Politics

People from Gandhi Nagar in Worli, where Shiv Sena scion Aaditya Thackeray is making his electoral debut, and several housing societies in Panvel say they plan to boycott the October 21 elections after being neglected by politicians.

Taking to Twitter, Nirupam said the speculations over his absence from Gandhi’s rally were baseless as he had informed the latter about skipping the event.

Yediyurappa, who also holds the finance portfolio, was responding to criticism about his purported statement that the states treasury was 'empty'.

The Congress general secretary in-charge UP East tagged a media report which said that a farmer could not repay the loan of Rs 35,000 and under pressure from the bank, consumed poison to end his life.

Speaking in the assembly, Leader of the Opposition Siddaramaiah said the Speaker has the prerogative on how to run the House, but the media too is an important part of democracy like the legislature.

Kumari Selja blamed the Khattar government for 'rising unemployment, drug abuse, the mining mafia, the transport mafia and the closure of industrial units'. She claimed that Haryana had the highest unemployment rate in the country.

Addressing a rally at Jat in Sangli district to campaign for the upcoming Maharashtra Assembly polls, Amit Shah said that Rahul Gandhi and Sharad Pawar should make it clear if they favour scrapping of Article 370.

Siddaramaiah now ceases to be a member of the Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making body of the party.

The voting for 11 assembly states is due on October 21 and the counting for all the seats will be held three days later.

Addressing a poll rally for Shiv Sena candidate Prakash Abitkar in Radhanagari tehsil in Kolhapur district, Patil also took potshots at Pawar's party, which is hit by defections.

On October 4, an FIR was lodged against nearly 50 celebrities, including Ramchandra Guha, Mani Ratnam and Aparna Sen, who had written an open letter to PM Modi raising concern over the growing incidents of mob lynching.

Ashok Panigrahi, who had defected from the BJD in 2018 and lost the Bijepur bypoll that year, alleged on Monday he is not being informed about or involved in party activities in the Assembly segment.

BJP is keen to bag the seat, vacated by Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik, due to the party’s impressive performance in western Odisha in the Lok Sabha polls.

Union minister Jitendra Singh said the government had resolved to take strict action not only against terrorists, but also against their promoters and self-styled publicists.

Hitting out at the opposition for making unemployment in Haryana a major poll issue, Khattar alleged that those who were active in corrupt practices, "all of them have become unemployed now".

Sawhney, who was a close aide of former Delhi CM Sheila Dikshit, said he has not joined the party for getting a ticket to contest the upcoming assembly polls but to work towards development of Delhi.