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Speaking exclusively to News18, Patel said that there was no scheduled meeting between him and Rahul. It was rumoured that a one-on-one was scheduled to be held in Surat on Friday.

While the average age of Congress’s candidates for the Himachal Pradesh elections is 54.39, the corresponding figure for the BJP stands at 53.82.

After the CM felicitated the family, it emerged that one of the members was Rakesh Singh, accused in a 2016 incident wherein 16 people lost their lives, allegedly after they consumed inferior-quality liquor.

Delivering some more body blows to Centre’s development claims, the saffron wing head went on to say that 19 crore people sleep empty stomach and ten crore youths in the country are jobless.

“The Prime Minister is imagining a ghost and attacking it,” said the former home minister in his rebuttal after Modi accused the Congress of speaking the language of Kashmiri separatists and elements in Pakistan.

Eighty-year-old Farooq Abdullah was re-elected unanimously at the session held at the Sher-e-Kashmir Cricket Stadium where thousands of party delegates participated in the day-long session.

Muslims account for 10% of the state’s population, but only two people from the minority community were elected as MLAs in the 182-member Assembly in the 2012 elections

Ahmed Patel issued a statement rejecting the allegations and said he had resigned as director of the hospital in 2015, a year before the suspected operative joined as an employee.

Another regional stalwart, Kamal Nath, is expected to join the AICC general secretary a couple of days after Scindia.

Congress is reportedly opposing the move which has been made in order to develop in state's college students a sense of "culture, traditions, education/patriotism in the domains of tourism and history, bravery and diligence."

The anger among people in Gujarat against the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is an indication that the BJP would face a stiff challenge in polls, scheduled to be held in December, he said.

The Social Welfare Department has forwarded the file to the CMO, suggesting benefits or welfare plans for the upper-caste poor.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had on Wednesday said that the Centre was interfering with the people's rights and privacy by asking them to link their Aadhaar with mobile numbers, and that she will not do the same even if her connection was sn...

Post 2014, Congress has been banking on its old guard in states. For instance, earlier this year, five elections took place. In three out of five occasions, Congress fought under the leadership of veterans.

The BSP chief said that she too is giving an opportunity to the Shankaracharyas, religious leaders and people associated with the BJP to change their thinking or else she too will convert to Buddhism at the right time along with crores of supporters.

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad said, "This particular announcement made on November 8 is the scam of the century, which is why we are observing this as Black Day."