Politics

A civic volunteer, who was on duty near the cow shed where the event was organised, consumed gaumutra and fell sick, following which he lodged a complaint with the police against the BJP activist.

Posters of a smiling Mamata Banerjee with a simple one-liner ‘Banglar Gorbo Mamata’ (Mamata is Bengal’s pride) have taken over the city and suburbs. Not just voters, the huge hoardings have also taken the opposition camp by surprise.

On February 20, a BJP delegation led by senior party leader Mukul Roy met State Election Commissioner Sourav Das and requested that enough time should be given to the political parties for campaigning by deferring the civic polls as board exams would also...

Following the resignation of 22 MLAs, the Kamal Nath government seems to have slipped into minority with both Congress and BJP sequestering their legislators in resorts outside Madhya Pradesh ahead of the floor test.

Scindia, a long-time Congress leader and former Union minister, quit the Congress and joined the BJP on Wednesday.

Rahul Gandhi said PM Narendra Modi may have "missed" noticing the 35 per cent crash in global oil prices while he was “busy destabilising” the Kamal Nath government in MP, and asked him to pass on the benefit to Indians by slashing petrol prices.

Madhya Pradesh Finance minister Tarun Bhanot also slammed the BJP for allegedly attempting to topple the Kamal Nath government in the state.

Speaking on the issue in the House, KCR said Telangana Rashtra Samithi had firm commitments and principles on which it would never compromise.

Congress MP Ahmed Patel said the party's accounts are transparent and clear, and the Income Tax Department should have looked at the record-breaking donations of the BJP.

Leader of the Opposition in Assembly Devendra Fadnavis claimed Shiv Sena, NCP and Congress, which constitute the Maha Vikas Aghadi, do not trust each other.

For all the three parties, politics took precedence over quelling the violence in the national capital and taking adequate action in the aftermath.

Thackeray had last visited Ayodhya following Shiv Sena's stellar performance in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

As the Congress managed to ‘rescue’ six MLAs and ‘contacted’ the remaining four, internal upheaval of the party also came to fore which perhaps led to the problem in the first place.

Quoting BR Ambedkar, the Congress MP and senior party leader asserted that the makers of the Constitution rejected any idea of citizenship on the basis of religion.

BJP Maharashtra president Chandrakant Patil stated in the suspension letters that both the party workers showed indiscipline by voting against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the Modi government for its handling of the communal riots in Delhi which has claimed 42 lives so far, and asserted she will not allow West Bengal turn into another Delhi.