The Congress leadership has also asked its leaders not to make any public statements on sensitive issues.
"It is our victory as the apex court has not ordered revival of the dissolved assembly," said Lalu.
External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid's daylong "goodwill" visit to Nepal on July 9 will give him an opportunity to meet top functionaries of its interim election government as well as the leaders of the main political parties.
The Supreme Court is hearing writ petitions challenging the dissolution of the Bihar assembly.
'The more you challenge her, the more powerful she gets'
Demanding mid-term polls, Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantric) on Monday accused its pre-poll ally Congress of desiring to govern the state by prolonging the President's rule.
The Aam Aadmi Party will not contest the upcoming polls in four states except Delhi, announced party chief Arvind Kejriwal.
The Congress, which is the single-largest party with 16 MLAs, has already staked claim to form the government in the coastal state.
The apex court said that although the legislators are deemed to be public servants, their status is unique and certainly not one of a full-time salaried employee of any person, government, firm, corporation or concern as such.
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Three months after quitting as Delhi chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday apologised to the people of Delhi and the country for 'resigning midway' and said the party will gear up for elections.
Omar Abdullah also urged upon the governor to take some confidence building measures and also ensure that there was zero-tolerance towards the human rights violations.
Immediately after his arrival, he drove to his house in a private car driven by his son.\n\n
Terming scrapping of the Article 370 as a "black day in the history of India, Chidambaram said: "Momentarily you may think you have scored a victory... drum beats on streets may force you to think that you have corrected a so-called injustice but history will prove you.... Future generations will realise what a grave mistake this House is making today."
Senior congress leader Gulab Singh Thakur was nominated as the BJPs candidate for the upcoming polls in Himachal Pradesh.
'Today, we being the majority pass a law and if the Opposition parties do not like it, they throw files at the Chair, and beat up women marshals.'
The Andhra Pradesh assembly was dissolved in November last year.
On the charge that his recommendation to dissolve the Bihar assembly was aimed at favouring a particular political party, he declined to comment.
'Lalu doesn't mind the BJP but is not ready for a Muslim CM. He wants only Rabri Devi,' says Ram Vilas Paswan.
The list of 31 candidates for the 60-member House includes names of 27 members of the dissolved assembly.
The Bharatiya Janata Party's Jharkhand unit on Tuesday challenged in the Supreme Court the continuance of President's rule in the state and keeping the assembly under suspended animation.
After resorting to quirky measures like debarring party spokespersons from news channel debates, the opposition parties are now overhauling their organisational set-ups and purging respective executives, committees and wings to weed out non-performers and deadwood. Virendra Singh Rawat reports.
With his exit, the TMC will lose a crucial, politically influential vote catcher in the Jungalmahal region and areas in minority-dominated Murshidabad, and the BJP will get a face it badly needs, especially in rural Bengal, reports Aditi Phadnis.
JD-U accuses BJP of trying to engineer split within party.
She said Mahatma Gandhi had talked about disbanding the party after Independence.
'If I am elected president, one of my highest priorities will be to support the prime minister, the National assembly and the senate to amend the constitution to bring back into balance the powers of the presidency and thereby reduce its ability to bring down democratic governance,' Zardari said in an Op-Ed piece in The Washington Post.
KCR, as Rao is popularly known, was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor E S L Narasimhan at a simple ceremony on the lawns of Raj Bhavan.
Most exit polls have forecast gains for Congress in at least four states including a clear majority in Rajasthan.
Rejecting the outgoing government's recommendation for the dissolution of the Delhi Assembly, Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung on Saturday reportedly suggested the imposition of President's rule by keeping the legislature under suspended animation.
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H D Deve Gowda may have created an impact of sorts when he made the speech in Parliament, which was debating whether to dissolve the Karnataka Legislative Assembly or not.
The cabinet is expected to finalise the date for a special legislative session later this month. Sources in the Janata Dal Secular said that the session will be held after October 15 to dissolve the Assembly and declare elections in the state.
