Politics

With the Congress ruling out fielding Sumalatha from the Mandya Lok Sabha constituency, saying the seat would go to its coalition partner JD(S), clamour is growing within the BJP to induct her.

Addressing a press conference here, Gandhi accused the prime minister of performing a bypass surgery in the deal and the government of manipulating institutions to "save" him.

BSP official Bhimrao Ambedkar has instructed party leaders to immediately remove banners that do not follow the said instructions and leaders who violate the instructions will be expelled from the party.

The Aam Aadmi Party, probably still smarting over the Congress turning down an alliance between the two, wasted no time in seizing on the opportunity to hint at a secret deal between the Congress and the BJP.

The decision was taken at a meeting chaired by BJP general secretary in-charge of North East, Ajay Jamuwal, and attended by state party's leaders and workers .

According to sources, the party has now decided to focus on the 'winability' of its own candidates rather than giving more space to the Samajwadi Party-Bahujan Samaj Party alliance in order to defeat the BJP in the state.

At an event in Ahmedabad on Sunday, Shah had said the IAF air strikes on a Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camp in Pakistan's Balakot last Tuesday 'killed more than 250 terrorists'.

Addressing a public rally on Friday, Congress minister Pradyumn Singh Tomar said the Rs 1000 doled out to elder farmers was meant for consumption of “chewing tobacco and smoking beedis”.

Shah said with these strikes on terror camps, India has become only the third country in the world after the US and Israel to avenge attacks on its armed forces personnel.

In his blog, finance minister Arun Jaitley slammed the Congress for trying to create a divide in India’s political opinion, after an initial show of support to the Indian Air Force.

The state unit, in consultation with the central leaders, has roped in an external agency to assess its prospects in the Lok Sabha constituencies.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram praised the NDA government's effort to clean up River Ganga and for 'succeeding' in its National Highway building programme.

The AAP had been sending feelers to the Congress leadership for a pre-poll tie-up for quite a while, but was rebuffed.

The ruling TDP in Andhra Pradesh and the Congress encouraged corruption and were trying to misguide people through their campaign against the BJP dispensation at the Centre, the Prime Minister said.

In the well-crafted address that would have been closely watched both in India and international community, Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not elaborate on the early morning air strike conducted by the IAF inside Pakistan.

Kamal Nath asked whether BJP will teach the definition of nationalism to the Congress.