Politics

Last month, Gujarat Tribal Development minister Ganpat Vasava had urged Gandhi to consume poison to check if he was indeed an 'avatar' of Lord Shiva as claimed by his party workers.

The Congress leader alleged that the "chowkidar" took care only of the rich and ignored the rest 99 per cent of the population.

Reiterating the 'speed-breaker didi' jibe, which he has used at almost all of his rallies in the state, Modi said reports from the first two phases of polling in Bengal had given sleepless nights to Banerjee.

Thakur is under fire for saying that Karkare died in the 26/11 terror attack because she had cursed him for 'torturing' her when he probed the Malegaon blast case as then chief of the state Anti-Terrorism Squad.

PM Modi said the 'farzi dosti' or fake friendship of 'bua' and 'babua', referring to Mayawati and SP president Akhilesh Yadav will also end the same way as the 2017 state elections.

The court directed the party as well as the Election Commission of India to file their replies within two weeks and fixed May 13 as the next date of hearing.

The SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav's appeal could go a long way in ironing out any wrinkles in smooth vote-transfer between SP-BSP voters across the state.

The SP and BSP had had broken up in 1995 after Mayawati withdrew support from the alliance government led by Mulayam Singh Yadav.

The claim is false; the pictures have been taken from 2013 articles about prosthetic fingers helping to reform former Yakuza in Japan.

Calling upon the people to vote for Bhagat who is seeking a third term, the chief minister said, just as the people had rejected dynastic politics in 2014, 'such a result should be repeated this time too.'

During a rally, PM Modi had alleged that the Left and the Muslim League were playing a dangerous game on Sabarimala, and are initiating 'to strike at the root of faith and aspiration'.

The public spat between the two MLAs was resolved only after Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat's intervention.

Brushing aside the BJP’s challenge in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee expressed confidence that the next government at the Centre would be a non-NDA, non-UPA one.

CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar said his entire election campaign is going on with people's support.

Terming Banerjee the "biggest and most-trusted ally" of RSS-BJP, Mitra said in an interview to PTI that she and her party lack credibility as an anti-BJP force.

The Congress had suspended Jagmeet Singh Brar in 2014 following his remarks against the then party president Sonia Gandhi and vice president Rahul Gandhi. He had asked the mother-son duo to take a two-year break in the wake of the party’s worst-ever debac...