Politics

The BJP had denied ticket to Utpal during the Assembly bypoll for the seat represented by his father for over two decades.

The Karnataka Chief Minister recalled that in 2009-10, 18 MLAs, including some ministers, had 'opposed' the then chief minister BS Yeddyurappa of the BJP but he had not resigned.

The prohibitory orders came into effect on Thursday when Chief Minister H D Kumaraswamy is scheduled to chair a cabinet meeting in the backdrop of 16 MLAs resigning.

Gehlot and Pilot were in the race for the post after the party won the assembly elections in December last year. After days of intense deliberations in Delhi, the Congress named Gehlot as the chief minister and Pilot as his deputy.

The incident comes as a protest against recent comments made Shiv Sena minister Tanaji Sawant where he said that crabs were responsible for the collapse of the Ratnagiri Dam which has killed 20 people so far.

In 2015, a special court discharged Shah in the Sohrabuddin Sheikh and Tulsiram Prajapati encounter cases, holding no case existed against him and that he had been implicated for political reasons

Villagers in the Ketugram area alleged these local TMC leaders took illegal commission from 45 beneficiaries of the government's housing scheme at Shibloon village under Nabagram panchayat.

Shashi Tharoor also said the budget was characterised by 'mediocre set of announcements, distinctive misses and defining silences on matter of substance'.

Jaishankar, who was the foreign secretary during Modi government's first term in office, got elected to the Upper House from Gujarat last week in by-elections for two vacancies.

The inaccessibility of HD Kumaraswamy, a faction-ridden state Congress that is looking more vulnerable after the resignation of Rahul Gandhi and personal interests of MLAs are said to be the main reasons behind the current crisis.

After several Congress and JD(S) leaders resigned in Karnataka, senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday said the BJP had poached the party's MLAs.

After submitting the resignations, 10 MLAs flew by a chartered flight and arrived at a hotel in Mumbai late Saturday night.

At a late-evening meeting in the national capital attended by mostly seniors and a handful of juniors, the worry was clear. Many of the seniors were beginning to see the writing on the wall.

Launching the party's membership drive in Telangana, he said that in the electoral history of the country, many parties have broken and got divided with just one failure.

In a Facebook post a day after the Budget presentation, Arun Jaitley said a fundamental question has always been asked as to what would one choose between good economics and clever politics.

Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate Samar Vishal deferred the matter after an adjournment was sought by Swamy, who said that he had to attend Parliament.