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Modi also attacked the state government for its "inability" to spend Rs 4,000 crore lying with the District Mineral Foundations (DMF) and develop the mining areas.

Mayawati said Uttar Pradesh, which is India's largest state, will decide who will be the next Prime Minister.

Interestingly, Mayawati’s new political partner Akhilesh Yadav has been hesitant in openly addressing the issues related to Muslims. This was seen as part of a strategy to counter the claims of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that the SP was a party of M...

The survey comes amid efforts by the opposition parties to forge an alliance against the BJP ahead of the national elections.

The Congress chief will hold his first rally in Lucknow in the first week of February. One rally will also be held in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s parliamentary constituency Varanasi.

Without naming Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Sinha, using the honorific 'Sir', gave a piece of his mind on the social media platform.

According to BJP’s own calculations, an SP-BSP alliance may cost the party at least 25-30 seats in the state in the general elections.

Congress spokesperson Anand Sharma said the National Commission For Women (NCW) was adopting "double standard" by sending a notice to Gandhi, while remaining silent on Prime Minister Narendra Modi's "objectionable references" to Sonia Gandhi during state...

In a veiled warning to the Shiv Sena, Amit Shah had said on Sunday that if an alliance happened, the BJP will ensure victory for its allies, but if it did not, the party will thrash its former allies in the coming Lok Sabha polls.

Ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Punjabi Ekta Party was the second political outfit to have been floated in the state after rebel Akalis formed SAD (Taksali) last month.

Rejecting suggestions that the measure may fall foul of a Supreme Court judgment that put a cap of 50 per cent at the total quota, he said the ceiling was for caste-based reservations only.

On Monday, despite repeated opposition by the AGP, a Joint Parliamentary Committee report on the contentious bill was tabled in the Lok Sabha, following which the AGP walked out of the BJP-led Assam government.

Bhargav was in the race with four others — former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who eventually distanced himself; Chouhan’s aide Rajendra Shukla; former minister Narottam Mishra who is considered to be in the books of the party leadership and outgoing speaker...

There is also talk of deputy CM Nitin Patel resigning from the Vijay Rupani cabinet as he will be given a ticket to contest the Lok Sabha election from a seat of his bastion in north Gujarat.

The critically-acclaimed actor Raj on Saturday said he will be contesting the coming Lok Sabha elections from the Bengaluru Central constituency as an independent candidate.

Phoolka's resignation from the AAP had come amid speculation of a possible alliance between the Congress and the Arvind Kejriwal-led party for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.