Politics

On October 25, the Election Commission had announced that the by-elections in West Bengal for vacant Kaliaganj in North Dinajpur, Kharagpur Sadar in West Midnapore, and Karimpur assembly seats in Nadia district will be held on November 25.

The cabinet has also decided to grant subsidy in the sale of a chemical which decomposes stubble. This will encourage farmers to use the 'decomposer' chemical and prevent stubble burning.

Training guns at caretaker chief minister Devendra Fadnavis for saying that there have been no talks on 50-50 seat sharing formula, Raut said that everybody was aware about the deal between two parties.

The comment has drawn sharp reaction with Congress leader Jitin Prasad saying that statements like these give a handle to parties like BJP to exploit it for political gains.

Sharma, 48, went for a morning walk where he suffered a heart attack, a close aide of Sharma said. Two hours back, Sharma had greeted people on Diwali through his Twitter handle.

The Leader of Opposition in the outgoing Assembly also said that though the mandate for the Congress was to sit in opposition, the party needed to join hands with others to stop the BJP from coming to power.

A 17-member group of leaders, set up by Sonia Gandhi which includes former PM Manmohan Singh and Rahul Gandhi besides other top leaders, met at her 10 Janpath residence to hold discussions on key issues facing the country.

In the by-polls on five assembly seats in Bihar, JD(U) could win only at Nathnagar. It held four of the five seats, before its legislators winning general election and moving to Lok Sabha.

A two-minute video posted on the Congress’ official Twitter handle sought to push Gandhi as a leader of the masses and give him the credit for the seemingly better-than-expected performance, especially in Haryana, where the party has more than doubled its...

Regarding the outcome of the Jhabua Assembly bypoll where the Congress’ Kantilal Bhuria defeating BJP candidate Bhanu Bhuriya by a margin of over 27,000 votes, Vijayvargiya said the government machinery was misused.

Despite the big political alignment of the 2019 Lok Sabha elections — the SP-BSP gathbandhan — having been called off by BSP chief Mayawati, the SP managed to grab three seats in bypolls.

Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray, looking elated after the triumphant maiden electoral foray of his son Aaditya, reminded the BJP of promises not fulfilled.

Eknath Khadse enjoyed more support in Muktainagar as an individual than the party did, he claimed also alleging that there was a tacit understanding between the Shiv Sena and NCP that led to his daughter's defeat.

The biggest shocker is in Haryana where at least three exit polls predicted decimation of the opposition, but the BJP is set to win 40 seats in the 90-member assembly and the Congress 31 seats.

Voters have evidently rejected calls from BJP leaders like Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and party vice-president Baijayanta Panda to “teach BJD and Patnaik a lesson” in this election.

State Congress chief Kuldeep Singh Rathore said he would consult his senior party colleagues for filing a case in the high court against the poll panel.