Politics

The 10 constituencies voting in the third phase are dominated by either the backward Yadav vote bank or Muslims, with the SP-BSP alliance coming together to keep at bay the BJP's polarising politics.

Shah accused TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee of questioning the air strikes to 'appease' her minority vote bank.

Pragya Singh Thakur filed her nomination amid chanting of religious prayers by 11 priests followed by a ‘puja’.

During the by-polls held in November too, Revanna had made a similar statement claiming that the Eshwarappa had hatched a conspiracy to defeat Raghavendra.

Arun Jaitley in his blog post said that those who peddle falsehood to destroy the institution are not dealt with in an exemplary manner, this trend will only accelerate.

Accusing the Kamal Nath government of disrespecting constitutional bodies, Prof Rakesh Sinha alleged the Vice President of India was the chancellor of the university but his permission wasn’t sought for before lodging FIRs against faculty members.

The PM said he has in the five years of the BJP-led NDA government at the Centre worked to simplify lives and businesses of traders by scraping 1,500 archaic laws, simplifying processes and providing easy credit.

However, the TMC has denied any connection with the attack and has pointed at the infighting within the BJP for the attack.

The JDS veteran said he had no prime ministerial ambition but would not retire from active politics.

The incident took place on Thursday at the BJP headquarters when GVL Narasimha Rao was defending the candidature of Malegaon blast accused Sadhvi Pragya Thakur from Bhopal at a press conference.

Mayawati also cautioned, opposition leaders to not cross the line of decency and not give BJP an excuse to exploit public sentiment to hide its weaknesses.

While the BJP claims the youth will vote for development and a strong leader, the All Assam Students’ Union believes they will not be swayed by the saffron party's poll 'gimmicks'.

As the EC notification had come barely two days before the day of election and that too, without him being granted an opportunity to be heard, Kathir Anand said the entire move seemed to be politically motivated.

The BJP leader has been asked to reply within 24 hours from the receipt of the notice sent by the State Chief Electoral Officer.

On Monday, Ferdous campaigned in the Karandighi and Chakulia areas of North Dinajpur, while on Sunday, he participated in road shows at Raiganj and Hemtabad.

The Congress' decision to not field any candidate from Lucknow constituency paves way for a one-on-one faceoff between Rajnath Singh and Poonam Sinha.