to arrest him after his party leaders claimed that the local police had yet not given permission to his event.

In the first BJP parliamentary party meeting in the ongoing Monsoon Session, Modi said the motion brought by the opposition underscored its political immaturity and lack of understanding and substance.

There has been no Cabinet meeting for almost a month and all major decisions are put on hold. The reason — "Aashada" Masa, which is considered inauspicious for any good thing.