Politics

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Sitharaman, 58, India's first full-time woman defence minister, took charge of the key ministry in the presence of her predecessor Arun Jaitley. Indira Gandhi, as prime minister, had also held the portfolio.

Addressing party workers in the city, Gandhi exuded confidence that the Congress, in opposition in Gujarat for nearly two decades, would come to power after the polls, likely to be held later this year.

The promotion of Naqvi, Pradhan, Sitharaman and Goyal, who were all State Ministers with independent charge, looks like an endorsement of their performance.

Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, P P Chaudhury, Jitendra Singh and Niramala Sitharaman were also present at the strategy meet held for Gujarat assembly elections.

The indefinite shutdown in the hills entered its 76th day on August 29. The unrest had begun on June 8 over the GJM’s allegation that the State was trying to impose Bengali language in the hills.

The Nandyal by-Election campaign was bitter, as bitter as the rivalry between TDP and YSRCP. Andhra chief minister Chandrababu Naidu and Jaganmohan Reddy spared nothing to defeat each other.

RJD chief Lalu Prasad Yadav acknowledged that Mayawati joining the alliance is crucial for a united opposition as she has a huge vote base in Uttar Pradesh.

Senior Congress leader P Chidambaram on Sunday said the Tamil Nadu assembly has 233 members and the Governor should not allow time to "artificially alter strength".

Stalin said the Governor should ensure that Palaniswami does not continue in power by creating a constitutional crisis and misusing anti-defection law.

The polls saw late night drama as the Election Commission reject votes of two rebel Congress MLAs for violating electoral rules, thus enabling Patel to with 44 votes. It seems the BJP got its poll arithmetic wrong.

The National Conference working president was reacting to the developments in Gujarat Rajya Sabha polls where Ahmad Patel is seeking a fifth term to the Upper House.

This means the resort politics Congress played over the last few days — keeping MLAs safe in faraway Karnataka — has not worked fully.

Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Sushil Modi claimed that Rabri Devi, a former chief minister, owned 18 flats in a housing complex, and to avoid Income Tax and other agencies, sold three to a member of a sand mafia in June 17 this year.

Tejashwi is scheduled to start his Yatra from Champaran on Wednesday where he will “seek forgiveness” in front of Mahatma Gandhi's memorial for his party's decision to support Nitish in 2015.

Both the Nationalist Congress Party and the Congress party stalled the proceedings of the Legislative Assembly session several times, demanding Mehta’s resignation. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has ordered a probe into the matter.