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Opposition parties in the state have already dubbed the visit as a sign that the EK Palaniswami government is being remote-controlled by the BJP.

Eshwarappa, who is a protege of Yeddyurappa, is also from Shimoga district like his one-time mentor Yeddyurappa. He openly admits that Yeddyurappa first made him MLA from Shimoga city in 1989 and later BJP Karnataka chief in the early 1990s.

Siddiqui was expelled on May 10 last year for allegedly carrying out anti-party activities in the wake of its debacle in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.

The announcement, which has taken other political parties in the state by surprise, has left them with no other option but to support the move. Even the ruling TDP, under pressure, has agreed to it but states that it was their last option.

Pawar's remarks are viewed as a bid to reach out to the estranged ally Congress. The NCP was part of the Congress-led Democratic Front government in Maharashtra that had won three successive terms before it was dislodged by the BJP in 2014.

Marking his political debut, Kamal Haasan said that he had worked in films for money for so many years, but now wants to work for people for the rest of his life.

Vijay Sai Reddy had allegedly threatened vindictive action against IAS officer Satish Chandra, special chief secretary to Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu, once YSRCP came to power in the state.

On Tuesday, the Chief Secretary had alleged that he was beaten up by Khan and his colleague in front of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at the latter's residence on Monday midnight, where he was called for a meeting.

State BJP President Dilip Ghosh uploaded these photographs in Twitter and claimed those were of Bengal Global Business Summit organised in Mumbai in July last year.

The point of contention seems to be that the party chose to field a candidate from Varanasi rather than someone from the district. The seat was vacated by Keshav Prasad Maurya, who won it by a margin of over 3 lakh votes and then went on to become the sta...

The NPF MLAs has four lawmakers in the 60-member Assembly, where the BJP has only 21 and dependent on other allies for its majority. An NPF lawmaker is a cabinet minister.

Madhya Pradesh, where the BJP has been in power since 2003, goes to the polls by the year-end and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan is under the opposition fire since the last year's widespread protests by farmers.

Panneerselvam, who revolted against Sasikala and her family last year after allegedly being forced to make way for her elevation to the chief minister’s post, charged that her family members tried to work for his defeat in the 2016 polls.

Nirmala Sitharraman said Nirav Modi may have been able to run away from the country, but the government is taking action against him. "We are not conspiring to help scamsters flee the country, the BJP government is catching them instead," she told reporte...

The former Nagaland Chief Minister also accused the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) of partnering with the BJP to set its root into their land to persecute the Naga people.

While matching the electoral rolls with the actual voters in both the poll bound constituencies, large numbers of voters were found to be enrolled in two to three pooling booths, Madhya Pradesh Congress Committee president Arun Yadav said.