Election

Amethi (UP): In a major jolt to Congress in Amethi, the son of the local party leader who was the proposer for former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, will challenge party President Rahul Gandhi in the election. Haji Haroon Rasheed, son...

Kolkata: At an election rally in West Bengal, a local leader from Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) described how workers from the state’s ruling Trinamool had disrupted a public meeting in January by destroying their vehicles. “So, we thrashed them in retaliation,...

New Delhi: The Congress Tuesday asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP to clearly spell out whether they support its proposal to give Rs 72,000 annually to five crore poor families under a minimum income guarantee scheme, claiming many BJP ministers were opposing the...

Lucknow: Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav’s decision to contest from his father Mulayam Singh's bastion Azamgarh is being touted as a move to consolidate the Yadav, Dalit and Muslim voters in the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh. The Samajwadi Party is contesting the upcoming Lok...

Gorakhpur (UP): Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath Tuesday termed the Congress' minimum income scheme a poll "gimmick" and accused it of obstructing the construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya along with the SP and BSP. "Earlier too the Congress party had given the...

Bhubaneswar: Senior BJP leader Subhas Chouhan Tuesday resigned from the saffron party to register protest against denial of party ticket to him to contest the Lok Sabha polls from Bargarh seat in Odisha. He was the vice-president of the party's Odisha unit. Chouhan handed over...

New Delhi: Leader of Opposition Delhi Vijender Gupta Tuesday accused Chief Minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal and Congress party are violating the Model Code of Conduct (MCC). Addressing the mediapersons, Mr Gupta accused Mr Kejriwal of getting printed 'publicity letters' addressed...

Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party Tuesday announced an alliance with the Nishad Party, Janwadi Party (Socialist) and the Rasthriya Samanta Dal for the April-May Lok Sabha election in Uttar Pradesh. The SP has earlier tied up with the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the Ajit...

Jaipur: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Tuesday promised a "surgical strike" on poverty and said his party had been working on how to eradicate it for the last six months. Addressing a rally in Suratgarh a day after declaring his party would roll out a minimum...

Jaipur: Former BJP leader Ghanshyam Tiwari will join the Congress in Jaipur Tuesday. Tiwari told PTI that he will join the Congress in the presence of party president Rahul Gandhi, who is scheduled to meet party workers in Jaipur's Ramlila Maidan Tuesday evening. "I struggled...