Politics

Bharatiya Kisan Sangh Mohini Mohan said the protests are “politically motivated” to influence the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

In Kairana and Noorpur, the saffron party was again outdone by the caste calculation of the SP-RLD combine which also had the backing of the Congress and the BSP.

Imran Masood holds sway over Muslim voters in two of Kairana’s Assembly segments – Nakur and Gangoh – which fall within Saharanpur district. For the SP and the RLD, the Congress strongman is a valuable asset.

Gandhi said the one paisa cut in petrol rates was not a "suitable response" to the fuel challenge he threw to the prime minister a few days ago.

Nyamagouda had won the recently held Assembly elections with 49,245 votes, defeating BJP rival Kulkarni Shrikant Subrao in Jamkhandi.

According to the sources, the meeting to decide on the portfolio allocation has been postponed for a week as Sonia Gandhi is travelling abroad with her son on Sunday night for health check-up.

The TDP had in March withdrawn support from the NDA government over the Centre's refusal to grant special category status to the state. Naidu and his party have in the past accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of reneging on his election promise made in...

PM Modi said people have put a seal of approval on the NDA’s performance while Amit Shah asserted that its return to power in 2019 is not a challenge but a certainty. Congress leaders hit back claiming that an atmosphere of fear and hatred has been create...

Tabassum, a SP leader, is contesting on a Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) ticket. She is the only major party Muslim candidate. While this should have given her an edge in the election, sources said it won’t be a cakewalk for her to keep all the 5.26 lakh Muslim...

The election was held as three members of the NCP, two of the BJP and one of the Congress are retiring from the Upper House of the state Legislature on June 21.

While Hukum Singh and Munawwar Hassan 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.

The Chief Minister’s Office has said that Rao will skip Kumaraswamy’s oath-taking ceremony because of “important engagements”. Speculation, however, is rife that he doesn’t want to share the stage with leaders of the Congress, the regional rival of his pa...

Addressing reporters after meeting the women’s wing of his Rajini Makkal Mandram, the actor termed the subsequent developments in Karnataka, wherein BS Yeddyurappa resigned as CM without a floor test, as a “win for democracy”.

Shortly after BS Yeddyurappa announced his resignation as the chief minister in the Karnataka Assembly, the Congress president told reporters that the Prime Minister was not bigger than India, the Supreme Court and institutions.

Capping five days of riveting political and court-room drama, Yeddyurappa announced his decision to quit on the floor of the Assembly after a brief emotional speech rather than face a vote of confidence he was widely expected to lose.

The floor test has always been the crucial test for any party who seeks to stake claim and command majority in the House.