Politics

Abhishek Banerjee was the party observer for Purulia and Bankura districts. Now, senior ledaer Shubhendu Adhikari has been given the charge of those two districts where the BJP has made deep inroads.

Sahoo, a three-term MLA from Nayagarh, is known for sharing a close rapport with V Karthikeyan Pandian, the all-powerful private secretary of Odisha Chief Minister and BJD supremo Naveen Patnaik.

After his meeting with the Governor, Reddy called on Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao at Pragati Bhavan, the latter's official residence in the city. The YSR Congress chief would stay at his home here for the night, sources said.

Top alliance leaders, including JD(U)'s Nitish Kumar, Shiv Sena's Uddhav Thackeray and Akali Dal's Parkash Singh Badal, extended their party's support after Modi was elected as the leader of the BJP parliamentary party at first.

The Hindustani Awam Morcha is an ally of the RJD-Congress-led Grand Alliance, which won only one of the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar. The NDA won 39 seats.

TRS sources pointed out that the party was successful in 10 of the 17 seats along with ally AIMIM. BJP's vote percentage rose to about 20 per cent from 10 per cent in assembly elections held in last December as the voters preferred Modi's leadership as it...

The rival Congress party has criticised the Kerala Chief Minister saying that his arrogance and the way in which h handles the Sabarimala issue had led to the left front's failure.

The council of ministers led by PM Modi submitted their resignation on Friday which was accepted by President Kovind, paving way for formation of new government.

An aggressive attack was launched on Mamata Banerjee by the BJP’s top functionaries, aided at every step by old RSS hands — Shiv Prakash, Arvind Menon and Sunil Deodhar

Her poem opens with the clear message that the Bengal Chief Minister neither believes in 'the colour of communalism' nor 'selling religious aggression'.

A senior party leader said that a number of young faces are likely to be inducted into the council of ministers as the BJP leadership has been working to groom a second line of leadership.

The saffron party bagged the top position in all the assembly segments of Northwest Delhi, South Delhi, New Delhi, West Delhi parliamentary constituencies.

After a gap of 15 years, the Congress managed to form a government in Madhya Pradesh in December 2018 with a wafer-thin majority.

Though party leaders gave a rousing welcome to Thakur with crackers being burst, former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan was missing on the occasion.

Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg, Revenue Secretary Ajay Bhushan Pandey, Expenditure Secretary G C Murmu, Financial Services Secretary Rajiv Kumar and DIPAM Secretary Atanu Chakraborty were present in the meeting.

In the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, the Congress party's vote share was 33.10 per cent and the SAD's 26.30 per cent. The vote share of AAP and the BJP stood at 24.40 and 8.70 per cent respectively.