Politics

In a huge blow to the AIADMK, the Karnataka HC on Tuesday denied bail to Jayalalithaa in the Rs 66.65 crore disproportionate assets case.

TMC also made a scathing attack on PM Modi for not trusting the state administration in probing the incident which has suspected terror links.

"People of Maharashtra should be freed from Congress. I am fully confident that it will be a Congress-free Maharashtra," M Venkaiah Naidu said.

Launching a personal attack, Modi said that he was ashamed at the way NCP chief Sharad Pawar was using Shivaji's name for politics.

Modi said that the government has not been giving due and necessary importance to develop tribal areas like Gondia.

Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) VS Sampath said that INLD had informed the EC under the law that Chautala will be a star campaigner.

Mentioning the recently launched Jan Dhan Yojna, she said the BJP's policies and programmes are good.

When asked about the demand for a separate Vidarbha state, Pawar said, the NCP had always stood for an undivided Maharashtra.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and the SGPC say the Bill is an attempt to divide the Sikhs to win votes.

The NCP leader asserted there was no question of law catching up with him in the irrigation scam because he had done no wrong.

Modi wrote, "I look forward to working with President Obama to unite the people of our nations in their quest for peace, prosperity and security."

"BJP has always stood behind farmers and poor. We have plans to provide them employment, education, housing and health," the Union Minister said.

Ex-Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's wife Ameeta, who is making her electoral debut in Maharashtra Assembly polls, and late BJP leader Gopinath Munde's daughter Pankaja Munde are among the key women legislators testing their luck this time

Obama is also hosting a private dinner, which will be the first opportunity for both the leaders to interact with each other.

"Modi appeared to have been carried away. People of India elected a prime minister to represent India. But he has lived up to the words of his own mentor, LK Advani, of being a very good event promoter, event manager," Anand Sharma said.

Panneerselvam was sworn-in as the Chief Minister to head the 31-member Council of Ministers by Tamil Nadu Governor K Rosaiah on Monday.