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The SSP said the incident occurred at village Ratta Khera where Badal was busy in a public meeting during his election campaign.

Sanjeev Balyan, Union minister of state for water resources, was a little-known BJP leader till September 2013, when he was booked for violating prohibitory orders during the Muzaffarnagar riots. Q&A

Amid criticism of his foreign tours during polls, Rahul Gandhi is unlikely to travel to China on a visit that was expected to take place next week.

The ruling Congress in Uttarakhand on Tuesday accused BJP of being devoid of issues and indulging invcheap politics by hurling "baseless charges" at Chief Minister Harish Rawat.

After forums sprang up in support of Deepa Jayakumar, the niece of former Tamil Nadu chief minister J Jayalalithaa, more such outfits in the state have appealed to her to take the political plunge.

The split in the Samajwadi party (SP) raises seminal questions about the future of not only its major players Mulayam and son Akhilesh Yadav, but of democratic politics in the key state of UP.

AAP National Convenor and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday claimed that his "honest" party does not have money to fight the upcoming assembly elections in Punjab and Goa.

Congress leader KC Venugopal on Sunday said the controversial remarks made by BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh, was against the recent Supreme Court judgement banning seeking votes in the name of religion.

Mayawati convened a meeting of senior BSP leaders and party candidates for the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections to issue necessary directives for going to polls.

Terming the demand of opposition parties to defer the Budget Session as "anti-people", Union Minister M Venkaiah Naidu on Friday said the Union Budget is for the country and would not be state specific.

Giving caste-wise details of the shortlisted candidates, she had said 87 tickets will be given to Dalits, 97 to Muslims and 106 to OBCs.

With her party eyeing an alliance with Akhilesh Yadav's Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, Congress CM face Sheila Dikshit has offered to opt out of the race.

Former Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on Tuesday said the Trinamool Congress has no moral right to speak against black money when its MPs were arrested in Rose Valley Chit fund scam.

Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti on Monday rejected the opposition demand for setting up of an inquiry commission into the recent unrest in the Valley even as she blamed NC and Congress for sowing the "seeds" of the turmoil in the state.

Questioning Prime Minister Narendra Modi over his assurance to people that problems due to demonetisation will end after December 30, Rahul Gandhi on Monday said the "economic lockdown" will continue to hurt the poor, farmers and workers the most.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over 105 deaths across the country allegedly due to demonetisation and advised him to at least "condole the deaths".