Raj Babbar

A court here awarded two-year imprisonment to Bollywood actor and Congress leader Raj Babbar in a case involving the assault of a polling officer. Babbar was convicted for voluntarily causing hurt to deter a public servant from performing his duty and three other offences. The court also imposed a fine of Rs 8,500 on him. The polling officer had lodged an FIR against Babbar during an election in May 1996. The complaint was lodged at the Wazirganj police station here. At that time, Babbar was contesting from the Samajwadi Party. Babbar was present in the courtroom when the verdict was announced.

Congress leader Raj Babbar took a dig at those criticising Azad within the party, saying the importance of an award is when the rival party honours the achievements of a leade

Samajwadi Party's national general secretary and former MP Rama Shankar Vidyarthi had claimed that Lord Hanuman belonged to tribal 'Gond' community

Congress's performance has been dwindling since its candidates were polled low during the election time at Gorakhpur and Phulpur

The recent development followed Congress' worst performance in recent Lok Sabha bypolls to Gorakhpur and Phulpur

This comes a day after a row erupted over Gandhi's visit to the Somnath Temple in Gujarat

BJP and RSS were misguiding the youth in the name of nationalism, alleged Raj Babbar

Rahul Gandhi had accused PM Modi for playing politics over blood of soldiers, who sacrificed their lives in Kashmir

Babbar participated in Sonia Gandhi's roadshow in Varanasi who is expected to corner Modi over issue of cleaning of Ganga

A private survey by the party suggests that with Priyanka campaigning, the Congress could get at least 50 seats in the 403-strong legislative assembly; without her, the number might come down to 20. It currently has 28

The announcement was made by Congress general secretary Janardan Dwivedi

Babbar claimed that crop sowing area has shrunk to less than 120 lakh hectares from 125 lakh hectares in the last two years