Politics

Balasaheb Thorat was referring to 'Knowing RSS', a special lecture to be given by All India Sampark Pramukh of RSS, Aniruddha Deshpande, in Pune on Saturday for the students of journalism in Pune.

Prakash Javadekar said that because the Congress disappeared from the contest, there was a direct fight between the BJP and the AAP.

Pillai had in a press conference last year said that everybody is asking how the three wives of the Congress candidate in Thiruvananthapuram died. 'But neither the BJP nor I wish to ask that question,' he had said.

The Opposition Congress has hit out at Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa for appointing Singh, a businessman with mining interests, as Forest Minister.

Asked about the ongoing agitations against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), the Union Home Minister said everyone has a right to peaceful protest but violence is not justified.

The AAP returned to power following a historic mandate, bagging 62 of the 70 assembly seats.

kanhaiya Kumar is organsing a state-wide "Jan Gan Man Yatra" which began last month and is scheduled to conclude a fortnight later with a rally in the state capital of Patna.

The Aam Aadmi Party is hoping to ride on a possible anti-incumbency wave against the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government, and capitalise on a weakened Akali Dal to emerge triumphant in 2022.

Pakistani-origin singer Adnan Sami, who is now an Indian citizen, was involved in a political debate over his Padma Shri recognition with many criticising his father's past as a Pakistani Air Force pilot.

The Aam Aadmi Party on Tuesday appeared to be heading back to power for a second term in Delhi, with the party leading in 63 of the total 70 seats, and the BJP ahead in seven seats, according to the Election Commission figures.

The Trinamool Congress supremo said the saffron party got a "befitting reply" for torturing students and women in the national capital and AAP's win in Delhi is a victory of democracy.

In a bid to catapult itself onto the national political stage, the Aam Aadmi Party had launched a country-wide drive in January 2014 to enroll one crore members.

The incumbent party picked up 62 of the 70 assembly seats on offer, while the BJP won eight and the Congress maintained its 2015 tally of zero.

Stating that he had no objection if someone embraces Christianity on his own, RSS general secretary Suresh 'Bhaiyyaji' Joshi said that forcible religious conversion of people should be considered a criminal offence.

BJP’s dependence on PM Modi as its main vote-catcher in Delhi was used by AAP to drive home the message that the elections in Delhi were not national and were being held to elect a provincial government.

Ahead of the assembly polls, the Delhi CEO office had appealed to voters to get their names checked and verified from the electoral roll.