Politics

The BJP has been winning Aonla since 2009, the year Maneka Gandhi wrested it from Janata Dal (United). She moved to the Pilibhit constituency in 2014 and Dharmendra Kashyap has been winning the Aonla seat for the BJP since then and is looking for a third...

The home minister said PM Modi had ensured almost 100 per cent freedom from terrorism in 10 years and Naxalism had been eliminated by around 95 per cent

The home minister said the BJP would win all 80 seats in UP ‘if everything goes well’ as he suggested the Congress should have fielded a party worker instead of the siblings in the state

SP chief Akhilesh Yadav’s wife Dimple Yadav is contesting from the Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat and his cousins Akshay Yadav and Aditya Yadav are contesting from Firozabad and Badaun seats respectively.

The 29-year-old comedian from Rajasthan, who became popular by mimicking PM Modi, announced that he will contest the Lok Sabha polls from Varanasi

Former Punjab Police additional director general Gurinder Singh Dhillon was welcomed into the party fold by Devendra Yadav, the AICC's Punjab in-charge

Sunita Kejriwal, whose application to meet her husband was earlier denied by the Tihar jail administration, was granted permission for the meeting on Monday, according to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)

The statement said that the party was also informed that in case it does not agree with the decision of the committee, it can file an appeal before the state-level Media Certification and Monitoring Committee

Responding a question by Network18 Group Editor Rahul Joshi on Yadav and Rahul Gandhi coming together, the prime minister said the people of Uttar Pradesh know what is good for them

Gandhi, who touched Odisha during his ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’, wooed voters with his party’s performance in Telangana and Karnataka, promising similar guarantees

The Delhi poll panel said certain images and phrases are "slanderous" remarks and "criticism of the ruling party on the basis of unverified facts" and also cast aspersions on the judiciary and police

Speaking to Network18 Group Editor-in-Chief Rahul Joshi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the BJP’s vision for the country is clearly laid out in its manifesto and indicated that inheritance tax is not remotely part of it

The former Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister, who is the BJP's in-charge of the election campaign in Maharashtra, also said his party had no plans to change the Constitution as claimed by Congress

Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was accompanied by his uncle Ram Gopal Yadav and other senior SP leaders. Tej Pratap Singh Yadav had been announced as the party's Kannauj candidate earlier this week

Kharge said the Congress’ manifesto is aimed at providing ‘nyay’ (justice) to the youth, women, farmers, labourers and the marginalised people of all castes and communities

The ECI said that as a national party, they are “expected to be the standard bearer in political and campaign discourse” and as such should also set high standards of compliance of the model code of conduct.