Politics

Modi has already tried an income-based farm insurance scheme in Gujarat, but less than 10% of farmers opted into the scheme from 2013 as the method for calculating payouts was skewed against smaller farms.

"With the Congress and the NCP with Nitish Kumar, the JD-U will bargain hard with the RJD and even look for alternative political alignments minus the RJD for the election," JD-U leader Sanjay Singh said.

The article added that a 'suit-boot government' is anyday a better choice than a 'suitcase government'.

Telangana was formed as the 29th state of the country on June 2 in 2014, after it was carved out of Andhra Pradesh.

"I know everything. I know what to do and what not to do. Whatever we have to do, we will do that," Sayeed said.

Hitting out at Congress, the Prime Minister said, "Did the coal and spectrum scandals or the CWG fiasco benefit the poor? Everyone knows who were the beneficiaries some chosen industrialists and contractors."

The opposition has claimed that Kejriwal government is trying to misuse snooping devices to settle scores.

Allies Bharatiya Janata Party and (BJP) and Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam (DMDK) also held discussions on Friday on the bypolls.

After the Delhi HC termed the Home Ministry notification on Lieutenant Governor's powers as suspect, the Centre moved the Supreme Court via a Special Leave Petition.

Comparing Singh with Gandhari, a character in Hindu epic the Mahabharat, who had voluntarily blindfolded herself, she alleged as the country went on facing corruption and scams, the former prime minister chose to turn a blind eye.

Stepping up his offensive, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday hit out at BJP's ideological mentor RSS saying its belief was "murdering" individuality and that thought process is now running the country in which only one man knows everything from farmers to clothes.

Modi said that if he had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in him by the people.

Launching an indirect attack on the Nehru-Gandhi family, including Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi.

As part of his ongoing public outreach, Rahul Gandhi will take up the problems of fishing communities and rubber growers in Kerala on Wednesday.

The Delhi CM is also likely to speak on the tussle with Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung over the appointment of bureaucrats.

Patel maintained that there was never any political interference in the co-operative sector, which the BJP government has damaged with their politics.