Politics

VHP’s international working president Alok Kumar said President Draupadi Murmu and Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankar have been invited but they will not be coming on January 22 as there are protocols involved in their visit

His tongue-in-cheek remark, which evoked peals of laughter from the crowd, came in the presence of a host of senior BJP leaders such as Union ministers Giriraj Singh and Nityanand Rai, local MP Ravi Shankar Prasad and state unit president Samrat Choudhary

To maintain the sanctity of the programme and to comply with the security protocol, the Sangh has asked all its state units and other inspired organisations to visit the temple later

Denying permission for a rally, the Manipur government has allowed only a "limited number of participants" for the yatra, which is scheduled to be flagged off from Imphal on January 14

Praising Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Singh said a dream of 500 years is about to be realised

Rajasthan tribal development minister Babulal Kharadi also said PM Narendra Modi will provide subsidised LPG to everyone and urged people to vote for him once again in the Lok Sabha elections

With Koonar’s victory, the number of Congress MLAs in the 200-member Rajasthan assembly has increased to 70

Addressing a public meeting on the outskirts of Jammu, Abdullah asserted that the people of the union territory will be taken into confidence before finalising the names

Three ED officers were injured and several of their vehicles vandalised as hundreds of supporters of TMC leader Shajahan Sheikh attacked them on Friday

Last month, during the election campaign, voting was postponed due to the death of Congress candidate and then MLA Gurmeet Singh Kunar

K'taka BJP Meet on Monday: In a first for the parliamentary polls, the party will be fighting the election in an alliance with the H D Deve Gowda-led Janata Dal (Secular) (JDS)

Congress President Kharge has approved the proposal for the appointment of Parliament constituency-wise coordinators for the upcoming General elections with immediate effect, a statement said along with the list of coordinators in 539 constituencies

He said that circumstances, similar to what was seen in Bengal on Friday, were observed when former Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav was to be arrested in the fodder scam case

The Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra will spend 11 days in Uttar Pradesh and cover Varanasi, Amethi and Rae Bareli, which were once considered Congress bastions

The committee, of which Mukul Wasnik is the convener and has former chief ministers Ashok Gehlot and Bhupesh Baghel as well as Mohan Prakash and Salman Khurshid in it, held final talks and suggested the way forward to the party leadership

The Congress said the name of the yatra was changed as the brand 'Bharat Jodo Yatra' was embedded in the minds of the people and it was important to resonate with it