Politics

NDPP candidate Awan Konyak was the first Konyak woman to contest elections and one of the five women to have entered the election fray in Nagaland this year.

The BJP has been on a winning spree in the North East, but CPM feels Chief Minister Manik Sarkar can keep the saffron party at bay in Tripura.

A senior CPI(M) central committee member, who did not wish to be named, echoed the view and said there is always the chance of change in the draft resolution before it is finally adopted by the party Congress.

The "pro-corporate BJP" is following fascist policies and it is essential to go for state-specific electoral tactics to take on the BJP-led front, Reddy had said.

The BJP began its 'Bengaluru rakshisi padayathra' (save Bengaluru yathra) on Friday with Union Ministers Sadananda Gowda, Anantkumar Hegde and other BJP leaders flagging it off from South Bengaluru.

Although the Election Commission has not yet announced the BJD victory, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik thanked voters for their support.

The by-polls were necessitated due to the death of Congress MLAs Mahendra Singh Kalukheda (Mungaoli) and Ram Singh Yadav (Kolaras).

During an interactive session organised by a television channel, Hardik Patel said that Rahul Gandhi's sister Priyanka Gandhi should join active politics.

According to the Congress, a BJP MLA distributed money to buy voters and assaulting party workers who tried to stop them with police, in which their candidate was injured at Kolaras, after campaigning ended for by-election in Madhya Pradesh.

As the party grapples with a backlash over the murder of a Youth Congress leader in Kannur, CPIM General Secretary Sitaram Yechury said on Thursday, “violence is not part of the Communist culture”.

The Shiv Sena further said that during the earlier BJP-Sena government in the 1990s, the BJP had the deputy chief minister's post and regular joint meetings of legislators of both the parties ensured proper communication.

Naseemuddin, the Muslim face of BSP, was expelled from the party on May 10 last year for carrying out "anti-party" activities. About half a dozen former BSP legislators are also expected to join Congress along with Siddiqui.

People do not like to see a political party sitting on crores of rupees, the chief minister said adding that political parties should not be proud of money power as democracy and the voice of the people can never be purchased.

Amit Shah is scheduled to visit prominent temples in the coastal regions of Karnataka, besides meeting the families of victims of ‘communal killings’, like that of Deepak Rao who died in early January and Paresh Meshta, who died in December.

The Bahmani Sultanate and the Hindu-ruled Vijayanagar Empire were at war with each other for around two centuries. But if the accounts of medieval Persian historian and traveler Ferishta are to be believed, the southern Islamic kingdom may have had a secu...

The name was unanimously suggested after a meeting of the district Unit of the Congress in Allahabad on Wednesday. The final decision, however, will be taken by the party high command.