Politics

"Like Ceasar's wife, the Rajya Sabha Chairman's decision must be above questioning, but the disqualification of Rajya Sabha MPs Sharad Yadav and Ali Anwar casts a shadow," Sitaram Yechury tweeted.

Banerjee said she was sending Trinamool Congress MP Dinesh Trivedi to meet Sinha, who was detained at Akola in Maharashtra while protesting along with hundreds of farmers.

After BJP's stellar performance in the UP Municipal Elections, (which bagged 14 out of 16 Mayor posts), ex-chief minister of UP Akhilesh Yadav blamed EVMs for the debacle and demanded a thorough probe into the alleged EVM malfunctioning.

On expected lines, the Congress listed out the reservation formula it has worked out after several rounds of discussions with the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), the body that has been agitating for reservation.

Narendra Modi was at Navsari in south Gujarat to address the last of his four election rallies in Saurashtra and south Gujarat, which will vote in the first phase of the Gujarat assembly election on December 9.

The suit, filed by Sasikala and Dinakaran, sought to restrain Palaniswami and Panneerselvam from holding organisational posts of the party.

The result of the municipal body polls, which many claim to be a litmus test for CM Yogi Adityanath, will be announced on December 1.

Modi asked the Congress not to mock his “poor origins” also took a veiled dig at the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party, saying that Congress is learning from their hit-and-run style politics.

"Mr Prime Minister, the ground is shaking, and people feel betrayed. People have downgraded the government on its economic performance, these dubious upgrades don't matter," tweeted Congress leader Anand Sharma.

In Gujarat Assembly polls next month, 65 years after India’s first election, Ahmedabad’s Centenarian voters are planning to vote early in the morning before queues outside the booths get longer and tiresome.

On the flip side, what concerns the Congress is that Modi is yet to hit the campaign trail in the state; there are nagging worries if Congress has peaked a tad too early.

The incident occurred on a stretch of the Solapur-Barshi road when the water conservation minister was travelling in his car.

Former finance minister P Chidambaram said the erstwhile Congress-led UPA 2 dispensation had acquired a reputation for "many many corrupt deeds" at the fag end of its tenure.

Congress spokesperson Jaiveer Shergill claimed that a few district health departments in Gujarat have written to the state government that the vaccines supplied to them could not be administered to children as they were at the "last stage of expiry" and "...

KK Mishra in June 2014 had alleged that 19 candidates from the village of MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan’s wife Sadhna Singh in Maharashtra were recruited by the state transport department following directives from the CM House.

A similar tour to Israel was undertaken in April 2015 by a Telangana government delegation which was led by the agriculture minister. Isreal is known to use farming techniques that ensure high agriculture yield with less water.