India Political Highlights: Amit Shah reaches Gandhinagar to attend party meeting for upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections

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Everybody thinks he made the statement deliberately: Assam CM on TMC leader's remark on president

BJP meeting underway at party headqaurters in Delhi

Congress releases list of candidates for MCD polls

Minister Amit Shah and State BJP Chief CR Paatil reaches Gandhinagar for party meeting regarding upcoming Gujarat polls

Gujarat: Around 19 villages to boycott elections as they demand local trains to stop at 'Ancheli Railway Station' again

We know that people are unhappy with current government: Maharashtra Cong Prez Nana Patole

HD Devegowda is diamond of Karnataka: State JD(S) President

Former PM & party's national president HD Devegowda not invited to Kempegowda statue inauguration: JD(S)

AAP sold ticket to Deepu Chaudhary for Rs 3 cr: AAP's Haseeb-ul-Hasan who climbed a transmission tower over not being given ticket for MCD poll

Priyanka questioned about her father's killing: Rajiv Gandhi assassination convict Nalini Sriharan

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In 1857 struggle, freedom fighters fought with roti in one hand & lotus in another: Rajnath Singh

SP candidate Dimple Yadav to file nomination for Mainpuri bypolls Monday

Samajwadi Party candidate for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypolls Dimple Yadav is likely to file her nomination papers on Monday, a senior party leader said.

The 44-year-old wife of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav will file her nomination at the Mainpuri collectorate on Monday afternoon, Alok Shakya, district president of the Samajwadi Party's Mainpuri district unit, told PTI.

Maharashtra's political atmosphere has become polluted: Sanjay Raut

Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Sunday claimed Maharashtra's political atmosphere has become polluted where many people are out to "destroy" each other.

Raut said he realised this again after coming out of jail on November 9. The Rajya Sabha member was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case on August 1 this year and granted bail by a court in Mumbai on November 9. On Sunday, he resumed his weekly column Rokhthok in 'Saamana', the Uddhav Thackeray-led Sena faction's mouthpiece of which he is the executive editor.

AAP turns MCD polls into high-stakes battle

Afterruling the national capital Delhi for 7-years, the stakes on the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are high to end the 15-year rule of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the MCD. This is the second time that the party is fighting a full fledged election for the MCD after its formation.

Former AAP Councillor climbs transmission tower

Cong, AAP make old pension scheme restoration demand major poll plank in Gujarat

The demand for restoration of the old pension scheme (OPS) has emerged as a major poll plank in Gujarat with both the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party promising to implement it if voted to power in the state where the Assembly elections are scheduled next month.

With this promise, the opposition parties aim to garner the support of lakhs of government employees who are up in arms against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) government over the new pension scheme. Elections for the 182 member Gujarat Assembly will be held in two phases on December 1 and 5.

Congress yatra will establish Rahul as serious politician but single goal focus missing in march: Analysts

RahulGandhi's ongoing Bharat Jodo Yatra will establish the Congress MP as a serious politician and provide him heft to take on his formidable opponent BJP, but the cross-country march should have focused on specific issues to leave a lasting impact, according to political observers. The 3,570-km-long foot-march of the Congress, which started from Tamil Nadu on September 7, entered Maharashtra on November 7. TheGandhi-led yatra will reach almost halfway mark after entering Madhya Pradesh on November 20 in Burhanpur district.

BJP MP Chatterjee files complaint Akhil Giri for his derogatory remarks on president

BJP MP Locket Chatterjee files a complaint with North Avenue PS against the derogatory remarks on President Droupadi Mumru by WB Min & TMC leader Akhil Giri in Nandigram. Chatterjee has requested immediate action & FIR against Giri under sections of IPC and SC-ST Act.

BJP attacks Manish Sisodia

BJP leader Samir Oraon allegedly attacked by Tipra Motha supporters in Tripura

BJP ST Morcha national president Samir Oraon injured in Barmura, Khowai district after being attacked allegedly by Tipra Motha supporters. Party leaders Bikash Debbarma & Bidyut Debbarma were also with him at the time of attack. They were returning to Agartala after a meeting

"Beware of these 'Lootera's": BJP targets Manish Sisodia

India still paying the price of Nehru's multiple 'policy failures', says BJP spokesman

The country has to bear the brunt of "wrong policies" of India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru for decades, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has said while terming his policies on national security, economy and foreign affairs as failures.

From 1951 to 1977, the Bharatiya Jana Sangh and then from 1980 to till now, the leaders of theBJP, have been constantly targeting Nehru for his policies.

From Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Deendayal Upadhyaya to Atal Bihari Vajpayee, L.K. Advani and the current Prime Minister Narendra Modi, they all have been critical about the policies of the country's first Prime Minister on many fronts including the Jammu and Kashmir issue.

RSS chief Bhagwat arrives at Ranchi airport

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat arrives at Ranchi airport. He will go to Lohardaga to attend a programme and then proceed to Jashpur in Chhattisgarh.

AAP is a failed political start-up: Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma

AAP is a failed political start-up. Even after 10 years they haven’t progressed to become an MSME. Since 10 years they are trying to sell same product without any proof of delivery, saysAssam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma.

BJP twists history: Siddaramaiah

Why can't Tipu statue be built? Let them build, doesn't he deserve it? BJP twists history, saysSiddaramaiah on Cong MLA Tanveer Sait's statement of plan to install a 100-ft statue of Tipu Sultan.

Maharashtra: Writers, artists extend support to Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra

Nearly 250 writers and artists on Saturday extended support to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's ongoingBharatJodoYatrawhich is passing through Maharashtra's Hingoli district.

A delegation of writers including Ganesh Devy, Pratibha Shinde and Lakshmikant Deshmukh met Gandhi at Kalamnuri and handed him a memorandum besides having a discussion with him.

This country can't be divided, hatred can't be spread is Bharat Jodo Yatra's message: Rahul Gandhi

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday said the message of theBharatJodoYatraled by him is that India can't be divided and hatred won't be allowed to be spread. AddressingYatraparticipants before the foot march halted at night here in his friend and former Congress MP Rajiv Satav's home district Hingoli, Gandhi also recalled the association he had with the late leader. Saturday was the sixth day of theyatrain Maharashtra after it commenced from Kanyakumari on September 7.

Cong announces 4th list of candidates for Gujarat polls

The Congress on Saturday released its fourth list of nine candidates for the Gujarat assembly elections scheduled to be held in December in two phases.

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PM welcomed in Vizag but KCR's Hyd says 'Bye Bye Modi'

A rousing reception organised by the ruling YSRCP in Visakhapatnam in the morning and outright rejection in the afternoon by the TRS in Hyderabad complete with “No-Entry to Telangana” banners — the response to PM Modi's tour of the twin Telugu states has been divided.

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AAP announces second list of 117 candidates for MCD polls

The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday announced its final list of 117 candidates for the December 4 polls to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi.

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