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The places, mentioned by him, incidentally, are parts of BJP-ruled states. Raj had claimed that a worker of a Dalit organisation run by him in Gwalior was being tortured even though he had not done anything wrong.

Pointing at the opposition unity efforts in Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and by the DMK, the Trinamool Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party in Tamil Nadu, Rahul Gandhi asked, "Where are they (BJP) going to win seats?"

The book, titled 'Yugparvartak Swatantrata Sainani Dr Hedgewar ka antim lakshya - Bharatvarsh ki Sarwang Swantantrata', talks about how Dr KB Hedgewar, the founding sarsanghachalak of the RSS in 1925, was a freedom fighter.

Leaders of various parties on Thursday held hectic parleys over moving the motion, the first one to be ever moved against a sitting chief justice.

"I am very pained to see our erstwhile partner entering into a blame game. BJP makes friends. We are not in the habit of ditching. We value friendship but more than that, we value the people of India," union minister Prakash Javadekar said.

Naidu said PM Modi made a statement that Andhra’s new capital will be built better than Delhi and then gave just Rs 1,500 crore as funds.

Congress' Priyanka Chaturvedi who was in Bhopal, talking to the media at the Congress office, said that after the CBSE and SSC question paper leaks, now Food Corporation of India exam paper has also leaked and that has also happened from Madhya Pradesh.

In the 2013 elections, the BJP had drawn a blank in old Mysuru, which has voted the Congress or Janata Dal (Secular) for years. Siddaramaiah is the MLA from Chamundeshwari in Mysore.

Addressing a gathering to mark the death anniversary of the 17th century Maratha king at Raigad Fort in Raigad district, Bhagwat said Shivaji Maharaj is a source of inspiration for all those who want to fight against injustice and exploitation.

The call for an anti-Indira Gandhi mobilisation in 1975 was given by veteran socialist Jayprakash Narain or JP. During Emergency, opposition leaders who were put behind bars gave concrete shape to the Janata Party.

The KPCC candidates list, accessed by News18, has the names of chief minister Siddaramaiah's son Dr Yatheendra, Home Minister R Ramalinga Reddy's daughter Soumya Reddy, Seven-time Kolar MP and former Union Minister KH Muniyappa's daughter Roopa, late Cong...

Amit Shah maintained that the Siddaramaiah government's move to accord separate religious minority status to Lingayats and Veerashaiva Lingayats was aimed at preventing B S Yeddyurappa from becoming Chief Minister.

A meeting with current Congress chief Rahul Gandhi, however, is unlikely as Mamata has been projecting herself as a leader of a potential non-BJP front.

Bhide is accused of instigating the violence against Dalits during the 200th anniversary celebrations of the Bhima-Koregaon battle in January. He has denied the allegation.

Taking to Twitter, Akhilesh Yadav said that in the UP Rajya Sabha elections, the character of BJP has been revealed, accusing the party of misusing power institutions and money against the poor.

"GST is basically the Congress party's idea but our thinking was that as in Singapore there is one GST of seven per cent, similarly there should be one tax but BJP government imposed five different slabs. They have a tax of 28 per cent too," Rahul Gandhi...