Politics

In his annual speech, RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says funds for the Scheduled Castes Sub-Plan and Tribal Sub-Plan are not utilised in time and then diverted at year-end.

BJP Goa unit president Vinay Tendulkar said more legislators from Congress may join either the saffron party or the regional parties that are part of the Manohar Parrikar-led coalition government.

Shivpal Yadav reached the bungalow with supporters on Wednesday morning and performed religious rituals before entering it.

The Patna Sahib MP, who has often been critical of his own party and the Narendra Modi-led central government on many issues, was seen along with the RJD heir apparent at the Puja pandal in Dak Bungalow Road.

The Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party leader said the provision of amenities showed that Yadav was being given protection by the BJP.

Chhattisgarh will have polls in two phases on November 12 and November 20 and votes will be counted on December 11.

Congress spokesperson R.P.N Singh alleged that PM Modi has not bothered about rising fuel prices for the past and is now holding meetings with heads of oil companies when assembly elections in five states are nearing.

Scindia said the general election next year will be a 'different ball game altogether' and if state alliances don't work out, the possibilities still exist for a coalition in 2019.

Of the 40 wards going to polls, 20 fall in Srinagar city's downtown area, where the voter turnout has been generally low since the eruption of militancy in the state in 1989.

Sources close to Shivpal Yadav said that this newly allotted property could be used as the office for his recently-founded political outfit. A source claimed that preparations are in full swing at the bungalow to welcome the leader.

Recently, Mulayam had appeared at the SP rally in Delhi's Jantar Mantar in what was seen as open support to his son in the legacy battle in Yadav pariwar. However, the sight of Mulayam with his brother Shivpal has once again created ripples in political c...

Repeatedly calling Gandhi a 'clown prince', the BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra at a press conference also alleged the Congress leader comes from 'a family of middlemen' and his his father and former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was 'officially a middleman'...

Gandhi said the prime minister during the 2014 Lok Sabha election had said he wanted to be a 'chowkidar' but never clarified for whom he wanted to become the 'chowkidar'.

Around 85,000 voters including 40,800 women are eligible to vote in the valley. Heavy polling was witnessed in Kargil and Leh, which recorded turnouts of 78 per cent and 52 per cent respectively.

JAYS has offered Ashish Chaturvedi a ticket from Gwalior-East as he is a Gwalior native, while Anand Rai, an Indore resident, has been offered to fight elections on Adivasi Yuva ticket from Indore-V.

Rahul also indicated he was "flexible" in his efforts to rope in BSP for Assembly polls, especially in MP where the Congress has been out of power for 15 years now.