Politics

Rahul Gandhi interacted with state party leaders in New Delhi for two hours on Monday before holding one-on-one closed door meetings to discuss leadership issues.

If there is a message in here for the BJP, there is also one for the Congress – you, too, are dispensable in a federal front.

The chief minister's secretariat, in a press release, has contended Gadkari's claim and said the state government was providing all possible assistance to ensure timely completion of projects.

The IAS officers' association said they were worried about verbal assaults, threats, intimidation and attack on their dignity, respect.

Much is being read into the meet as the minister for disability and backward classes welfare is at loggerheads with his alliance partner, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and has been targeting the state government.

Congress stalwart R Ramalinga Reddy's daughter Sowmya Reddy has wrested Jayanagar back after 10 years from the BJP.

Kejriwal claimed that over the last four months, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government ministers have made several attempts to reach out to bureaucrats and end the deadlock.

There are charges of graft against K M Mani, K Babu, C N Balakrishnan, M K Muneer , Abdu Rabb, V S Sivakumar, K P Mohanan, Adoor Prakash and K P Kunjalikutty.

In 2009, BJP and JD(U) contested together sharing 25-15 seats. While BJP won 12 out of 15 and JD(U) won 20, Kumar later broke the alliance in 2014 over Narendra Modi’s candidature as PM. Following this, both the parties contested separately.

The decision to field Jose was taken at a party meeting in Pala near Kottayam hours after the KM Mani-led party re-entered the UDF alliance following a two-year gap.

Togadia said he would announce the new outfit on June 24 and start a campaign to push for the construction of the temple at the disputed Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi site.

The Rashtriya Lok Samata Party also disapproved of JD(U) assertion that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is the "face" of the NDA in Bihar. RLSP working president Nagamani asserted that Bihar assembly polls must be fought under party chief Upendra Kushwaha's l...

Ahmed Patel’s tweet came a couple of hours after Pranab Mukherjee’s daughter and Congress leader Sharmistha Mukherjee publicly urged her father not to go through with the visit to RSS headquarters.

JD(S) on Tuesday issued a press release to say that the party candidate and workers would extend their support for Congress candidate Soumya Reddy.

He also claimed that several BJP MPs, including top leaders, were planning to change their constituencies. “I plan to follow up the tweet with a letter to BJP chief now. Very soon we would also prepare a list of BJP lies,” he said.

Nath said that the Congress found that around 12 per cent of the voters were false, while the difference between the two parties was around 6-7 per cent in the 2013 election.