Politics

Patel has decided to hit the road across India to campaign against the BJP in full swing. He will extensively campaign for his close aides who are contesting on Congress tickets.

Chandrashekhar Azad claimed that Mayawati was being 'misled' by Satish Chandra Mishra, her general secretary and Brahmin face of the BSP.

The Patwa Toli community have been long-time supporters of the BJP. However, reservation demands and the recent murder of a member could change the political dynamics.

Congress is likely to field Ashok Tanwar, Deepender Singh Hooda, Kumari Selja, Naveen Jindal, Kuldeep Bishnoi and Shruti Chaudhary to contest the polls.

Declaring that the Jats will oppose the BJP in all constituencies of UP, the Samiti said that it felt cheated by the Narendra Modi-led government for not accepting its reservation demand and implementing 10% reservation for the upper class.

The Tamil Nadu chief minister also said on Tuesday that the combined vote share of AIADMK-BJP alliance will be decisive and hence, the coalition will emerge victorious in the southern state in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.

Six BSP candidates had emerged winners in the state Assembly election held last year.

Rahul Gandhi also promised changes in the legal system to ensure that loan defaults by farmers constitute civil offence and not a criminal one.

It’s important to note the entire seizure in the first 20 days is more than 14 crores whereas back in 2014, Rs 13.99 crore was seized, according to the figures compiled by the chief electoral officer of Madhya Pradesh.

Nitish Kumar slammed Shahnawaz Hussain's Bhagalpur ticket comment by calling it "highly irresponsible." Nitish claims that it was his support that got Hussain elected from Bhagalpur in the first place.

Tej Pratap, who had last week resigned as the mentor of the RJD’s youth wing, confirmed that his decision was prompted by strain in ties with younger brother and RJD chief Tejashwi Yadav.

The BJP has fielded ex-minister Jashabhai Barad, Karadiya Rajput, in the bypoll, while the Congress is yet to announce its candidate for this seat in Gir-Somnath district.

SDF supremo and Chief Minister Pawan Kumar Chamling had asserted in 2014 that he would resign if the two communities were not allotted reserved seats before the 2019 Assembly polls.

Apart from Mahajan, former minister Mahendra Hardiya and MLA Akash Vijayvargiya, son of BJP general secretary Kailash Vijayvargiya, also remained absent from the event.

The BJP leader coined new names for the rival political parties, describing the SP as 'Samaapt Party', the BSP as 'Bilkul Samaapt Party' and the RLD as 'Roj Ludhaktaa Dal'.

The Left government in Kerala has fielded CPI's P.P. Suneer as their candidate to take on Rahul Gandhi.