Politics

Congress's chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala accused Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath of 'lying' that the previous Congress governments were responsible for the dispute that triggered Wednesday's violence in Sonbhadra.

Her political career from Delhi started in earnest in 1998, when she defeated the BJP’s Lal Bihari Tiwari from east Delhi in the Lok Sabha election and became the CM the next year.

On Friday, Priyanka Gandhi was detained and stopped from going to Sonbhadra, where 10 people were gunned down this week. Gandhi was taken to a guesthouse after she squatted on the road, insisting that she be allowed to proceed.

Rao claimed that the Congress is on the verge of collapse and also accused the BJP in the state of levelling false charges against the TRS regime.

The statement by the speaker in the assembly came after senior Congress leader H K Patil requested him to create an atmosphere conducive for the legislators who are holed up outside the city to attend the session.

Shiv Sena has chosen North Maharashtra to start junior Thackeray's rallies as a means of re-establishing its sway over the lost bastion.

Protests were held in front of several borough offices of the Kolkata Municipal Corporation across the city, Rajarhat BDO office and Howrah district magistrate's bungalow.

The House was adjourned by Deputy Speaker Krishna Reddy as the Congress members persistently shouted slogans against the BJP as the proceedings wore on with Kumaraswamy yet to make his speech on the motion.

The first phase of Aditya Thackeray’s yatra will start from Jalgaon and cover four districts of North Maharashtra — Jalgaon, Dhule, Nashik, Ahmednagar- in the next five days.

In a setback to the PDP, the former Jammu and Kashmir minister Mohammed Khalil Bandh said in his letter that it was not worth continuing when the basic and founding principles of the party had been compromised.

Baig landed in the IMA controversy after the company owner Mohammed Mansoor Khan alleged the Congress MLA took Rs 400 crore from him but did not return it.

Principal Advisor to the Andhra Pradesh government Ajay Kallam also raised suspicions about power lobbies playing a part in forcing the Union government to put pressure on the state against cancelling the agreements.

While Nagaraj made no clear announcement of taking back his resignation, Karnataka deputy chief minister G Parameshwara said that the party is indeed trying to pursue him.

The Speaker had on July 9 asked the three MLAs to appear before him at his office between 3 pm and 4 pm Friday for a personal hearing.

Champion, who is the Khanpur MLA, landed in a fresh trouble on Wednesday when a video showing him dancing with guns to a popular Bollywood number in front of his cheering supporters went viral on social media.

Taking up the issue in the Zero Hour, Gandhi in his brief maiden speech in the 17th Lok Sabha mostly focused on Kerala and made specific mention of problems facing farmers in Wayanad, from where he has been elected to Lok Sabha.