India Political highlights: Kejriwal says ordinance on services matter was brought because 'threat of ED, CBI' failed in Delhi

CPI(M) General Secy to visit Manipur from Aug 18 to 20, says 'we are going to express solidarity with people of Manipur.'

CPI(M) General Secretary Sitaram Yechury leaves for Manipur

"People have already made up their minds and waiting for the election..." says BJP leader on Chhattisgarh Assembly elections

Union Home Minister Amit Shah will be visiting Madhya Pradesh on August 20

BJP MP Poonamben Maadam says verbal spat with MLA Rivaba Jadeja 'a misunderstanding'. The duo got involved into an argument regarding the "use of slippers" while paying tributes to martyrs.

"No promises made by Congress for various sectors be it education or any other have been fulfilled," says BJP leader on Chhattisgarh Assembly elections

One of the BJP MLAs said that Manipur is not important and they walked out of Delhi Assembly Session: AAP's Saurabh Bharadwaj

'PM Modi has no concern for people of Manipur,' says CPI MP

UP CM Yogi thanks PM Modi for giving Uttar Pradesh the opportunity to host several G20 events

"I thank PM Modi for giving Uttar Pradesh the opportunity to host several G20 events, including this Y20 Summit in Varanasi," says UP CM Yogi Adityanath at the Y20 Summit.

PM Modi addresses regional Panchayati Raj Council

"The fundamental strength of the BJP is its worker, and worker is a party post (in BJP) who always remains with us," says PM Modi at Zila Panchayat Members Conference.

Prime Minister, you have changed the political culture within the party and also in the politics of India. Today, people are working with the feeling that how the person standing at the last rung in society can get strength and how we can serve them: JP Nadda, BJP chief addresses Kshetriya Panchayati Raj Parishad in Daman & Diu

"Select three (social) problems in a year and give four months to each of them; decide that we will work on this along with the departmental work. You will see that you will end up solving 15 such problems easily in five years," PM Modi tells zila panchayat members.

'We cannot trust this party (AAP). There is corruption in their politics,' Cong leader on Lok Sabha elections 2024

'If BRS party leaders are trying to create havoc why aren't they arrested? Why I'm I being house-arrested?' says YRS Telangana Party president YS sharmila

Kamal Nath and party workers show posters alleging 50% commission corruption charge against MP govt

TMC releases Star Campaigners' List for bypolls in 15-Dhupguri (SC) Assembly Constituency

Supreme Court holds Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader and former MP Prabhunath Singh guilty in 1995 double murder case, overturns Patna HC order acquitting him

SC agrees to list a plea of CBI challenging the bail granted to Lalu Prasad Yadav in the fodder scam case

Supreme Court agrees to list a plea of CBI challenging the bail granted by Jharkhand High Court to Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Lalu Prasad Yadav in the fodder scam case CBI mentions before the Supreme Court seeking urgent listing of its plea to cancel the bail of Lalu Prasad Yadav.

Amit Shah holds meeting with Board of Directors of KRIBHCO

Why is the BJP running away from the discussion on the alleged scam in the construction of the Dwarka Expressway?: AAP Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj

AAP Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj says, "...Why is the BJP running away from the discussion on the alleged scam in the construction of the Dwarka Expressway?... You cannot make the Speaker agree to what you are saying at gunpoint. The Speaker said I will give you a chance to speak. They misbehaved with our Dalit Speaker earlier also & today they did the same. We will not tolerate this..."

Privileges Committee to summon suspended MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Aug 30, sources say.

Ajay Rai, who was recently appointed as the Congress chief in Uttar Pradesh, on Friday said that Rahul Gandhi would contest election from Amethi.

BJP topples governments through money or threat of ED and CBI; both these failed in Delhi: Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in Assembly.

Kejriwal says ordinance on services matter was brought because money power and threat of ED and CBI had failed in Delhi.

If Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain join BJP today, they will get bail; but they are determined not to bow down: Arvind Kejriwal in Assembly.

The CM says Delhi was earlier know for CNG scam, CWG scam, but now people talk about mohalla clinics, schools, hospital here.

The president of Assam unit of All India Trinamool Congress, Ripun Bora Friday alleged that the ruling BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi see corruption only in opposition parties but are silent on charges against the saffron party.

Nine re-elected and newly elected members of the Rajya Sabha will take oath on August 21 in Rajya Sabha chamber of Parliament House. These members are Trinamool Congress's Dola Sen, Sukhendu Shekhar Ray, Derek O' Brein, Prakash Chik Baraik, Samirul Islam, and Bharatiya Janata Party's Nagendra Ray, Kesridevsinh Digvijaysinh Jhala, Babubhai Jesangbhai Desai and Dr S. Jaishankar. (ANI)

History cannot be buried or changed by removing names: Farooq Abdullah

History cannot be buried or changed by removing the names of leaders who have not been a part of the BJP, it will "emerge" and "remain", said National Conference president Farooq Abdullah on Friday. "They are removing Nehru’s and Indira Gandhi's name. They are removing the names of every leader who is not a part of them, but history does not change," Abdullah told reporters here when asked that the Jammu and Kashmir administration has dropped 'Sher' – the popular name of his father and National Conference (NC) founder Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah from the Kashmir International Convention Centre. (PTI)

Former Madhya Pradesh BJP MLA Bhanwar Singh Shekhawat on Friday refuted speculation that he would join the Congress saying he had not received any invite from the opposition party and nor had he been contacted by its state unit chief Kamal Nath. (PTI)

Nine NCP ministers have been entrusted with the task of strengthening the party organisation in Maharashtra with Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar being given charge of Pune, Satara, Sangli and Solapur districts, a statement said on Friday. Praful Patel, national working president of the NCP faction of Ajit Pawar, has been given the responsibility of strengthening the organisation in Bhandara, Gondia, Amravati, Wardha and Nagpur by the state unit chief, it said. (PTI)