Politics

While releasing the ruling BJP's Lok Sabha polls manifesto last year, its senior leader Rajnath Singh had said the saffron party was committed towards implementing a Uniform Civil Code in the country.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) stormed back to power in Delhi by winning an impressive 62 seats, while the BJP could work its magic only in the remaining eight seats in the national capital.

Before Narendra Modi became the Prime Minister, top foreign dignitaries visiting India also used to go to places like Hyderabad and Bengaluru, NCP chief Sharad Pawar told reporters in Mumbai.

MLAs Umesh Katti, who had openly expressed his displeasure over not being inducted into the ministry, and Shankar Patil Munenakoppa were among those who had met at Shettar's residence, said reports.

The Samajwadi Party chief had recently claimed that he had received a threat call and a message from a BJP leader after a youth shouted 'Jai Shri Ram' at one of the gatherings he was addressing.

Sitharaman said the Centre was moving ahead with the spirit of cooperative federalism, adding the devolution of funds is decided by the Finance Commission and not by the Finance Ministry.

Neeraj Kumar took potshot at former Bihar chief minister's political heir, saying Tejashwi Yadav is aptly following his father Lalu Prasad Yadav's footstep, making 'fraudulent' investment in hi-tech buses, in place of plots of land.

Delivering a lecture in Ahmedabad, Mohan Bhagwat also said that even political parties who are not in power are also agitating.

Senior PDP leader Shah Mohammad Tantray, who was elected to the state assembly on a PDP ticket from the Poonch-Haveli seat in 2014, said Article 370 had become a 'dead stock' as a result of nearly three dozen amendments during the Congress rule.

The protesters alleged that the minister stood for everything that Ambedkar had fought against and therefore his garlanding of the statue was tantamount to 'defiling it'.

Rajeev Shukla added that his party would introspect on why it failed to get a single seat in the polls, results of which were announced on February 11. He also rejected speculation of a 'secret alliance' between the Congress and AAP.

The ruling party's retort came almost immediately after Gandhi, while paying homage to the 40 slain CRPF personnel killed in the attack, asked who benefitted the most from the attack and what was the outcome of the inquiry into it.

The father-son duo of Ratan Singh Ajnala and Amarpal Singh Bony was expelled from SAD, along with Ranjit Singh Brahmpura and Sewa Singh Sekhwan, for "anti-party activities" in 2018.

This is the third time in recent months that West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar has been unable to attend a convocation. He had been forced to leave Jadavpur University and Calcutta University’s convocations over his pro-CAA stand.

Former chief minister Devendra Fadnavis latched on two articles published in a Maharashtra Congress magazine, which are critical of the Hindutva ideologue, to ask why the Sena is feeling so 'helpless'.

TMC secretary general Partha Chatterjee on Tuesday said he will be happy if former leader of Maoist-backed People's Committee Against Police Atrocities Chhatradhar Mahato joins the party.