Politics

Jhalani, who owns Tripti Enterprises — a shop right across the street from the Pradesh Congress Committee office in Jaipur — has seen the face of politics change over the years. He saw the long rule of the Congress and the emergence of the BJP as a force...

The Congress, which issued B-form to 100 candidates, gave only 11 tickets to women (11 per cent) while the ruling Telangana Rashtra Samiti offered just four seats (four per cent) as against six during the 2014 polls.

The gathering, being organised at Vishwasaraiyya Hall of the PWD office here, will include members of various sub-castes of the community. The BJP 'sammelan' will conclude on December 2.

Rahul Gandhi has termed the Centre’s nominees in the RBI board as PM Narendra Modi’s “coterie of cronies”.

The state government and the Opposition entered into a war of words after the latter termed the incumbent as the ‘thugs of Maharashtra’ in a press conference preceding the session.

Peeved over non-allotment of an accommodation to run the party office, the party said it was clear that the BJP was not keen on carrying us along.

Without directly taking parties' name, the Samajwadi Party chief used their symbols (Congress's hand and SP's cycle) to hint at the growing rift between the two.

They said polling will be held in six districts of the Kashmir Valley, two in Ladakh and seven districts in the Jammu region.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's saying 'agents from Italy' facilitated religious conversions of Chhattisgarh tribals was a veiled attack against former Congress president Sonia Gandhi.

The rival camp, led by Leader of Opposition Abhay Singh Chautala, vehemently denied the charge.

In a series of tweets, Kushwaha asked if Modi was 'wrong' in his attack on Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is sister of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, over her 'neech rajnitii' (lowly politics) jibe against the saffron party during the 2014 Lok Sabha polls.

The Congress leader took potshots at Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan's rule, saying 'vikas' (development) had gone missing but his party would ensure that it returns to the state every year.

Out of 75 candidates declared by the Congress so far, 29 are from the Reddy caste. Even though the Reddys are about 12% in the state they enjoy enormous political and economic clout disproportionate to their population.

The Aam Aadmi Party has sought de-registration of the new party on the grounds that their abbreviation would be the same -- AAP -- which could confuse voters.

TDP spokesperson Lanka Dinakar confirmed the meeting and said Naidu the purpose of the meeting is to “give a shape to mahagathbandhan against the Narendra Modi government at the Centre.”

Reacting to senior Congress MLA Sundarlal Tiwari's reamrks, BJP spokesperson Rajnish Agrawal accused the Congress of siding with Islamic terror groups.