Politics

Karnataka Home Minister M B Patil was responding to a query on "growing demand" among the Congress MLAs to see Siddaramaiah occupy the top post again.

A video showing the Bengal CM fuming at some villagers in West Midnapore district for chanting 'Jai Shri Ram' along a highway on Saturday has gone viral on social media. Three persons taken into custody over the matter.

Incidents of violence were reported from Bangaon, Hooghly and Barrackpore seats, an election official said.

The Union Minister also claimed that he was surprised at the reactions of Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra over the prime minister's remarks.

Yadav also asserted that a polarisation of most of the backward castes, Dalits and Muslims has taken place in the favour of the opposition alliance in Bihar.

The BJP had bagged 12 of these seats in 2014 with the Congress winning Sonia Gandhi's Rae Bareli and Rahul Gandhi's Amethi -- the only two constituencies where the Congress succeeded out of the 80 in the entire state.

Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi slammed Modi and said the people of Amethi would give a befitting reply to him for besmirching the image of an “honest and pure man”.

The BJP leader was campaigning for his mother Maneka Gandhi in Sultanpur when he made the controversial remark.

Ahead of the Lok Sabha election in the state, the Congress was misusing government machinery to intimidate BSP candidates, the former Uttar Pradesh chief minister said.

Senior TMC leader Partha Chatterjee said in Kolkata that the party will move the EC to complaint against Ghosh, who was once the superintendent of police in West Midnapore district in which Ghatal falls, for this comment.

Addressing an election meeting in Valmiki Nagar, situated on the Indo-Nepal border, PM Modi said he was appalled to see the Congress speaking the same language as Pakistan.

BJP spokesperson G V L Narasimha Rao said that Rahul Gandhi will lose Amethi by a wide margin.

The AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi also alleged that BJP was sending Rs 20,000 to village heads to influence the voters.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee called up her Rajasthan counterpart Ashok Gehlot as he turned 68. The conversation ranged from discussion on elections to Cyclone Fani.

Gandhi added in his letter that his Amethi family gave him the courage to stand with the truth and ensure equal justice for all.

The apex court had on April 8 directed the Election Commission to increase random matching of VVPAT slips with EVMs in five polling booths per assembly segment from one booth.