Aiming to hit another home run in Bihar, Lalu Prasad Yadav has slammed the "dictatorial" government at the Centre and said Prime Minister Narendra Modi must be ousted from power
Activists of the Nationalist Congress Party and the Bharatiya Janata Party on Wednesday came to blows in Dombivali in Thane district of Maharashtra, following which 16 of them were arrested, police said. The incident occurred outside a gymnasium in the Bhopar area following a heated exchange between local leaders of both the parties over some issue, a police official said. Two cross First Information Reports (FIRs) have been registered.
The parliamentary board works in tandem with the Central Election Committee (CEC) and members of the board are also members of the CEC
The BJP on Wednesday dropped Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan from its parliamentary board and brought in six new faces including B S Yediyurappa and Iqbal Singh Lalpura. Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal, K Laxman, Sudha Sadav and Satyanarayan Jatiya are the other new members of the BJP's apex organisational body -- an attempt by the party to make the parliamentary board more socially and regionally representative. Lalpura will be the first Sikh to have a seat in the BJP parliamentary board as a person from a minority community. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers Amit Shah and Rajnath Singh and BJP president J P Nadda are among its members. The party also rejigged its Central Election Committee and included former Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis, Union Minister Bhupender Yadav, Om Mathur and its women wing chief Vanathi Srinivasan. Former Union minister Shahnawaz Hussain and Jual Oram have been dropped fr
In a searing attack on the Eknath Shinde-led government in Maharashtra, Shiv Sena leader Aaditya Thackeray on Wednesday said everyone knows who is the "real chief minister", apparently alluding to the clout of Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis of the BJP in the new dispensation. Taking a dig at the cabinet expansion, Aaditya Thackeray said the ministerial team has neither heard Mumbai's voice nor the voice of women or Independent MLAs. Chief Minister Eknath Shinde last week expanded his Cabinet, inducting nine MLAs each of the rebel Shiv Sena camp and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which is supporting his government. No woman legislator or Independent was inducted in the Cabinet whose strength is now 20. The first 14 to 15 MLAs who aligned with Shinde when he revolted against the Shiv Sena leadership in June have not found a place in the Cabinet. So there is no place for loyalty, Aaditya Thackeray, a former minister, mocked while talking to reporters outside the state ...
Nearly weeks after resigning from the Congress, former Gujarat minister Naresh Raval and former Rajya Sabha member Raju Parmar joined the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi targeted PM Narendra Modi over the release of the convicts in the Bilkis Bano case and said the entire country is seeing the difference between his words and deeds
Days after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) parted ways with the National Democratic Alliance, BJP has set a target of winning 35 seats in Bihar in 2024 Lok Sabha elections
The district court has granted bail to two of Tyagi's aides who were accused of harbouring him during the period he went absconding from Noida, a lawyer said.
Days after its old ally JD(U) chief Nitish Kumar severed alliance and formed a government with RJD, BJP chief JP Nadda is scheduled to meet party's leaders from Bihar unit
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The state cabinet can have up to 36 ministers, including the chief minister. The induction of ministers on Tuesday is expected to keep a few berths vacant for future expansion.
As part of 76th Independence Day celebrations, one group had tried to tie Savarkar's flex to high mast light pole at the circle, to which other group objected and wanted to install Tipu Sultan's flex
After hoisting the national flag at the historic Gandhi Maidan here, Kumar addressed the gathering and said that he was 'wishing not only to give 10 lakh jobs but he wants to double the number'.
Sonia Gandhi alleged that a "self-obsessed" government is hell-bent on "trivialising" the sacrifices of freedom fighters and the party will strongly oppose such attempts made for political gains
The Kerala High Court has directed a sessions court in Palakkad to expedite the trial in the case regarding the killing of an RSS worker who was hacked to death in November last year in that district
Successful regional parties are mostly run by charismatic leaders who rely significantly on populist welfare schemes and caste combinations
The BJP Sunday expelled from the party Uttarkashi district panchayat member Hakam Singh Rawat after he was arrested in connection with the Uttarakhand Subordinate Services Selection Commission case
He further said that the Congress would need support of people to "save the democracy"
Speculation over Bommai's continuance resurfaces, but BJP brass unlikely to do an Uttarakhand in Karnataka