Politics

KC Ramamurthy's resignation has been accepted by House Chairman M Venkaiah Nadu. In the recent past, Bhubneshwar Kalita and Sanjay Singh, both from the Congress, had resigned from the upper house.

Addressing a poll rally at Tigaon near Faridabad, Shah said it was only the Narendra Modi government which abrogated the special status for Jammu and Kashmir under Article 370, making the region an integral part of the country.

NCP leader Supriya Sule also dubbed the BJP's demand for the Bharat Ratna honour for Hindutva ideologue V D Savarkar as an 'election gimmick'.

He said Ajit's resignation on "emotional grounds" diverted the "focus" from the Pawar senior's move which would have otherwise given a much-needed political leverage to the NCP in the run-up to crucial elections.

Deve Gowda's repeated appreciation for PM Narendra Modi and his party's conduct during the recently concluded Assembly session has given rise to speculation within the state's political circles that JD(S) was going soft on the Centre.

While the Congress has been targetting the Centre over what it claimed was a severe economic slowdown in the country, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel said his state had managed to buck the trend and was doing well financially.

Addressing a poll rally in Solapur's Barshi on Saturday, Pawar had hit out at Fadnavis over the latter's remark that the BJP's "wrestler" (poll machine) was ready to fight, but there was no opponent.

Without naming Sharad Pawar, PM Modi said he was shocked to see the leader getting angry and hitting a fellow party member with his elbow.

The Congress general secretary in-charge UP East tagged a media report which said that a farmer could not repay the loan of Rs 35,000 and under pressure from the bank, consumed poison to end his life.

Uttar Pradesh police had said that the death of Pushpendra Yadav, a youth, was an encounter, however, Akhilesh Yadav has time and again suspected the role of the police.

Demanding an apology from Rahul Gandhi, he said the meeting by the UK representatives of Indian Overseas Congress was against India's stated stand that there will be no third party role in Kashmir.

Sources revealed that a few of the party’s old guards, who were left out of the team, have raised their voice over the selection of younger leaders.

Amid criticism over delay in sanctioning aid, the Centre had last week released an interim relief of Rs 1,200 crore to the state which has sent a flood damage estimate of over Rs 30,000 crore.

In August, the Aam Aadmi Party government had announced free-electricity of up to 200 units for domestic consumers and later extended the scheme to tenants residing in the national capital.

In his Dussehra address in Nagpur, Bhagwat had said isolated incidents of social violence should not be labelled with foreign words, like lynching, to defame the country.

BJP leader Satish Chandra Dubey was declared elected unopposed since no other candidate had filed nomination papers for the by-elections.