Politics

Rejected by the Uttar Pradesh CM Akhilesh Yadav - don-turned-politician and four-time MLA from Mau constituency - Mukhtar Ansari’s induction in Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) could be Mayawati's desperate move to secure minority vote bank.

Congress stood to benefit from the breakdown of ties between the Shiv Sena and the BJP for the February civic polls including in Mumbai, a party leader said on Thursday.

Sharing the stage with Congress in their first joint campaign, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav today hit out at BJP, saying the saffron party will have to do an 'ulta asana' after people will vote against it in large numbers in the upcoming Assembly...

Even by the tall list of campaign promises, this one should take the cake. Punjab’s ruling Shiromani Akali Dal has just promised that if voted back to power, the state government will buy vast tracts of land in US and Canada and resettle Punjabis who want...

BJP MP Vinay Katiyar on Wednesday stoked a controversy after saying that there were more beautiful women campaigners than Priyanka Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh.

The CPI-M on Tuesday termed as "peculiar" the Election Commission's decision to allow presentation of the Union budget on February 1, wondering how the proposals in it would exclude the five poll-bound states.

The joint Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance will rally around the theme “Apne UP Ke Ladke” – stressing home the point that both Akhilesh Yadav and Rahul Gandhi belong to the state as against the “outsiders” Narendra Modi-Amit Shah duo leading the BJP camp...

Accusing the Modi government of luring voters ahead of polls, Congress on Monday urged the Election Commission to take appropriate steps to ensure a free and fair election by fulfilling its constitutional duties so that no allurements are announced by it...

Dubbing Samajwadi Party government as a symbol of "jungle raj", UP BJP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya on Sunday said that only BJP can bring development in the state.

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Sunday extended her 'full support' to the Samajwadi Party and Congress alliance for the coming Uttar Pradesh polls.

Two days after joining the Congress, cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu filed his nomination from Amritsar East seat on Wednesday.

AS the BJP pads up for the all-crucial Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, there is a sense of déjà vu gripping its HQ at 11, Ashoka Road, New Delhi.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected Akali Dal leader and former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur's plea for suspension of her conviction in the 2000 murder case of her daughter Harpreet Kaur to enable her contest the upcoming Assembly elections in Punjab.

In a new twist to the Samajwadi Party drama, patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav told SP workers that he will contest against rebelling son and chief minister of Uttar Pradesh Akhilesh Yadav in the state assembly polls slated to begin next month.

Cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu has started his new innings on the front foot saying he is a born Congressman and that joining the party is ‘Ghar Wapsi’ for him.