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NPP chief Conrad Sangma said the party MLAs will also withdraw their resignation as minister as senior BJP leader and Union Home Minister Amit Shah has assured to look into their issues.

All the major political parties of the state will appeal to the Centre to withdraw ordinances related to the agriculture sector in public interest and not to tinker with the MSP regime.

Patil also reiterated his claim that Maharashtra Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat had contemplated joining the BJP some years ago. Both he and Thorat hail from Ahmednagar district.

The BJP has cited this to attack the Congress as the opposition party has become increasingly aggressive against the Narendra Modi government over its handling of the border standoff with China.

Twenty Indian Army personnel, including a colonel, were killed in the clashes with Chinese troops in the Galwan Valley in eastern Ladakh on Monday night.

The Congress had accused the saffron camp of trying to poach its MLAs and destabilising the government, following which all the Congress MLAs were shifted to the JW Marriot hotel in Jaipur.

Voting for 18 seats were deferred due to the coronavirus pandemic. Later the Election Commission announced polls for fours seats in Karnataka and one seat each in Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh.

Ashok Choudhary took the step two days after he had slapped a legal notice on Yadav asking him to furnish a reply "within 10 hours of receipt" which elicited no response from the RJD CM candidate.

Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Ravinder Sharma said it was a "partial victory" for the youth and the opposition who were unanimous in their demand for its withdrawal.

The Congress is likely to win two seats, while its rival parties the BJP may get four seats and the JD(S) one as these members will be elected by the MLAs.

Shibu Soren, Congress candidate Shahzada Anwar and BJP state president Deepak Prakash had filed their nomination papers in March after the Election Commission had issued the notification for the two Rajya Seats.

While heaping praise on the Left-led Kerala government and Congress-ruled Punjab for their handling of the crisis, Gambhir said the Delhi CM only blames the Centre and never takes responsibility.

The Trinamool Congress' national spokesperson and its leader in the Rajya Sabha, Derek O'Brien, said the Centre's past dues to Bengal was a whopping Rs 53,000 crore.

Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya said social media projects Priyanka Gandhi as a "prominent national leader" but she could not even ensure victory of her brother and then party president Rahul Gandhi from Amethi in the Lok Sabha po...

LJP chief Chirag Paswan said the migrant worker situation could have been handled much better. This is the third time he has expressed unease over the handling of the crisis in the last month.

Singh reiterated his intention to contest the next Assembly elections in the state, but said the decision on leading the party rested with Gandhi.