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Baijal has been holding meetings with officers at the camp office at his residence, which is just behind the L-G Secretariat where Kejriwal and his three ministers have been staging the sit-in since Monday evening.

The former UP chief minister had started his parliamentary career from Kannauj and has been a three-time MP from the seat.

This was the first meeting between Rahul Gandhi and Pranab Mukherjee since the latter's visit to Nagpur on June 7.

Mishra, in a tweet, said: "We have three demands: Kejriwal should end his drama, return to work and provide water to the people of the city."

On the question of who will be the potential PM candidate of the alliance if they get the numbers, Sitaram Yechury said there is no dearth of good candidates.

Refuting rumours that he had demanded 25 out of 40 Lok Sabha seats from Bihar, Kumar said that discussions over seat sharing will be held closer to the elections. He sought to put the blame on political leaders trying to seek "publicity" by making out of...

The four-member committee will probe if the backwards and MBCs are getting reservation in proportion to their numbers. The panel will be known as ‘Uttar Pradesh Pichda Varg Samajik Nyay Samiti’.

Muslim Rastriya Manch's National Convenor said that the organisation will organise an 'Eid Milan' programme in New Delhi on June 19, to which Muslim clerics and RSS leaders will be invited.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav met days after the RJD won the Jokihat assembly seat in Bihar in a bypoll, defeating the ruling JD(U).

In his speech at the very sanctum sanctorum of the RSS in Nagpur, former president Pranab Mukherjee defined nationhood for the Sangh’s 700-odd cadets.

The Congress leader said that private investment, private consumption, exports and government expenditures were four growth engines of an economy. Likening it to a car, he said, "If one or two tyres are punctured, it will slow down but in our case, three...

Demanding strict action against the returning officers for their alleged involvement in coming up with such "fraudulent" electoral rolls, the Congress leaders also said the EC should not deploy them on poll duty in the future.

The Supreme Court had on May 7, 2018, said former chief ministers of Uttar Pradesh cannot retain government accommodation after demitting office.

Kushwaha had already termed BJP's behaviour towards its allies as a "big brotherly attitude" in a statement soon after the poll results on Thursday. He called this attitude the reason for a growing discontent among some sections of the NDA.

In Madhya Pradesh, a pre-poll alliance or an opposition 'mahagathbandhan' like that in Kairana looks like a strong possibility with both Congress and BSP sending feelers to each other.

The BJP's loss in Kairana Lok Sabha and Noorpur assembly by-elections to joint rival candidates following a similar drubbing in Gorakhpur and Pulpur Lok Sabha by-polls has made it abundantly clear that it is at a numerical disadvantage to a combined oppos...