Politics

According to media reports based on an RTI reply, the bill due on the chief minister's official residence is Rs 7.44 lakh, while the overall amount pending for that of other state ministers was reportedly around Rs 8 crore.

Shah will also deliver his maiden speech in the Lower House after introducing the bill which had earlier been enforced as an ordinance.

Allegation about a secret deal between the BJD and the BJP in Vaishnav's Rajya Sabha bypoll nomination is baseless. There is nothing secret about it as everything was done openly said the petroleum and steel Minister.

It was reported that bathroom of a lodge where Kumaraswamy was supposed to stay was being renovated and his remarks comes as a response to that report.

Jayadev Galla, one of the TDP MPs who met Rajya Sabha Chairperson M Venkaiah Naidu, said that the merger of a political party can take place only at an organisational level, as per law.

Questioning promptness of the Modi dispensation in discussing such a crucial issue within one month of it assuming office, he said the priority should have been on unemployment and welfare of downtrodden people.

The regional BJP heads have been asked to give details of the voter trends during the 2017 assembly polls and the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, which will be assessed to formulate booth-level strategy for the by-polls.

BJP state president K Laxman also condemned the Telangana CM's claim that the NDA government did not give any funds for the mega Kaleswaram Lift Irrigation project across the Godavari river, to be inaugurated on June 21.

In a major move after the rout in the Lok Sabha polls, the AICC on Wednesday said it has decided to dissolve the KPCC, while retaining its President and working President.

Rumblings within the Karnataka Congress have grown ever since the Lok Sabha poll debacle in the state. There have also been problems of coordination in the Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government in the southern state.

The 56-year-old was a surprise pick by the ruling BJP-led NDA as he is considered a relative newcomer.

Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary, DMK’s TR Baalu and TMC’s Sudip Bandyopadhyay were among those who backed Birla and urged him to be impartial as presiding officer of the Lower House.

Congress veteran and former CM Siddaramaiah, however, dismissed reports of a rift and blamed the BJP for trying to create issues between the coalition partners.

The two leaders were involved in a war of words in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls, in which the BJP-led NDA returned to power with a massive majority.

The Kota MP is all set to be the next Speaker of the 17th Lok Sabha.

Maintaining absolute secrecy on important political appointments till the last minute continues to define the BJP's top leadership.