Politics

Mithun Chakraborty had resigned as TMC MP after his his name came up in the Saradha chit fund controversy and was questioned by the ED in connection with with receipt of money from the firm.

Dushyant, a former MP from Hisar will take on Prem Lata, who defeated him from the constituency by a margin of over 7,000 votes in the 2014 state Assembly polls.

In what appeared to be a swipe at the present BJP leadership, Sonia Gandhi told party workers and leaders at Rajghat that the Mahatma's soul would be pained by what has been happening in India in the last few years.

KT Rama Rao also accused TPCC chief N Uttam Kumar Reddy of telling 'blatant lies' about the development in the Huzurnagar constituency.

Alpesh Thakor, who was elected on a Congress ticket in 2017 and resigned as MLA to join the BJP, will contest from Radhanpur, the seat he had won.

The JD(S) leader said unnecessarily his name was being linked to the case, and the seer was a moral support and guide for him.

Senior RSS functionary Krishna Gopal added wryly that Khan has ended up spreading the its name and prayed that Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan does not stop now.

Maharashtra BJP leaders held consultations with the ruling party's central leadership on poll preparedness in New Delhi on Thursday.

Two Dalit children were allegedly beaten to death by two upper-caste men for defecating near a village panchayat building in Madhya Pradesh's Shivpuri district on Wednesday, police said.

The law student was on Wednesday arrested on charges of extortion and sent to 14-day judicial custody. Hours later, her bail plea was rejected.

Samajwadi Party MLCs Ravishankar Singh 'Pappu', Ramesh Mishra and CP Chandra visited chief minister Yogi Adityanath recently and it is speculated that many others may also switch to the BJP.

Finance Minister Suresh Kumar Khanna had recently said ministers will soon start paying their own income tax as decided by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.

The Election Commission had announced the schedule of Maharashtra Assembly polls on Saturday, following which the model code of conduct came into force across the state.

Earlier today, Congress leader Milind Deora while praising the prime minister for his address in Houston recalled the contribution of his father Murlibhai in Indo-US ties.

The Uddhav Thackeray-led party also appeared critical of BJP president Amit Shah's plan to push the nationalistic narrative ahead of next month's Maharashtra Assembly polls.

The Delhi BJP president, Manoj Tiwari, hit out at the ruling party in the state saying that almost all the founding members of the AAP have left the party and only its National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal is alone to contest the upcoming election.