Politics

Surendra Jain told News18 that Sunday’s rally will create awareness “that if a bill is introduced in Parliament, nobody will have the strength to counter it”.

Speaking to News18, Telangana BJP chief K Laxman said no government can be formed in Telangana without the saffron party’s support.

The BJP has been making consistent inroads in the north east since 2014 and Mizoram is the last remaining stronghold of the Congress.

Addressing a press conference in Delhi after the Calcutta High Court denied permission for Friday’s rally, Shah said the yatras were not cancelled, only postponed. “We will do it soon,” he said.

Let us look at statistics from past elections to extrapolate how electorate might have voted this time around.

In an interview with News18, Jaitley termed Congress president as a "pathological liar" and said the charges that the Congress leader was making was only a work of his imagination.

Four political families of the Kashmir Valley—the Abdullahs, Muftis, Lones and Ansaris—are trying hard to prove to each other that they have risen on Kashmir’s political landscape without a godfather.

The Congress, he asserted, would stand up to it, continue to fight against it and never compromise.

Shah slammed Rahul Gandhi and the Congress party for "worrying and growing restless for the 40 lakhs intruders" the BJP government had identified after assuming power in Assam.

The exercise, called 'Zero-Waiting' or 'Queue-less', was a grand success due to the coordinated efforts of the voters, the vice president of the local branch of the Young Mizo Association (YMA), Lalthlana Ngente, said.

The Telanagna Rashtra Samithi (TRS) government's 'free saree distribution scheme' has boosted production since last one year.

Chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan said the decision to "stop" the protest in Sabarimala was because the BJP had got an inkling of the secular minds of the people in the state.

Mizoram recorded 75 per cent voter turnout which was 83.41 per cent in 2013. In the 2008 assembly polls, it was 82.35 per cent, the poll panel said.

Modi, who often refers to Gandhi as "naamdar" (dynast), was addressing a rally ahead of the December 7 elections in this Rajasthan town.

Addressing a function in Gwalior on Saturday, the governor reportedly said he dissolved the state Assembly as he did not want to go down in history as a "dishonest man".

Governor Satya Pal Malik repeated his earlier claim that PDP leader Mehbooba Mufti and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah made no “serious” efforts to get in touch with him.