Politics

Sudeep Patel (34) was arrested in a two-month-old case of threatening Congress leader Sukhram Bamne, Harda Superintendent of Police Bhagwat Singh Birde said.

Parliament LIVE: President Ram Nath Kovind laid down the roadmap for the next five years as he discussed issues such as Triple Talaq, Nikah Halala, NRC, surgical strikes and One Nation, One Election in the joint session of Parliament today.

The issue was raised at an all-party meeting held under the tutelage of the Speaker at his chamber, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Partha Chatterjee told reporters.

Asserting that his comments against state Congress leaders were the opinion of the party workers, he said he was in the Congress party headed by Rahul Gandhi and 'not in the Siddu (Siddaramaiah) Congress'.

The familiar faces which were not seen included BJP veteran Murli Manohar Joshi, former Speaker Sumitra Mahajan, Congress leaders Mallikarjun Kharge, M Veerappa Moily and Jyotiraditya Scindia.

He had also contested from the Gandhi bastion of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh but was defeated by BJP leader and Union Minister Smriti Irani by a margin of over 55,000 votes. Rahul took the oath in English.

Following the Congress's debacle in the recent Lok Sabha election, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will visit the state to strengthen the party organisation in time for the 2022 assembly polls.

Sidhu had made attempts to meet Rahul Gandhi last week after he was divested of the local government and tourism and cultural affairs departments in a cabinet rejig.

After Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan wrote to Kejriwal pressing him on the issue, the chief minister had replied on Friday that the Delhi Government has introduced free health care and, therefore, need not implement the central scheme.

Hinting at multiple defections to the BJP, Maharashtra Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan said the Opposition is likely to receive a major jolt ahead of the state assembly elections, due in September-October this year.

The MLAs pressed for a leadership change in Haryana over the party's failure to win any of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

The Union housing and urban affairs minister also likened the AAP government with theories of 'broken window economics and broken window fraud'.

The meeting between the two assumes special significance given the rise of the BJP in West Bengal and the political threat it poses for her.

Patnaik’s decision to contest from Bijepur as the second seat was born out of his party’s attempt to endear itself to the people of western Odisha in the face of BJP’s growing popularity in the region in recent years.

Giriraj Singh's comments forced Union home minister Amit Shah to instruct him to refrain from making such remarks in the future.

Todabhim MLA Prithviraj Meena said the chief minister should bear the responsibility for the election drubbing after the party failed to bag any of the 25 Lok Sabha seats in the state.