The Economic Offences Wing of the Uttar Pradesh police will investigate the case against Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, who has been accused in a Rs 500-crore scam.
Seen by political watchers as the favourite to retain power for a third straight term, the Bharatiya Janata Party has set itself an ambitious target of winning 370 Lok Sabha seats, a goal aimed as much at projecting its strength as at diminishing the opposition in popular imagination.
With this, the ruling BJP has so far declared candidates for 136 seats. Earlier, the BJP had announced 79 candidates, including two lists of 39 each, and another list of one nominee.
According to a senior Congress leader, the constituents of the opposition alliance intend to move forward with the theme "Main Nahin, Hum (We, Not Me)" at the meeting.
Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh, who was once hounded out of 10 Janpath soon after the United Progressive Alliance government took over four years ago, triumphantly announced on Tuesday that the National Security Advisor M K Narayanan would call on him at his residence on July 2 to explain the government's position on the Indo-US civil nuclear deal.
Giving this information, ruling Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh told reporters that Rajiv Sabharwal, SSP Kumbh Mela, will replace Rathore.
Bharatiya Janata Party leader Maneka Gandhi on Saturday indicated that her son Varun Gandhi's writings that were sometimes critical of the government may have cost him the party's Lok Sabha ticket from Pilibhit but asserted that he would do very well even without it.
The Congress is planning to call a meeting of Opposition parties in May. It is possible to keep all possibilities open in case Karnataka yields a hung House, leading to a recalibrated Opposition.
The Reliance Industries vice-chairman would be supported by Samajwadi Party.
If the Congress reached 90, it would have a pretty good chance of holding the BJP below the 272 mark. A hundred seats will rock national politics, argues Shekhar Gupta.
She released the party's manifesto "Unnati Vidhan", which she termed as "Jan Ghoshna Patra'.
In a press conference held in Lucknow on Thursday, social activist and lawyer Shiv Kant Tripathi, who has accused Amar Singh of being involved with a Rs 500 crore fraud, questioned the source of the Samajwadi Party general secretary's massive wealth."Amar Singh was a man worth just about Rs 17 crores in 2002 2003. All I wish to ask is, how could he amass wealth to the tune of Rs 500 crores in the seven-year period since then. Where did he get his crores from," Tripathi said
The Samajwadi party general secretary Amar Singh along with two actresses-MPs Jaya Prada and Jaya Bachchan came to the office of the Telugu mega star turned politician Chiranjeevi in Hyderabad on Sunday evening, spent close to one hour and went back leaving a lot of questions unanswered.
Singh claims at least 60 tapes were in the possesion of Sonia Gandhi.
Maurya had the right to give his own independent explanation different from explanations of many scholars but he cannot use such language which may disturb the religious feelings of a community, the Lucknow bench of the Allahabad high court said.
Modi said the state election results "give a glimpse" of the outcome of the general elections of 2024.
What did Amar Singh and Mulayam Singh Yadav discuss at breakfast?
'The tally of Muslim MLAs has increased. They know they can make themselves count in the electoral system.'
The court imposed restraining orders on the transfers sought asking the the holders to file their reply within two weeks.
The case against superstar Amitabh Bachchan by the Uttar Pradesh government, accusing him of evading stamp duty of just Rs 695, is ridiculous and an attempt to defame Indian art and culture, Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh said on Tuesday. "Amitabh is a personality who can pay Rs 6 lakh. Rs 600 is nothing for him. Registration of such a case against megastar like him is ridiculous and an attempt to defame Indian art," he said.
Many exit polls have kept the incumbent Bharatiya Janata party ahead of the Congress in what was a straight contest between two main parties. Assembly polls were held in the state in a single phase on November 17.
The BJP stormed back to power in the crucial state of Uttar Pradesh, trouncing its main rival SP, with Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath asserting that people have buried the politics of caste and religion.
The Bihar Police's Economic Offences Unit, which is probing the alleged National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (Undergraduate) (NEET-UG) paper leak case, on Saturday claimed to have obtained reference question papers of the test conducted by National Testing Agency (NTA) and planned to compare these with documents recovered from a flat in Patna during a search operation last month.
The Congress is a dismal third in 17 of the 19 constituencies where the party's general secretary (east) campaigned in Uttar Pradesh.
'We have got together to save the democracy, Constitution and brotherhood. The country's constitutional institutions are being misused and the country's wealth is being sold out'
Asked how many seats INDIA bloc will get, Gandhi said, "Have you heard Sidhu Moose Wala's song '295'? So 295 (seats)."
'Stardom comes from talent, hard work and an acknowledgement from the people,' Amitabh Bachchan tells Mid-day.
Along with the veteran actor, his wife Jaya, son Abhishek and friend Amar Singh were seen welcoming the guests, which included Jeetendra, Ranjit, Prem Chopra, Om Puri, Amrish Puri, Sanjay Khan, Rakesh Mehra and Prakash Mehra, among others.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday cruised to a two-thirds majority in Madhya Pradesh assembly, winning as many as 163 of the 230 seats in the House, leaving the Congress a distant second at 66.
The former Congress president also tagged a post by Tesla CEO Elon Musk in which he talked about eliminating EVMs.
More than 48 lakh candidates appeared in the examination conducted on February 17 and 18 across the state.
'The BJP is racing against its opponents by putting a chain on their legs.'
In an interview, he recalled how Hashim Ansari, one of the original litigants in the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute, took him to the mosque on his bicycle.
Samajwadi Party General Secretary Amar Singh told mediapersons on Tuesday that he would publicly humiliate King Khan for his crude joke against him at a recent awards function.
