Politics

Addressing the News 18 Rising India Summit on Saturday, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said if secularism meant not taking sides, then there was "nobody more secular" than the nation's Hindu majority.

Gandhi, in her address, gave a clarion call to the partymen to be ready for any kind of sacrifice to strengthen the party and to make the county free from discrimination, vendetta politics and arrogance.

The protest day would mark the launch of a series of campaigns with the aim of making the government accountable for the "devastating" impact of its policies and "betraying" the people.

Rather than an umbrella look, the Congress leader said it would be better to have at least half-a-dozen different perspectives of the area as the problems are not the same, even within the states.

The message of a 'new era' under Rahul Gandhi was writ large and the point driven home as the 84th plenary session of the All India Congress began on Saturday.

Although Naidu has now decided to divorce the NDA over his demand for special status for Andhra Pradesh, disquiet within the party had started last year itself. At the time, he asked his party to fulfil “mitra dharma”.

Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday publicly apologized to former Punjab cabinet minister Bikram Singh Majithia and submitted a copy of the written apology to the court where the latter had filed a defamation case against him.

"The Government was hell bent on passing bills without any discussion, and is neither interested in amicably settling the issues in the House in a democratic manner," Congress leader K C Venugopal said in a statement.

Rahul Gandhi’s Wednesday night meeting with Sharad Pawar assumes significance in the wake of jostling within non-NDA parties to assume leadership of the opposition front.

Congress candidates on both seats fared poorly. The victory has also come in as a major boost for the cadres of the SP and BSP who see in it the only hope in reviving their waning ground since the 2014 Lok Sabha.

Congress spokesperson and chief whip in Lok Sabha, Jyotiraditya Scindia, accused the government of "running away" from discussion on key issues concerning the public.

Forever foes Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj successfully taking on BJP's key plank of Hindutva in a state ruled by Yogi Adityanath — the Gorakhnath Mutt chief priest — has exposed chinks in BJP’s armour while boosting the opposition's efforts of puttin...

"The decision to drop me did come as a surprise but what was shocking was the manner and method of communicating it," Drabu, seen as the architect of the ruling PDP-BJP alliance in Jammu and Kashmir, said in a statement in Srinagar.

The Siddaramaiah government in Karnataka has agreed to accord separate religion and minority status to the Lingayats though the entire community is not united in their fight for a separate religion or for minority status.

Agrawal, the fair-weather neta of UP politics was in stiff competition with Jaya Bachchan for the lone Samajwadi Party RS seat up for grabs in the biennial elections.

Naresh Agarwal, who jumped ship from the SP to the BJP after being snubbed in favour of Bachchan for a Rajya Sabha ticket, termed the actor-politician a “Bollywood Dance Girl” while sitting alongside senior BJP leader and railway minister Piyush Goyal.