Politics

The crucial votes of BSP's Anil Singh, MLA from Purva (Unnao), and SP's Nitin Agrawal, MLA from Hardoi, had resulted in the defeat of BSP’s lone Rajya Sabha candidate Bhim Rao Ambedkar on Saturday.

Sources told News 18 that the Congress itself had commissioned the survey which was conducted between March 1 and 25 and spoke to 22,357 voters across 154 assembly constituencies.

The Telangana (Compulsory Teaching and Learning of Telugu in Schools) Act, 2018 was supported by all parties, including BJP, TDP, AIMIM, and CPI(M).

Banerjee’s response comes amid her efforts to cobble up a “federal front” of regional parties in the Opposition camp to take on the BJP in the next general election.

The Congress party cited the example of former Congress President Sonia Gandhi, who had resigned when the office of profit controversy broke out and had fought again to win the election.

Congress' Dr L Hanumanthaiah, Dr Syed Naseer Hussain and G C Chandrasekhar, and also BJP's Rajeev Chandrashekar were declared elected after a complaint by the JDS to the Election Commission delayed the counting of votes.

The minister said that all southern states are highly critical of the terms of reference. “It is not in the right spirit of federalism. It will further weaken the federal structure of India and worsen Centre-State fiscal imbalance,” he added.

Over the last week, the rumblings from South India have been growing over the devolution of taxes from the Centre.

The exchange took place after Congress's Sanjay Dutt raised a point of propriety and questioned allocation of land at Nagpur's MIHAN to the Ramdev-promoted Patanjali group.

Sailaja Reddy, a Zila Parishad Territorial Council member hopes to collect about Rs 40 lakh after selling her property.

Arvind Kejriwal, in his two separate apology letters on Monday, said that he regretted making the remarks against Nitin Gadkari and Amit Sibal, without any verification and accepted that they were based on "unfounded allegations".

The BJP has enough MLAs to send eight of its candidates to the Rajya Sabha but the Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party's four seats could hold the key to sending the ninth candidate to the Upper House.

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad moved a resolution, proposing that the new party chief selects his own team of the working committee, the highest decision-making body of the party.

Rao, popularly known as KCR, had recently said a non-Congress and non-BJP front should be formed in the country, as he called for a qualitative change in politics and had also announced that he was ready to take on the mantle of leading a political front.

BJP leaders have said that the TDP's decision to sever ties them has provided their party with an opportunity to expand its footprints in the state ahead of the next Lok Sabha polls.

Addressing the News 18 Rising India Summit on Saturday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said if secularism meant not taking sides, then there was "nobody more secular" than the nation's Hindu majority.