Politics

In a Hindi tweet, hours after the statement made by Priyanka Gandhi, the CM's Office' through its Twitter handle @myogioffice said, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has worn saffron for public service.

Uttar Pradesh Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya said it seemed by Priyanka Gandhi's behaviour that the Congress has become a "danga karao party" and it cannot tolerate the peaceful atmosphere and development of UP.

The BJP blamed Singh and the Congress for "spreading lies" through their claim that the incident of police personnel vandalising properties in Jabalpur, as seen in the video, had actually happened in Uttar Pradesh.

The incident occurred at Kannur University where the governor was inaugurating the 80th session of the IHC and responding to questions on the amended Citizenship Act and Kashmir.

Reacting to the charges in BJP's 'aarop patra', Arvind Kejriwal said one should keep his critics close to himself, referring to the words of poet Kabir Das — 'nindak niyare rakhiye'.

The pick-up van drivers said they were called at the residence of Lalu Prasad on Thursday evening from Meethapur vegetable market. They were told that they had to deliver something. The goods were loaded and they were sent at the residence of Chandrika Ra...

Queried on his chances of taking oath on December 30, Pawar said, 'I have clarified my stand on this issue. I will follow the directives of the party leadership.'

Officials aware of the deliberations said the Delhi Police top brass was of the view that law and order situation in the national capital was well under control and that the force was prepared for the elections.

The Union minister for petroleum and natural gas also appealed to the people of Odisha not to get carried away with the "misleading" campaign by the opposition parties against the CAA.

Counting of votes was underway at a number centres across the state. Polling for the 151 civic bodies and 2,840 wards in which 10,162 candidates were in fray took place on December 21.

The JMM coalition with the Congress, RJD and JVM lost badly to the BJP in the general elections. But Soren's campaign all along had been aimed at softening anti-JMM voters in the urban and upper caste dominated seats.

He said that he has been demanding restoration of land rights to people of 27 villages in Jatni and shifting of a dumping yard from Daruthenga village in the outskirts of Bhubaneswar.

Parliamentarians of Jagan Mohan Reddy's YSR Congress Party had backed the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) in both the Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha.

The JMM asked if the BJP wanted people to stand in queues to prove if they are Indians, as he drew a parallel to what had happened after demonetisation.

As the Congress-JMM-RJD alliance steers closer to victory with 49 seats, the fortunes don't look good for the BJP which is currently leading on 22 seats.

According to the Election Commission, in Jharkhand’s Bishrampur, independent candidate Naresh Prasad Singh is leading over Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Ramchandra Chandravanshi by 299 votes.