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According to reports, Basanagouda Patil Yatnal made these statements at a function on June 4 in Vijayapura. Yatnal has served as MP and as Minister of State in the Vajpayee government.

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, BJP state unit chief Raosaheb Danve and other party leaders were also present at the meet held at Tata's residence in south Mumbai.

The BJP leader maintained that if the situation deteriorates the government will have to take tough measures.

"I met yoga guru Swami Ramdev as part of 'Sampark for Samarthan' programme and informed him about the Narendra Modi-led government's achievements and public welfare policies in its four years of rule," Shah tweeted.

Mahanta, who is one of the three signatories of Assam Accord having led the six-year-long anti-foreigners’ movement (1979-1985), said a section of people might be spreading propaganda and trying to mislead people.

Nitin Patel did antagonise the party leadership to some extent earlier this year, when he refused to attend office after the Vijay Rupani government was sworn in after the Assembly election.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said while there will not be any blanket approach in working out alliances or seat adjustments in various states, the basic object would be to ensure consolidation of anti-BJP votes

While BJP president Amit Shah may have said that losing bypolls was a minor blip as compared to winning state and general elections, the stakes are nevertheless high for the party.

Last week, a BSP delegation met Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, claiming that the Mall Avenue bungalow had been converted into a Kanshi Ram memorial in 2011, and Mayawati occupied only two rooms in it.

While the two families battled against each other for at least two decades, their political legacies have now been handed over to members of their respective clans, who are eager to appropriate the inheritance.

In a wide ranging conversation, Gadkari said that the Congress' opposition to Mukherjee attending the event shows that the party talks about being progressive and secular but believes in political untouchability.

BJP's attack on the JD(S) leader came after the latter's comments in Bengaluru on Sunday that he was at the mercy of the Congress and not the people of Karnataka as his government had not received the full mandate, which his party had sought in the recent...

NCP's Praful Patel, who lost from the Bhandara-Gondia constituency in the 2014 Lok Sabha election, said his party had raised the issue about the faulty EVMs with the Election Commission.

It is first time that Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, who is also president of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U) -- a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ally, has questioned the demonetisation move of the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) gover...

Mayawati said she will continue to lead the Bahujan Samaj Party for the next 20 to 22 years, bluntly telling party leaders that nobody needed to dream of becoming the party president.

BSP chief Mayawati alleged that there was anarchy in all walks of life, which proved that the BJP's rule meant “jungle raj”.