Politics

Senior BJP leader Ashish Shelar said they discussed a strategy to win the impending floor test comfortably.

Ajit Pawar, the NCP chief's nephew who won from Pune's Baramati seat in last month's state polls with a huge victory margin of 1.65 lakh votes, on Sunday joined hands with the BJP in a coup and took oath as deputy of Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fa...

Senior BJP leaders Chandrakant Patil, Vinod Tawade and Girish Mahajan were also present at the closed-door meeting held at the official residence of the chief minister.

During the recently concluded Maharashtra polls, NCP had continuously fought against the BJP, former Karnataka chief minister HD Kumaraswamy pointed out.

Ravi Shankar Prasad hit out at the Congress-NCP and the Shiv Sena, saying those who were 'dead opposed' to each other joined hands to 'grab' power, while the saffron party and Fadnavis had won the popular mandate to form government.

Uddhav Thackeray also called BJP 'narcissists' and said that they had made a mockery of democracy.

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Congress general secretary KC Venugopal told the media after a meeting at party chief Sonia Gandhi's 10 Janpath residence that that the CWC was briefed on the discussion between NCP and Congress on Wednesday.

Indian Union Muslim League said the Congress and the NCP wanted to join hands with the Hindutva party Shiv Sena, 'out of political compulsion' just to prevent the BJP from coming back to power in Maharashtra.

Banerjee, who has been often criticised by the BJP for appeasing and treating Muslims as her vote bank, urged the community not to trust leaders visiting from outside.

The Centre earlier this month replaced the Special Protection Group (SPG) cover of the family of former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, assassinated by LTTE terrorists on May 21, 1991, with the 'Z-plus' security of the Central Reserve Police Force.

The Lok Sabha has already passed the bill on August 2, which also paves the way for the leader of the single largest opposition party in the Lok Sabha to be a member of the trust.

Pinaki Misra (BJD) said stubble burning is not a major contributor of pollution in Delhi and the farmers should not be vilified.

NCP President Sharad Pawar had said if the NCP-Congress have to take a view on government formation, they have to first discuss it between themselves.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has already challenged the findings of the Consumer Affairs Ministry-controlled BIS and has insisted that the water supplied by Delhi Jal Board (DJB) is safe.

The counting of votes began amid tight security. The Rajasthan municipal elections were held to elect nearly 2,100 ward councillors on Saturday.