'In old India, there was no hatred, anger or lynching. New India is one where humans are enemies of each other'
Arvind Kejriwal said that 20-25% of AAP's votes transferred to SAD-BJP.
'We are in the presence of a truly great politician,' says Aakar Patel.
Parties including the Congress, Left, the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party have written to the Election Commission and the President opposing the advancing of the budget presentation to February 1 before the polls.
After 47 years in electoral politics, Union minister Sharad Pawar on Monday became a member of the Rajya Sabha for the first time.
Nayar wrote that the central government should initiate steps to address the pending inter-state issues in the North East, especially the boundary dispute of Assam with Nagaland, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya.
"Krishna was born in Uttar Pradesh but made Gujarat his karma bhoomi. I was born in Gujarat but Uttar Pradesh has adopted me," the PM said in Hardoi.
The results will be seen as a virtual referendum on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity after his demonetisation decision.
'Modi and the BJP don't want Delhi to function.' 'The LG is like a puppet of the BJP.'
Standing by his remarks, Sakshi Maharaj had told the Commission that the statement was not made in a public or an election meeting but at a saints' conclave and hence could not be considered violative of the model code.
Faced with poll debacle in four states, the Congress is expected to hold a 'chintan shivir'.
Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar wants the Modi government and BJP to reap the profit of the surgical strikes. But electoral history suggests a political party's ability to exploit military successes for poll gains has a mixed record.
The Samajwadi Party stormed to the power with 224 of the 403 assembly seats.
Any erosion in the TMC, may benefit the BJP, reports Ishita Ayan Dutt.
The names of a host of leaders, including some sitting MPs are doing the rounds in political circles.
The Congress, out of power in UP for 27 years is making a big pitch to bounce back, on a cocktail of caste politics and promises of agriculture debt waiver worth Rs 49,000 crore and power rate reduction for farmers hit by high input costs and diminishing returns., reports Amit Agnihotri.
Modi invoked Lord Shiva on Mahashivratri and said people, with their third eye, can see what is good for them and what is bad.
The turnout for these seats was 57.92 per cent in the last assembly polls in 2012.
Akhilesh was referring to the advertisement in which Bachchan is seen inviting tourists to visit the Wild Ass Sanctuary located in Little Rann of Kutch in the state.
Explaining his vision for the region, Modi cited the example of Kutch district of Gujarat.
Nearly 2.6 crore people in 73 constituencies of western Uttar Pradesh are voting on Saturday in the first of the seven phases of high-stake assembly elections
The Bharatiya Janata Party's carping ally said the police assertion about security threat to Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Maoists was just a 'conspiracy theory'.
'For the sake of the nation, and the preservation of its polity, it is high time the country's largest political party and the country's largest religious minority make peace between them,' says Saisuresh Sivaswamy.
'Genuine mistakes can and must be forgiven,' argues Vivek Gumaste.
The question is no longer whether he will win 2019; it's what he will do with the new status, says Shekhar Gupta.
The Congress vice president has eyes on the larger objective of his partnership with Akhilesh, which may provide the template against the BJP in 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
A 'beef party' and a bandh greeted Bharatiya Janata Party president Amit Shah who visited the state on Wednesday as part of his north-east tour seeking to strengthen party base and urging workers to make public the alleged corruption by ruling Congress party in Meghalaya.
It has the potential to burnish his image as a strong leader, bring down inflation and could turn out to be common man-friendly.
'Where they lose, you never ask why they failed there, like in Bihar and Punjab.' 'You are stuck on the UP victory, thinking they have the mandate to rule for all times to come.' 'The BJP has 282 MPs, but can I honestly say that the BJP is the party for everyone?'
Mayawati urged the Muslim voters to vote for the party, saying her party has given tickets to 99 candidates from the community.
Tiwari said on Amarinder's remark that when the latter was PCC president, he had himself demonstrated as to how the EVMs can be gerrymandered.
The issue of division of Uttar Pradesh had been lying dormant till now with major political parties including the BSP preferring silence so far.
The Congress party just lost power in Arunachal Pradesh once again!
Justice V Gopala Gowda's name has been considered positively by the Trinamul Congress as well as the Left.
A 7-hr debate was held over the contentious bill. Oppn amendments rejected.
Gujarat Chief Minister and BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi on Friday wrote letters to fellow chief ministers, urging them to oppose the Communal Violence Bill saying it was a blatant intrusion upon the powers of the state governments.
About 78 per cent respondents said they were also satisfied with the steps taken by their own state government, according to the findings of the survey.
'The situation in the country is very scary.' 'There is an increasing attack on the Constitutional democratic rights of our people.'
Probodh Panda and Atul Kumar Anjaan are among 39 candidates declared by the Communist Party of India for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as the party said that it would fight on 60 seats in 24 states.
The Congress and AAP said the logo looks like the party symbol of the Bharatiya Janata Party.
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