Politics

Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Sena president Uddhav Thackeray will announce the quantum of seat sharing through a joint statement, senior state BJP minister Chandrakant Patil said.

Namita Mundada was earlier this month declared as the NCP's candidate from Kaij Assembly constituency in Beed for the Assembly elections, scheduled to be held on October 21.

Lalu Prasad's estranged daughter-in-law Aishwarya Roy said that since Saturday she has been being denied access to the kitchen. A personal staff of my mother-in-law rudely told me that it has been locked, Roy added.

The announcement came on a day when Home Minister Amit Shah said that there were no restrictions imposed in Kashmir.

Tazeen Fatima is also a member of the Upper House from Samajwadi Party. The Rampur assembly seat went vacant after Khan was elected to Lok Sabha earlier this year.

According to a press note from the party's general secretary incharge Mukul Wasnik, the candidates have been approved by Congress President Sonia Gandhi for the bypolls in the four states and the one Union territory.

The government may have reduced corporate taxes but that does not encourage corporates to invest more as there is no money in the market.

An emotional Ajit, whose resignation on Friday ahead of Maharashtra elections shocked political circles, also denied that there was any rift within the Pawar family.

Citing proceedings in the SC on Thursday regarding the pleas filed by 17 disqualified MLAs, the EC said it has decided that the nomination process will restart on November 11 as per the new schedule.

The Union minister said it is necessary to enact a stringent law and those who breach it should face punishments like revocation of their voting rights and economic curbs irrespective of their religions.

As many as 4,135 new voters, including 1,448 women, were registered during an enrollment drive undertaken in July.

Although a section of the party was opposed to Bhuria's nomination due to his loss in the Lok Sabha polls, his proximity to Congress interim chief Sonia Gandhi reportedly earned him the favour.

Devendra Fadnavis also clarified that the BJP-led state government had no role in the ED booking Sharad Pawar for money laundering.

The talks between the AIMIM and the VBA had hit a roadblock recently over sharing of seats. Prakash Ambedkar has said that VBA would contest all the 288 seats in the state.

The message that the party wants to send out through the gesture is loud and clear — that the Congress not only firmly backs its leaders in jail but also that it will want to spell it out as a case of political witch-hunt against their party.

UP chief minister said the tax rate cuts will tremendously benefit the automobile sector and capital intensive industries like construction and engineering.