Politics

While the ruling LDF has fielded NCP leader Mani C Kappen as its candidate in the constituency, Jose Tom Pulikkunnel of Kerala Congress is the candidate of Congress-led UDF.

On September 19, Babul Supriyo was shown black flags and heckled by a section of students at JU where he had gone to address a seminar organised by the ABVP.

This is not the first time at Thackeray's party has taken a dig at ally BJP in its editorial. It had in August criticised the Modi regime for the drift in the economy.

The decision was taken on the petition of Aam Aadmi Party legislator Saurabh Bharadwaj who said that the Chandni Chowk MLA recently joined the Congress.

Citing Amit Shah's assertion that he has never asked for imposition of Hindi anywhere in the country, MK Stalin said the protest slated for September 20 has been postponed.

Leaders of both the BJP and the TMC say the other issues of concern are central funds, name change of the state and the condition of Public Sector Banks.

This change of schedule has disturbed the relief and rehabilitation works underway in the areas submerged under the dam water in four districts of MP, Bala Bachchan said.

Earlier, the BSP Chief had slammed the move as 'unconstitutional'. 'No government can include or remove any caste from the Scheduled Caste list,' she said.

Sena leader Sanjay Raut also observed that democracy will fall apart if anyone tries to simplify the art of politics by breaking parliamentary etiquettes, and added absence of opposition makes politics arbitrary and unilateral.

Azad's plea is scheduled to be taken up by a bench of Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi and Justices SA Bobde and S Abdul Nazeer on Monday.

Udayanraje Bhosale formally joined the BJP at the residence of Amit Shah in the presence of Working President JP Nadda, Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and several other senior leaders.

Amarinder Singh (Punjab), Ashok Gehlot (Rajasthan), Kamal Nath (Madhya Pradesh), Bhupesh Baghel (Chhattisgarh) and V Narayanasamy (Puducherry) met Sonia Gandhi at her residence.

Modi, on Thursday, had said development and the fight against corruption and terrorism during the first 100 days of the NDA 2.0 government was just a "trailer" of a fast-paced film.

Several senior leaders from the opposition NCP and Congress have recently joined the ruling BJP and Shiv Sena in the state, where the Assembly polls are due next month

A large contingent of police, including several DSPs, tied the main entrance gate of Naidu's riverfront residence with ropes on and also shut other gates on Wednesday to prevent him from coming out.

Democracy is at peril today. Mandate is being misused and abused in most dangerous fashion, Sonia Gandhi said.