Politics

In its first meeting after constitution of the 17th Lok Sabha, the party will first elect its new leader.

For the last nine years, most of the CPI (M) offices were captured, vandalised and set afire allegedly by the Trinamool Congress workers after Mamata Banerjee came to power in 2011.

President Ram Nath Kovind will administer the oath of office and secrecy to the prime minister and other members of the Union Council of Ministers at a ceremony in Rashtrapati Bhavan on Thursday at 7pm.

Owing to deteriorating health, former Finance Minister Arun Jaitley in a letter addressed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi formally requested not to be given any responsibility in the upcoming cabinet due to be sworn in tomorrow.

Tej Pratap lamented that had Lalu Prasad been out of jail, the RJD would not have faced the rout.

The LJP's parliamentary board passed a resolution to this effect at a meeting, which was attended by its six newly-elected Lok Sabha MPs, the board's chairman and Ram Vilas Paswan's son Chirag Paswan told reporters.

Shashi Tharoor said the Congress has no time to sit and lick its wounds as it must immediately pick itself up for the upcoming state elections.

The meeting comes a day after Rahul Gandhi cancelled all his appointments for the day and Ashok Gehlot could not meet him.

After losing to the Congress in last year's assembly polls by a whisker, the BJP ensured a near whitewash of the ruling party in Madhya Pradesh in the Lok Sabha polls.

The BJP had to withdraw support to the Kumaraswamy led government as the JDS leader refused to stepdown as per 20-20 power sharing deal in 2007.

Party sources said Gandhi took back the offer to resign in the wake of the views expressed by the CWC members who wanted him to remain at the helm of the country's oldest political party.

At the rally, Modi also talked about his vision for the next five years, pro-incumbency wave this elections season.

The ADR arrived at the figure of 'crorepati' MPs after analysing the affidavits on assets and liabilities of 539 new MPs.

Thanking BJP for its support to her victory, Sumalatha congratulated the saffron party for its win both nationally and in Karnataka, by terming the landslide win as tsunami.

The family of Rajendra Singh, shot dead on Sunday, have termed it a 'political killing'.

In a landslide victory, the BJP has reigned supreme in all the four Lok Sabha constituencies in the state with every candidate winning by a margin of at least over 3 lakh votes.