Politics

Talking about his decades-old association with the Congress, Jyotiraditya Scindia said he was hurt and distressed as he was not being able to serve the people in that party.

In sarcastic remarks, an editorial in Shiv Sena mouthpiece 'Saamana' also said it would have been good if there was a 'shadow governor' for the swearing-in of the shadow cabinet.

With 22 Congress MLAs quitting and plunging the Congress government in the state into a crisis, a meeting of the BJP Legislature Party was held on Tuesday evening.

Chowdhury alleged that some sort of 'allurement and enticement' offered by the Bharatiya Janata Party had convinced Scindia for switching over from the Congress.

Deputy CM Ajit Pawar, who also holds the finance portfolio, presented a revenue deficit budget of Rs 9,511 crore and proposed the size of annual plan 2020-21 at Rs 1,15,000 crore in the Assembly.

Three Rajya Sabha seats are falling vacant in the state and they are currently held by Digvijaya Singh (Congress), Satyanarayan Jatiya and Prabhat Jha (both from BJP).

The Assembly mostly meets in Dehradun, but occasionally sessions — like the current Budget session — are held in Gairsain. Unlike Dehradun, which is far off from many districts, Gairsain’s has an edge due to its location.

Some ruling camp MLAs, who were reportedly taken out of the state by the BJP, returned to Bhopal in a special plane along with senior Congress MLAs on Wednesday evening.

Prasanta Sarkar has been booked for promoting enmity between different groups.

According to a complaint lodged by Chowdhury's private secretary Pradipto Rajpandit, the four men entered the Congress leader's office around 5.30 pm enquiring about him.

Meanwhile, Uddhav Thackeray declined to comment on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's announcement that he was thinking of quitting social media.

Priyanka's tweet comes after farmers at villages in the Adalhaat police station area on Sunday opposed the construction of the dedicated freight corridor by lying in front of earth-moving machines of the construction agency.

Kishor, who was expelled from the Nitish Kumar-led Janata Dal (United) in January, was referring to the chief minister's speech on Sunday at a party 'karyakarta sammelan' here.

Bhim Army chief Chandra Shekhar Aazad says politics is not his 'ambition' but his 'compulsion'.

In the letter, concerns were also raised about the involvement of senior administrative and police functionaries, including the chief and home secretaries and the DGP, in the ads that appeared by the side of the chief minister.

Congress Legislature Party Leader Siddaramaiah and state congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao had quit their posts, owning moral responsbility for the party's rout in the December 5 bypolls.