Politics

Besides Santosh Verma, a member of party's IT cell, senior BJP leader Arijit Rai has also been identified as one of the members to have been 'scolded' by Babul Supriyo.

Opposition parties and the IPFT have alleged that elected representatives were forced to resign by the BJP and it also did not allow their candidates to submit nomination papers for the elections.

As clashes ensued between police and protesters, an unidentified man pelted stones at the chief minister's vehicle, shattering one of the windowpanes.

The Congress on Monday staked claim to form the government in Goa and will be meeting the Governor on Tuesday. This comes even as the BJP is trying to reason with its allies who are getting restless to grab the chief minister’s chair.

MRCC) president Sanjay Nirupam said Congress chief Rahul Gandhi has asked him to fight for the issues of the people of Mumbai.

In the letter, the party has said that no attempt should be made to dissolve the House. This is the fourth time the Congress has staked claim to power in Goa since emerging as the single-largest party in Assembly elections last year

The Union human resource development minister said he wanted to withdraw the words, claiming that they were "inadvertently" used during his speech at a school in Pune on Friday.

BJP president Amit Shah has sent three senior members of the party — B L Santhosh, Ram Lal and Vinay Puranik — to Goa to take stock of the political situation in the coastal in view of Manohar Parrikar's indisposition.

Keshav Prasad Maurya said the BJP was aiming at winning 74 of the 80 seats in the state in 2019 Lok Sabha polls and sought the support of 'Yaduvanshis'.

Imtiyaz Jaleel, AIMIM MLA from Aurangabad, said the idea behind the alliance was that Dalits, Muslims and OBCs have been ignored for 70 years, have no proper representation in politics and were being treated as vote-banks.

The directions came after opposition party Friday moved the high court, seeking directions to the concerned authorities to grant permission for holding a rally.

While the Congress demanded Jaitley's immediate resignation and an independent probe, the BJP alleged it was the previous UPA government that gave a 'sweet deal' to Mallya as if it was the Gandhi family that proxy-owned the airline.

About reports that he was trying to chart a separate political course, Tej Pratap asserted, "I only believe in following the path of my father and party supremo Lalu Prasad."

Kantilal Bhuria, a former Union minister, said he inaugurated the college as it had been approved during the term of the UPA government.

Pradhan’s letter mentioned that oil PSUs, NALCO, SAIL and NTPC have proposed high value projects in the state in line with PM Narendra Modi’s vision - Purvodaya.

In alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the last elections, the TDP had won 15 seats but 12 of its MLAs defected to the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS), making it a heavily depleted side.