Politics

Sources said the BJP is likely to field union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad against the two-time MP from the Patna Sahib seat.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is set to re-contest from Varanasi and the party is also deliberating on whether to field him from one more seat.

The Tumkuru seat arrangement has created discontentment among the local Congress leaders.

Addressing a public rally in the Manipur capital, Gandhi said the job losses under the Modi government were to the tune of 30,000 per day through 2018.

The Rajasthan Sarpanch Sangh's reaction comes after a video went viral where MLA Divya Maderna was asking the Khetasar village head in Osian area of Jodhpur district on Saturday to sit among the people on the ground.

The Congress on Saturday announced Arvind Kumar Singh, son of BJP MLC Jaivir Singh, as its candidate from the Gautam Buddh Nagar constituency.

Tribal outfits like Gondwana Gantantra Party (GGP) and Jai Adivasi Yuva Shkati (JAYS) are set to exhibit their might ahead of the Lok Sabha elections in Madhya Pradesh.

The actor was born in Indore's Palasia area in 1965 and spent a part of his childhood in that city before moving to Mumbai.

AAP leader Sanjay Singh met Pawar on Tuesday at the latter's residence and held discussions over seat-sharing with the Congress.

The list includes the names of 22 candidates from Andhra Pradesh, 11 from West Bengal, eight candidates from Telangana, six from Odisha, five from Assam and the three for the remaining seats in Uttar Pradesh.

Earlier this month, the Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party (TDP) came under scanner for allegedly misusing personal and sensitive citizen information from government database to profile voters.

The union minister also launched an attack against Mamata Banerjee and HD Kumaraswamy and said that “even if Mamata Banerjee came here and did the kathak and the Karnataka CM sang a song" no one will watch.

The BSP chief's statement is being seen as a response to Congress' decision to not field candidates against the top leadership of SP, BSP and RLD.

Referring to a statement by the BJP that the party was "already thinking on Goa political transit phase", Maharashtravadi Gomantak Party (MGP) president Dipak Dhavalikar said the crisis in government would unfold later.

Behera, who represents Cuttack's Salepur constituency, said he quit the Congress because he was ignored by the party's state leadership.

Protests against the AGP entering into fresh alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has evoked widespread resentment among people, including a section of the AGP's leaders and members, who are opposed to the alliance.