Politics

The government is making one last effort to push this Bill through the Rajya Sabha on Tuesday, the penultimate day of last parliament session before the Lok Sabha elections.

The US-based scholar says Shankaracharya Swaroopanand Saraswati was a Congressman with family and business before taking ‘sanyas’. He has the support of Congress governments.

This will be Priyanka Gandhi's maiden visit to Uttar Pradesh after she formally entered politics last month.

During the past few days, several media reports had claimed that the former Indian opener could be fielded by the BJP to take on Congress' Deepender Singh Hooda, who is a three-time MP from Rohtak.

In a marathon reply to the debate, Modi said the Congress keeps bringing up 1947 like BC and AD whenever the current government speaks about its achievements since 2014 when it came to power.

The dichotomy of the Congress high command supporting Mamata Banerjee and the state unit protesting against her shows the extent to which its strength has weakened before elections.

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra alleged that Vadra "bought eight to nine properties in London" from the money he got as kickbacks in 2008-09 when the UPA was in power.

The MLA claimed she was removed from all official WhatsApp groups of the Aam Aadmi Party as well.

Recently, the Akali Dal spokesperson had threatened to sever the decades-old tie with ruling party, alleging ‘interference in religious matters of the Sikhs’ by the ruling party in the Centre.

The JD(S) patriarch sympathised with the Bengal government led by Mamata Banerjee and said he was shocked to learn about the CBI rushing to arrest the Kolkata Police Commissioner and the subsequent developments.

In an effort to not let the allies feel left out, Rahul Gandhi assured that it was the 'gathbandhan sarkar' (coalition government) that would come to power after Lok Sabha polls.

While the three women leaders - Mayawati, Mamata Banerjee and Priyanka Gandhi - pose challenge to Modi's grip on power, he cannot be accused of ignoring women's issues during his first term. He has launched government campaigns for women.

Yadav’s letter came soon after former RJD MP Mohammad Shahabuddin's nephew Yusuf was murdered on Friday in Siwan, 162 km from here.

Rawat government's biggest achievement has been the elimination of corruption, Shah said.

Amit Shah said opposition leaders who often ‘roar’ looked so serious when finance minister Piyush Goyal presented the budget.

Leader of Congress in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge said the BJP has not told the people on what they have achieved during their rule and how many promises it has fulfilled in its five years of government.