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Development only possible when Mamata leaves, lotus blooms in WB: JP Nadda

Development in West Bengal is only possible when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee leaves and the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 'kamal' (lotus) blooms, said BJP national President JP Nadda on Wednesday

Congress misleading farmers for political gains, says Anurag Thakur

Union Minister of State Anurag Thakur said the party has been misleading the farmers for its political gains by claiming that the agricultural produce market committee mandis will be scrapped

Won't allow BJP to turn Bengal into crematorium, says Mamata Banerjee

Ahead of the upcoming Legislative Assembly elections in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged the people of the state to show the door to Bharatiya Janta party

Cops halt BJP's Parivartan Yatra in Bengal's Murshidabad for 'route breach'

BJP's 'Parivartan Yatra' was temporarily stopped from moving ahead in West Bengal's Murshidabad district as "members of the saffron camp, took a route that had a few sensitive pockets"

Sanjay Raut responds to Shah's accusation, says 'closed room' benefited BJP

Sanjay Raut responded to Amit Shah's attack on Uddhav Thackeray about promises made in a 'closed room', saying that the same closed room has benefited the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well

Mamata govt not implementing central schemes, says PM Narendra Modi

In Assam, he says conspiracy hatched to defame Indian tea

U'khand flood: Was against power projects on Himalayas, says Uma Bharti

Uma Bharti said that when she was a minister she had opposed the idea of having any power projects on the Himalayan mountain range in the state

How farm protests may change political equations and hurt BJP in key states

The longer the protests persist, the more challenges the BJP will face in Haryana and UP, besides perhaps also in other electorally crucial cow-belt states like Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan

BJD criticises centre for lower allocation of Rail funds, BJP trashes claim

BJP leaders asserted that Narendra Modi has all along given priority to the state and provided sufficient money

Peaceful 'satyagraha' of farmers in national interest, says Rahul Gandhi

Ahead of the nationwide 'chakka jam' called by the farmer unions protesting the Centre's new agri laws, Congress leader Gandhi said the peaceful 'satyagraha' of the 'annadatas' is in national interest

Security tightened in Delhi in wake of 'chakka jam' call by farmer unions

Security across the national capital has been tightened with deployment of extra forces, putting up multi-layered barricades and barbed wires on the roads ahead of the 'chakka jam' by farmer unions

Explained: How govt-Twitter fracas put IT laws, content policies in focus

Business Standard explains who can request the takedown of posts on Twitter, how they can do so, and what process the microblogging site follows before deciding to accede to the request or not

Lack of industry in Nandigram may return to haunt Mamata Banerjee

Nandigram, 126 km south of Kolkata, is Banerjee's once trusted lieutenant turned biggest challenger Suvendu Adhikari's bastion

Best of BS Opinion: A BJP Budget, a driver of economic revival, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Shekhar Gupta: Finally, a BJP Budget

The ones so far were all Congress+ to Congress+++

All-inclusive budget touches every section of society: J P Nadda

The BJP on Monday hailed the Union Budget as one for an 'Aatmanirbhar Bharat'

Farmers' agitation against three new laws acquires an anti-BJP edge

The govt's bid to 'criminalise' farmers' dissent seems to have ended up infusing new energy into the agitation: Those who had gone back exhausted to villages have returned emotionally charged

West Bengal polls 2021: Rajib Banerjee, other former TMC leaders join BJP

Rajib Banerjee joined the BJP in the national capital along with a few other leaders of the state's ruling party after meeting senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah

BJP working overtime to destroy the social fabric of Assam: Congress

The Congress alleged that the ruling BJP has been working overtime to destroy the social fabric of Assam

BJP president affirms party's alliance with AIADMK for Tamil Nadu polls

Polls are due in Tamil Nadu in April-May