Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra is likely to reach Dr B R Ambedkar's birthplace Mhow near here in Madhya Pradesh on November 26, which is celebrated as Constitution Day, a senior party leader said on Thursday.(PTI)
BSP MP Danish Ali on Thursday voiced support for Samajwadi Party leader Azam Khan, who has been convicted in a 2019 hate speech case, saying that while all hate mongers are roaming free, "Azams" will be convicted and thrown out of legislatures.
Khan was convicted in the case and sent to three years in jail, and faces disqualification from the Uttar Pradesh Assembly.(PTI)
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday said he might not campaign for the by-elections to a couple of assembly segments in the state where his current ally RJD is locked in a straight contest with former alliance partner BJP.
Kumar, who is nursing injuries he sustained recently when his motorboat crashed into the pillar of a bridge on Ganga, said this in reply to questions from journalists who asked him about his schedule for Mokama and Gopalganj where by-polls are scheduled on November 3.(PTI)
Countering the claims of the BJP that the idea to use images of Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesha on currency notes is a "political stunt", Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday said that the saffron party should implement it if it thinks the move can attract votes.(PTI)
The opposition Congress in Gujarat will take out 'Parivartan Sankalp' yatras from October 31 across five zones in the state, where Assembly polls are due by the end of this year, party functionaries said on Thursday. Schedule for the elections to the 182-member Gujarat Assembly is yet to be announced.(PTI)
PDP president Mehbooba Mufti on Thursday said India's presence in Jammu and Kashmir will be rendered illegal if the conditions of Instrument of Accession signed by Maharaja Hari Singh in October 1947 were not restored.
She said the decisions of August 5, 2029 -- when the Centre abrogated the special status of Jammu and Kashmir -- were illegal.(PTI)
The Congress on Thursday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi over the alleged exodus of Kashmiri Pandits from south Kashmir's Shopian district, saying that while he is "enjoying power", the members of the minority community remain refugees in their own country.
The Opposition party also demanded that the Modi government release a white paper on the plight of the minority community during its eight-year rule.(PTI)
The BJP on Thursday used the 75th anniversary of Jammu and Kashmir's accession to India to slam Jawaharlal Nehru for his "blunders" on the issue and asserted that Prime Minister Narendra Modi corrected them by nullifying Article 370, which granted the erstwhile state special rights.(PTI)
It is the collective responsibility of states and the Centre to effectively tackle trans-border crimes, Home Minister Amit Shah said on Thursday.
"In our Constitution, law and order is a state subject...but we can be successful against trans-border or borderless crimes only when all states sit together to ponder over them, make a common strategy and (make) efforts to curb them," he said.(PTI)
The Congress on Thursday launched a scathing attack on Kerala Governor Arif Mohammed Khan, calling him a "disgrace to the Constitutional position he holds" and expressed doubts whether the ongoing fight between the Left government and the Raj Bhavan in the southern state is a "shadow boxing bout like previous ones."(PTI)
I'm not against his statement. Lord Ganesh & Goddess Laxmi have special place in Indian culture &before doing important work we pray to them. So he's right on his part: Cong MP Manish Tewari on Delhi CM Kejriwal's appeal for Goddess Laxmi-Lord Ganesh photos in Indian currency notes.Indian currency is a reflection of sovereignty. Dr Ambedkar gave constitutional status to that sovereignty. There's flexibility to accommodate Dr Ambedkar, Lord Ganesh-Goddess Laxmi, mythological figures & even figures from the present in the currency notes: Cong MP Manish Tewari
Opposition BJP on Wednesday came down heavily on Odisha's Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) S K Lohani even as the official claimed that action was taken in the alleged 'cash-for-vote' allegation that emerged during campaigning for the Dhamnagar assembly by-poll.
The Odisha unit of the BJP had earlier alleged that the ruling BJD was using SHGs members to distribute cash among the voters.
A BJP delegation led by Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan met top Election Commission of India (ECI) officials in New Delhi during the day and lodged a formal complaint against the BJD, accusing the ruling party in Odisha of violating the model code of conduct in the run-up to the by-poll. Pradhan, along with the BJP's media co-in-charge Sanjay Mayukh, party spokesperson Sambit Patra and Om Pathak, met poll panel officials and submitted separate memoranda against the BJD government and TRS government, citing instances of violation of the model code of conduct.
Telangana ministers and leaders of ruling Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) staged protests in different parts of the state on Wednesday night to protest against what they called an attempt by the BJP to buy TRS MLAs.
TRS leaders staged a dharna at Choutuppal near Hyderabad on Vijayawada highway. Ministers Gangula Kamalakar and Indrakaran Reddy participated in the protest.
The protesters raised slogans against BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. They alleged that the saffron party was trying to pull down the TRS government by luring its MLAs with offers of money and posts.