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The decision was taken in a meeting chaired by UPCC Chief Raj Babbar in Lucknow on Monday, after which all district units of Congress were notified about the call for protest.

INLD chief and Jat strongman Om Prakash Chautala declared on Sunday that he supports opposition unity and wants Mayawati to become the Prime Minister.

Home Minister Rajnath Singh said all the police forces are like civilised units and they should never do anything that will label them as "brutal." One should know how to behave during crowd control and similar duties and should always know how much and w...

The TDP tied up with Congress only after Telangana Rashtra Samiti chief K Chandrasekhar Rao spurned his offer for a tie-up, Chandrababu Naidu said.

Congress leader Randeep Surjewala said alliance for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls would happen on a state by state basis.

Soon after finance minister Arun Jaitley announced the cut, Shah tweeted his response in which he also welcomed the decision.

Technically, for the Congress, the support of BSP, SP or Left may not be necessary in electoral dynamics of these three states but failure to get into some sort of understanding with these non-BJP parties creates a negative perception about mahagathbandha...

Dubbing the Modi government as a "symbol of cruelty" on farmers, Congress spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the time has come for the government to answer questions of those who feed the nation.

The BSP chief left the door ajar for a tie up for 2019 polls and Congress reciprocated in equal measure by expressing hope of sorting out contentious issues.

Responding to reports of police action against farmers, Adityanath said everyone has the right to go to Delhi but no one has the right to take law in their hands. He urged the ryots to be patient till talks with the high-level delegation were over.

Cases had been registered under Indian Penal Code sections related to promoting enmity between different groups, intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace and statements conducing to public mischief.

Samajwadi Party's national secretary Rajendra Chaudhary said that it is ready to go into the assembly election in Madhya Pradesh with full strength. It will contest around two dozen assembly constituencies in the state.

Claiming that Kejriwal's support base among Delhi'ites has "declined", the BJP chief said it was now "nothing" since the party stormed to power by a massive victory in the 2015 assembly election.

In a scathing attack on the Congress, the Prime Minister said that the 125-year-old party is in tatters. “You need a microscope to find existence of the Congress these days.”

Alleging that the Congress chief was misleading people, which will be of no use, UP government spokesperson Sidharth Nath Singh said Gandhi needs to come out with details to substantiate his claims about the then UPA government's decisions on the Rafale d...

BJP Tamil Nadu unit President Tamilisai Soundararjan's husband Dr P Soundarajan, has also nominated Modi for Nobel, a press release from the state chief's office said.