Politics

Punjab minister SS Randhawa said that he stuck black tape to protest inclusion of Parkash Singh Badal's and Sukhbir Singh Badal's names on the foundation stone.

Mayawati said that BJP and Shiv Sena raked up Ram Mandir issue ahead of 2019 general elections to divert attention from their failure.

Rao slammed the Centre for keeping on hold a decision on raising reservations for Muslims and Scheduled Tribes in state government jobs and educational institutions despite the state assembly passing a resolution.

The Vasundhara Raje government is seen to be facing a massive anti-incumbency sentiment in Rajasthan this time round, and the BJP has dropped several sitting MLAs to minimise the effect.

Claiming that the party is in regular contact with the rebel leaders, Avinash Pande said, 'They are not rebels, but workers of the party. They have filed nominations due to their eagerness, but we are talking to them.'

The denial of permission comes as the two allies - Shiv Sena and BJP - are looking at the Ram temple issue to outdo each other in proving who’s “more Hindu” ahead of the general elections.

Arun Jaitley said that the investigation and prosecution are vigorously pursued by the SIT and such convictions in those residual cases will only be a small consolation.

Between them, the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party have fielded 11 candidates who have changed sides.

Manmohan Singh said demonetisation did not achieve any of the stated objectives as "no black money was recovered".

The civic body poll was a high-stake battle for the ruling BJP that was looking to match its own impressive showing in the Uttarakhand elections last year when it had won 57 out of 70 assembly seats.

Bhim Army chief Chandrashekhar Azad advocated harmony between the two communities and underlined importance of social engineering that once was base of the Bahujan Samaj Party.

In a swipe at the BJP, Thackeray said the Babri demolition case was reopened during Presidential elections and now the Ram temple issue is being raised before the Lok Sabha polls.

Led by Reddy, CPI Rajya Sabha MP D Raja, state secretary R Mutharasan visited Stalin days after CPI(M)'s top leader Sitaram Yechury had called on the DMK chief.

As Chouhan prides himself as a son of a farmer but many farmers in his constituency are angry due to lack of irrigation facilities despite Narmada flowing through this region.

BJP's Alwar unit chief Sanjay Narooka said Gupta joining another party hardly matters if or not the BJP accepts it.

Phoolka told news agency ANI that his statement was not against the army chief, but against the Congress that rules Punjab.