Nagpur Guardian Minister Chandrashekhar Bawankule said social media was used to vitiate the atmosphere, and appealed to the opposition not to politicise the matter.
The BJP, which contested more seats this time than in 2019 but is likely to fall short of the magic figure of 272, garnered 36.91 per cent of the total votes polled, a drop of around 0.39 percentage points as of 6.15 pm.
The BJP, which has allied with a few smaller parties, has sought to upend the state's conventional politics, which has so far been indifferent to Hindutva politics, by taking the ruling DMK head-on for its alleged insult of Sanatan Dharma besides involvement in corruption.
The Congress on Monday released a list of 30-star campaigners for the first phase of the Uttar Pradesh assembly elections.
The inauguration new parliament building will take place in two phases.
What are the political equations, the challenges, and the threats?
Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra on Thursday said all political parties in Uttar Pradesh want the Assembly elections to be held according to schedule while ensuring Covid protocol.
'By naming Tejashwi as the next CM candidate, he has put us in a dilemma.' 'Who will lead us in 2025?' 'What will happen to the party after 2025?'
The government engineered a victory of sorts when it succeeded in neutralising the Samajwadi party, the Bahujan Samajwadi Party, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam and the Trinamool Congress in stacking up the numbers on the FDI issue, says Renu Mittal.
Giving a free run to Samajwadi Party nominee Dimple Yadav, wife of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, the Bahujan Samajwadi Party on Wednesday announced that it will not contest the by-elections to Kannauj parliamentary constituency
Outgoing Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and Bahujan Samajwadi Party president Mayawati on Tuesday filed her nomination for the Rajya Sabha.
Defections have become the order of the day in Uttar Pradesh. And on Saturday suspended ruling Bahujan Samaj Party member of Legislative Assembly Guddu Pandit switched loyalties to the Samajwadi Party.
'Despite our being a part of a welfare state, benefits are not trickling down to the intended beneficiaries at the desired levels. People's aspirations about leading a dignified life are often met with challenges. One of them, primarily, being poverty'
The Bahujan Samajwadi Party expelled jailed Member of Legislative Assembly Mukhtar Ansari, who is facing 30 criminal cases including murder and kidnapping, and his brother former Member of Parliament Afzal Ansari from the party for their alleged continued involvement in criminal activities on Friday.
The body of Rajesh Gautam, bearing bullet wounds, was found dumped near the railway tracks
The controversial Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill will be tabled in Parliament on Wednesday.
"It is not where the party president says something and the next day the exact opposite of what he had said happens. This gives out a bad image of party because it affects political credibility of the party," Singh told PTI in an interview.
As the analysts were exploring common links in the rise of Barack Obama as the United States President and the Mayawati phenomenon back home, the Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief was busy finalising her caste-based plans for the coming Assembly elections.The BSP, which had romped home in Uttar Pradesh last year, is planning to contest Assembly elections in all the constituencies in the five states -- Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Jammu and Kashmir.
According to BJP insiders, every Union minister has been given 3-4 seats to mentor and has been told to work hard on these constituencies in the next 20 months to ensure the party's victory.
This is the first time parliamentarians are caught on camera accepting bribes to raise questions.
The Communist Party of India-Marxist also congratulated Mayawati and said it was now clear that the electoral college was in favour of a secular candidate in the upcoming presidential election.
The BSP is depending on votes from Dalits and minorities to make inroads into Congress and JD-S vote banks. The party is confident of coming in third place, saying that would be a satisfactory result for its first foray into Karnataka politics.
Global tenders will be floated to build the road, while the government will take care of the administrative part
The Lok Sabha paid tributes to Kanshi Ram and Rajya Sabha paid tributes to Lalit Suri.
Mayawati was questioned by sleuths of the Anti-Corruption unit of the agency at her official residence in New Delhi, CBI sources said.
Mulayam Singh has conspired with his 'right hand man' Atiq Ahmed, member of Parliament, to eliminate Pal, the BSP leader alleged. \n
Earlier, a Uttar Pradesh court refused to recognise 40 rebel Bahujan Samajwadi Party legislators, plunging the state into a political crisis.
Acting on Speaker Manohar Joshi's directive, Parliamentary Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj said she had spoken to Deputy Prime Minister Lal Kishenchand Advani and he had sought a day's time to collect relevant information from the state government.
The former UP chief minister said at this juncture that she and the entire party were in deep sorrow and could not think of anything else.
In a discussion in Lok Sabha on the COVID pandemic, members called for ban on international flights in view of the outbreak of the Omicron strain and demanded that the government 'accept responsibility' for deaths of lakhs of people during the outbreak.
According to Election Commission (EC) figures, the AAP bagged 53.6 per cent votes in the Delhi Assembly polls, the results of which were declared on Tuesday. It had bagged 54.34 per cent votes in 2015.
An FIR under Sections 153A, 504 and 509 of the Indian Penal Code and Section 310 under the SC/ST act was lodged against Singh.
Psephologist Sandeep Shastri explains to Vicky Nanjappa/Rediff.com how Narendra Modi scripted the BJP's triumph.
The outgoing Lok Sabha had 23 Muslim MPs, the most being from Congress and TMC. The highest number of Muslim MPs were in 1980 when as many as 49 MPs from the community which constitute nearly fifth of Indian population present in the Lok Sabha.
The 21-year-old son of Rakhi Bhadra, the maid who was allegedly tortured to death by Bahujan Samajwadi Party Member of Parliament Dhananjay Singh's wife Jagriti, has gone missing.
The chief judicial magistrate in Hajipur has ordered the police to lodge a case against Shah and Singh.
The run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election is witnessing a parallel mobilisation apart from the campaigning for votes -- a movement to make the political parties realise the power of women who constitute 49 per cent of the population in the country. Sadly, it seems the 'Power of 49' movement has made no difference to the political parties in Rajasthan -- a state run by a woman chief minister and woman governor -- as far as giving tickets to women candidates is concerned.
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