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Mevani also alleged that some men from upper caste communities are preventing these Dalit farmers from taking possession of the land allotted to them for farming by the state government 35 years ago.

The BJP president, a day before the Lok Sabha election results were announced, had already declared that his party will win 300 seats, claimed TMC's Saugata Roy.

Days after former PM and JD(S) supremo HD Deve Gowda had sent alarm bells ringing in the Congress after he spoke of a mid-term poll possibility, Siddaramaiah ruled out any such possibility.

Both state-run telecom firms Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) and Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited (MTNL) have been reporting losses since the time they were asked to pay auction-determined spectrum price in 2010 for all the circles where they operate...

The alleged Taj Heritage Corridor scam dogged her for years, and she has charged with possessing assets disproportionate to her income.

Soon after winning four Lok Sabha seats in Telangana, state BJP chief K Lakshamn and party MP GVL Narsimha Rao had declared that their focus would now be on strengthening the saffron camp in the twin Telugu states.

Senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar claims the objective of BJP is to have 'Gandhi-mukt Congress' so as to have a 'Congress-mukt Bharat'.

The party leadership divided the district into five organisational segments — Dum Dum, Barasat, Barrackpore, Basirhat and Bongaon — as per the five Lok Sabha seats, senior party leader said.

BJP General Secretary P Muralidhar Rao, who is in-charge of party affairs in Karnataka, said the coalition has lost the people's mandate, adding MLAs from various parties in the State do not want mid-term polls.

Gandhi had first expressed his decision to step down at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on May 25, two days after the Lok Sabha election results were declared.

The two leaders were involved in a war of words in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls, in which the BJP-led NDA returned to power with a massive majority.

The senior BSP leaders had convened a party meeting to prepare for the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. However, during discussion some workers engaged in a heated argument and accused top leaders of corruption.

Parliament LIVE: The Congress top brass, including Sonia Gandhi and party chief Rahul Gandhi, held a meeting here to decide the strategy on key matters such as Lok Sabha Speaker’s election and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s call to discuss the ‘one nation...

Parliament LIVE: Advising the opposition parties to not dwell too much on their numbers in the Lok Sabha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said views of the Opposition are important for a healthy democracy.

Maharashtra will be going to polls later this year. The visit is being seen as an attempt by the Shiv Sena to put pressure on ally BJP. But Sena has maintained that Thackeray's visit should not be seen through the electoral lens.

Madhya Pradesh CM Kamal Nath, Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot, Karnataka's H D Kumaraswamy and Puducherry’s V Narayansamy held a meeting with Manmohan Singh at the Congress headquarters in New Delhi.