Politics

With Mulayam’s possible attendance, pressure is also on Mayawati to depute a senior BSP leader to represent the party at the opposition gathering.

While the exit polls have handed an edge to Congress in Rajasthan, they have predicted a close contest in Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

In what was quite a political spectacle and a gamble, KCR went for early elections, six months before his term ended. Just recently, he claimed he was the only agent of the people of Telangana.

Telangana Chief Electoral Officer Rajath Kumar had stated late Friday that 67 percent polling was recorded at 5 pm. Since those standing in queues were allowed to vote even after 5 and this process continued for four to five hours in some polling centres.

In Telangana, caretaker Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao’s decision to call for snap polls may help the TRS clinch victory, even though one survey has given the grand old party the edge in the southern state.

A senior BJP leader said the party was faced with a tough political challenge from a resurgent Congress and focusing on aggressive Hindutva was, therefore, a necessity.

RLSP leaders have been mulling over the issue of alliance with NDA at the party’s two-day brainstorming session at the party's open session in Motihari in Bihar.

G Sudhakaran has been cut up with the Sabarimala tantri family ever since they threatened to close down the temple in case women in the age group 10 to 50 arrive to pray at the shrine in line with a Supreme Court verdict.

According to political observers, Owaisi’s AIMIM is fighting a ‘do-or-die’ battle in Charminar, Malakpet and Nampalli Assembly seats.

While Rao in his campaign meetings had been accusing Naidu of having claimed to have built Hyderabad, the latter has clarified that he only said he had put the Telangana capital on the world map and that Cyberabad was his brain child.

Rahul, addressing the business community in Mewar district of Rajasthan, stirred a controversy when he said that the PM claims he is a Hindu but doesn't understand the foundation of Hinduism.

The Congress has given tickets to eight new candidates, while retaining Gehlot from Sardarpura and Hira Ram from the Bilada constituency. On the other side, BJP has repeated all its sitting legislators in the nine seats it had won last time.

Navjot Singh Sidhu said Telangana was a revenue surplus state but under KCR it had gone under debt of Rs 2.20 lakh crore because his family is feeding on the resources.

The Uttar Pradesh chief minister had said, Hanuman was a forest dweller, deprived and a Dalit. Bajrang Bali worked to unite all Indian communities, from north to south and east to west.

A multi-purpose balancing reservoir project over Mekedatu, built at a cost of Rs 5,912, was aimed at solving the drinking water problems of Bengaluru and Ramnagar district.

Congress President Rahul Gandhi also cleared some fresh appointments in the Telangana Pradesh Congress, approving the names of two vice presidents—B M Vinod Kumar and Jaffer Javed, eight new general secretaries and four secretaries in the state unit.