India Political Highlights: Cong ready with list of candidates for K'taka polls, pending high command nod

Here are today's political highlights from India.

Cong ready with list of candidates for K'taka polls, pending high command nod

The Congress in Karnataka on Thursday said its screening committee has finalised the list of candidates for most of the assembly seats for the upcoming elections, and will soon send it to the party high command for approval.

The party also said the list will be released once the election dates are announced by the Election Commission. (PTI)

Politics of education will defeat politics of jail: Manish Sisodia pens open letter from jail

Former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Thursday penned an open letter on 'Politics of Education' vs 'Politics of Jail' while in custody alleging that BJP's problem with politics of education is that it "builds nations, not leaders."

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AAP cites K'taka bribery case, slams BJP for 'double standards' over Sisodia arrest

ED arrested Sisodia because CBI couldn't find anything, says Kejriwal

No political strategy or party can justify compromising democracy, says Dhankhar

Budget to maintain & develop all Jyotirlinga temples in Maharashtra: Shinde

Kejriwal urges new Delhi ministers to carry on the 'good work' done by Sisodia, Satyendar Jain

After taking oath, Delhi minister Atishi slams BJP over Sisodia's arrest

People of Telangana will end 'Nizam raj': BJP slams BRS

Maharashtra Dy CM Fadnavis interacts with media post Budget presentation

AAP MLAs Atishi and Saurabh Bharadwaj take oath as Delhi ministers

BJP MLA Madal, whose son was seen taking bribes, appears before Lokayukta in B'luru

Conrad Sangma chairs first cabinet meeting of MDA 2.0

The first cabinet meeting of the Meghalaya Democratic Alliance 2.0 government on Thursday approved a bill to formally repeal the Meghalaya Regulation of Gaming Act, 2021.

Chief Minister Conrad K Sangma chaired the cabinet meeting which also approved an amendment of the contingency fund bill 2023, an ordinance of which was approved by the cabinet earlier this year. (PTI)

8-member CPI(M), CPI, Cong delegation to visit Tripura post poll violence area

ECI team arrives in B'luru to review poll prep ahead of Assembly elections

When will Congress shed its arrogance and face reality, asks K Kavitha

BJP's MO - send ED before Modi comes to Telangana, says K Kavitha

Women's Bill was in manifesto of BJP in 2014 and 2019 but now no BJP leaders speak about it: K Kavitha

Don't give another chance to those who propagate 'One Nation, One Friend': K Kavitha

Cong no more a national party, just a big regional party, says K Kavitha

Salute Sonia Gandhi for taking all efforts to get Women's Bill passed in Rajya Sabha in 2008: Kavitha Kalvakuntla

Maharashtra cabinet meeting under way to pass the State budget 2023-24

AIADMK District Secretaries Meeting under way in Chennai

AIADMK's EPS reaches party headquarters in Chennai for a dist secretaries meeting

NPP's Thomas Sangma elected unopposed as speaker of Meghalaya Assembly

Even Bihar delegates visited TN & returned with full satisfaction: Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin on rumours of 'attack' on Bihar migrants in the state

When you look at the functions so far, the Governors have only mouths, there seem to be no ears: Tamil Nadu CM MK Stalin

Janata Dal (United) dissolves its Nagaland state committee with immediate effect

BJP-Congress slugfest continues on Rahul's London statement

The Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress are at loggerheads overRahulGandhi's statements in London on various platforms with the BJP alleging that the Congress leader tried to get intervention from the West.

The Congress, however, has countered this and said that the BJP is twisting the facts.

Now, the Congress is saying that the BJP is rattled since he attacked the RSS. "It is built along the lines of the Muslim Brotherhood and the idea is to use the democratic contest to come to power and then subvert the democratic contest afterwards. And it shocked me at how successful they have been at capturing the different institutions of our country -- the press, the judiciary, Parliament, Election Commission -- all the institutions are under pressure, under threat and controlled in one way or the other,"RahulGandhihad said.

Maha Oppn bloc holds meet, decides to hold rallies; Uddhav, Ajit Pawar in attendance

Former Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Wednesday attended a meeting of the three-party Opposition alliance MVA and it was decided all the constituents will come together to hold rallies in different parts of the state to take on the Eknath Shinde-BJPgovernment, sources said. The meeting of the Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) was held at Vidhan Bhavan in south Mumbai. The state legislature is currently having its budget session. Besides Thackeray, who heads the Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray), Congress leaders Satej Patil and Yashomati Thakur and Leader of Opposition in the state Assembly Ajit Pawar of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) were present at the meeting.

Mizoram: Congress announces candidates for first Lunglei Municipal Council polls

The Congress on Wednesday released its list of candidates for the elections to the newly-created Lunglei Municipal Council (LMC) in Mizoram.

The Congress fielded candidates in all 11 seats of the civic body, the elections for which will be held on March 29.

State Congress president Lalsawta asked the candidates to work for the development of Lunglei, the second-largest town in Mizoram after state capital Aizawl.