Politics

What is happening within the Mulayam Singh Yadav family may have a simple explanation. It is not about a breakthrough in Indian socialist politics, nor is it a family unable to hide its internal strike from the public. It is about a generation gap in unde...

Training his guns at Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, suspended BJP MP Kirti Azad on Sunday said people "rejected" by the electorate have not only been made ministers but have become "all in all" in the government and the party.

Samajwadi Party (SP) on Saturday looked set for a possible split with the party leadership expelling MLC Udayveer Singh who was known to be close to Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav.

The SP supremo's cousin and party general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav has for years been the points person with the EC in Delhi, handling all correspondence and communication.

The rift within the Samajwadi Party’s first family widened on Friday with Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav skipping an important meeting called by state party chief Shivpal Yadav to strategise for assembly elections due early next year.

Accusing BJP of creating a hype over surgical strikes, Congress leader Rajeev Shukla has said BJP is trying to get "political mileage" out of the strikes and its credit should be given to Army only.

The fire tragedy, in the backdrop of the death of over 50 children due to Japanese Encephalitis in Malkangiri district, has come as a major ammunition for the opposition which demanded Nayak's resignation.

It is this division in the minority votes the BJP seems to be banking upon even as it tries to put together a larger non-Yadav-OBC and upper caste combination.

"The training of taking risks that RSS provides (helped in surgical strikes). (Prime Minister) Modi took risk (through surgical strikes)," he said.

He may be a strident critic of Narendra Modi but Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan says he shares many of his qualities like "making tea", "dressing properly" and "playing drums" and is a "fit candidate" for Prime Minister.

Barely a week after Prime minister Narendra Modi's visit to the famous aishbagh Ramleela in Lucknow on Vijayadashmi, it is now official that BJP pins hope majorly on 'Brand Modi' in the coming UP elections.

The Congress on Monday hit out at Defence Minister Manohar Parikkar for his comment that "RSS ideology inspired surgical strikes", and said that he is a "national embarrassment" and "doesn't deserve to hold his portfolio".

Aiming to firm up anti-pollution measures ahead of Diwali and the onset of winter, Delhi Environment Minister Imran Hussain on Thursday held a review meeting with DMs, SDMs, DPCC and police among others.

Both murders took place in Vijayan's Dharmadom constituency.

"The incident (that happened) in Akhlaq's (Bishada) village, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, slitting of a Dalit's throat and throwing of cow urine at a dandiya event are not isolated ones.

Exhorting people to follow the path shown by Ambedkar, the Chief Minister said it would be the real tribute to this great son of soil.