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Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav also accused the government of removing Value Added Tax (VAT) from diesel and petrol before the elections to get votes, but reimposing the same after the elections.

In a strongly-worded statement on Twitter, Gandhi said the Congress will continue to stand with Chidambaram even as a CBI team paid a third visit to his house in Delhi’s Jor Bagh area.

Refusing to grant him anticipatory bail, the Delhi High Court said Chidambaram appears to be the 'kingpin' in the INX media case and needs to be interrogated in custody for the investigation to be effective.

Cabinet berths are being kept empty for the MLAs who had brought down the previous JDS-Congress government and right now stand disqualified. The BJP realises that it could not have come to power in the first place without ‘help’ from those rebels.

Senior BJP MLA from Chitradurga, GH Thippareddy, was the first to fire a shot. He said his seniority has been overlooked and said all 'likeminded' MLAs would soon meet in Bengaluru to put pressure on Yediyurappa

Congress leaders, including Siddaramaiah, M Mallikarjuna Kharge and home minister in the alliance government MB Patil, had sought a probe while another key party leader and former minister DK Shivakumar rejected the snooping charges and appeared to side w...

DMK MP T R Baalu said the Congress, CPI(M), CPI, TMC and the India Union Muslim League (IUML) among others have confirmed their participation in the protest that will be held at the Jantar Mantar.

Expressing concern over the economic slowdown, Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said the situation is like that of a 'financial emergency'.

The Congress leader asked if it was a crime to speak to the media after the state unit of the Congress was prevented from addressing a press conference as police detained its chief spokesperson Ravinder Sharma and placed its Jammu and Kashmir president Gh...

In a memorandum to Union minister Arjun Munda, Ladakh MP Jamyang Tsering Namgyal said Ladakh is a predominantly tribal area with tribals making up to 98 percent of its population.

Chowdhury said Sonia Gandhi was reluctant to helm the party once again, but yielded to the request of senior Congress functionaries when the organisation was facing a 'crisis' after Rahul Gandhi's resignation.

BJP working president JP Nadda who is on his maiden visit to Telangana after becoming taking charge, would attend a mega convention) on Sunday when leaders from the TDP and other parties would join the saffron camp, said party leader K Laxman.

Congress spokesperson Abhishek Singhvi said it was a failure on the part of the government's foreign policy to allow internationalisation of the Kashmir issue in the UN.

Other than Shivakumar no other senior Congress leader has so far rejected the allegation. He also said Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa was free to order any probe into the matter.

Nautiyal, in his speech, warned of dire consequences for those 'creating obstacles' in reconstructing a demolished temple and reinstalling a statue of Dalit icon Sant Ravidas in Delhi.

The governor's reaction came after Gandhi in a tweet on Wednesday repeated his demand to visit Jammu and Kashmir and asked Malik when he could come.