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Akhilesh, who was in Kolkata to attend the eighth state conference of his party, said he would support Trinamool Congress and other parties fighting for secularism in the country.

Campaigning in Somnath, BJP chief Amit Shah said more than 13,000 people from Rahul Gandhi’s Amethi constituency were working in Gujarat and would take out a rally to tell the people about the “ground reality”.

It is for the first time BSP has contested urban body elections on the party symbol. Unlike the BJP, BSP chief Mayawati did not campaign in these elections.

The three-phase UP municipal polls were marred by complaints of names missing from the voters list and EVM malfunctioning.

Qadri said his leader believes in the Shashtras (Hindu scriptures) and follows Hinduism while respecting other religions and beliefs.

Mevani started a crowdfunding campaign on the website crowdnewsing around 10 days ago and has so far raised Rs 9,00,000.

Pramod Muthalik, who shot to fame after his followers attacked a pub in Mangaluru in 2009, is miffed with the BJP after his attempts to join the party were repeatedly thwarted as the state leadership felt he would be a huge liability.

The widely held superstition is that any sitting CM who visits the block, which is barely 56 kilometre from the state capital, soon loses his seat.

When Deputy Collector S J Vijaya reached at Parassala town to announce the compensation for the families of two workers killed in a quarry mishap on Friday to end the road blockade, MLA CK Hareendran allegedly began gesticulating and shouting at her over...

part from Naik, former chief minister of the state, Akhilesh Yadav, has also expressed concern about the missing names from the voters’ list. He took to twitter on Monday, saying the issued need to be addressed as faith in the electoral process is the big...

The BJP campaign will see 10 Union Ministers, four sitting Chief Ministers, three former Chief Ministers, two Members of Parliament and a BJP state chief hitting the ground and addressing rallies.

Senior party leader and Delhi Labour Minister Gopal Rai said the convention will see discussions on various issues, like the work done by the Delhi government and the Jan Lokpal Bill passed by the Assembly, which is awaiting clearance from the Centre.

Rahul Gandhi's tweet comes a day after Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) head and LeT founder Hafiz Saeed was freed from house arrest in Pakistan. Saeed, in his late 60s, was under house arrest for 297 days since January.

The Tamil Nadu government led by Chief Minister K Palaniswami 'unnecessarily' denied entry to the priests. Jayalalithaa's 'soul will not forgive' TTV Dinakaran said.

Whether the Mulayam Singh Yadav would attend the event or not has not been confirmed yet, his son and now SP national president Akhilesh Yadav is trying his best to use the occasion to placate his father.

"It has been three months now since the merger of EPS-OPS faction. Months are passing by, what about hearts?," Maitreyan, who is a member of Rajya Sabha, said in his Facebook post.