Politics

Opposition parties blaming EVMs for their poll loss underlines their desperation and lack of issues against the BJP, its national president Amit Shah said on Saturday, noting that EVMs were never questioned when they won.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) put on a strong show on Thursday, winning assembly bypolls in Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, and Assam.

In Delhi, where municipal polls are around the corner, the AAP faced humiliation as the BJP scored a handsome victory with a margin of 14,000 votes from the nearest rival.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal responded to media reports of the Election Commission’s open challenge to show Electronic Voting Machines can be hacked, questioning their credibility.

After the UP victory, there is obviously an attempt by the alternative forces to at least know one another's mind on the current political situation.

The repoll ordered by Election Commission (EC) in 38 polling stations of Srinagar Lok Sabha constituency will test the security arrangements on Thursday as all these are in Budgam district, the worst-hit by violence during voting on Sunday.

By-elections in Jammu and Kashmir's Srinagar Lok Sabha seat turned bloody on Sunday after large-scale clashes were reported between protesters and security forces, killing seven people and injuring more than 100 security personnel.

"Even if we fail to get any support from the Centre, we will ensure that the farmers are freed of their mounting debts, for which the state machinery has already been set into motion," he said.

A day after BJP leader Tarun Vijay sparked a row with a racist comment against south Indians, Congress leader P Chidambaram took to Twitter to criticise the former Rajya Sabha MP.

State BJP president Dilip Ghosh said, “Why Mamata Banerjee was quiet when former TMC Madan Mitra was seen with a sword during a Muharram procession. I want to know what action the party has taken against Mitra.”

After surprising most of his detractors with a popular but economically balanced farm loan waiver, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is now making all the right noises with regards to educational reforms.

Shiv Sena MP Ravindra Gaikwad, who has been 'grounded' by Air India for allegedly hitting its staffer with slippers, wrote a letter to Civil Aviation Minister conveying his 'regret for the unfortunate incident'.

Documents accessed by CNN-News18 reveal that AAP wanted the taxpayers' money to foot the bill of the eminent lawyer Ram Jethmalani defending the CM in adefamation suit filed by finance minister Arun Jaitley.

The BJP on Monday announced the second list of candidates for the MCD polls to be held on April 23.

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Saturday ruled out bringing a Spain-like Historical Memory Law to erase all remnants of the "humiliating British rule" in the state as proposed by Manpreet Badal.

The crackdown on illegal slaughter houses is aimed at making them compliant with the court guidelines, UP minister Siddharth Nath Singh said on Saturday, and questioned why the Akhilesh Yadav government sat on the issue for three years.