Politics

The party was miffed by Rajinikanth’s speech on Sunday at an event to celebrate actor Kamal Haasan’s 60 years in Indian cinema.

BJP is yet to clear the ticket of senior leader and minister Saryu Rai from Jamshedpur West. As deadline to filing nominations nears, Rai has bought nomination papers to contest from both Jamshedpur East and West.

Malik made it clear that the objective was to give 'a stable government' to the state and any decision would be taken only in consultation with the Congress in the matter.

Yashwant Sinha alleged that Nirmala Sitharaman relied on estimates used in the interim budget of February 1, though the CAG had later provided revised estimates till July 5, when the annual budget was presented.

Speaking to reporters before a meeting of the NCP's core committee at party chief Sharad Pawar's residence here, Patil said many of the MLAs who had joined the BJP before the elections were in touch with the party.

The Shiv Sena reached out to the Congress-NCP combine for support after its alliance with the BJP collapsed.

A TMC leader said the decision to release constituency-wise manifestos was taken as the party leadership wanted the focus to be on the development of the place and not temple and NRC issues.

Former chief minister and senior National Conference (NC) leader Farooq Abdullah was detained under the controversial Public Safety Act (PSA).

Gowda claimed that soon after the apex court paved way for the disqualified MLAs to contest bypolls, Yediyurappa had said they will be made ministers.

The statement also said that Jharkhand could not be compared with other states as it has been created after a long struggle, adding the mandate would be an opportunity to fulfil the aspirations of that struggle.

The Supreme Court on Thursday gave a clean chit to the Narendra Modi government in the Rafale fighter jets deal case, saying review petitions were without merit.

Congress leaders say the previous Shivraj Singh Chouhan government had extended the Sambal yojana benefits to over 56 lakh people associated with the BJP and party workers in-charge of voter lists were beneficiaries.

Maharashtra Congress chief Balasaheb Thorat, however, dubbed the meet with Thackeray as a 'courtesy call', and said the fact that they were meeting was itself a 'positive' step.

The saffron party said it wanted to submit a deputation to Kolkata Mayor Firhad Hakim regarding the dengue menace and, if stopped, the party would resort to a sit-in demonstration.

He expressed the apprehension, alleging that the decision to impose the President Rule in the state has been taken under duress from Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Amit Shah.

Kadakampally Surendran, replying to a question posed by the lone BJP legislator O Rajagopal, also asked the saffron party not to encourage "goons and anti-socials" to go to Sabarimala.