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Akhilesh Yadav extended full support to Rao and said that the country was looking for change after the previous regimes disappointed them.

Locals say that Kamal Nath rules the roost here rather than Congress. So projecting his son from this constituency at any point of time won’t be a hassle for the senior politician, a resident said.

Modi was responding to Rahul Gandhi's dare to allow him to speak for 15 minutes in Parliament on various issues, including corruption, and that the prime minister will not be able to sit for 15 minutes.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is contesting in a total of 28 seats. Complete list of AAP candidates contesting in Karnataka Assembly elections 2018.

Rajbhar, who holds the backward classes welfare portfolio, claimed that the BJP has "prepared its brahmastra. This will be released almost six months before the elections."

The former deputy Chief Minister of the state Nirmal Singh was replaced by former speaker of the state Assembly Kavinder Gupta, who is said to enjoy close proximity to senior RSS leaders, owing to a lot of complaints about Singh's style of functioning.

Pre-poll surveys on the elections to the 225-member Karnataka House, that includes one nominated member, have projected a hung assembly with the JD(S) emerging as kingmaker. Kumaraswamy said his target was 113 seats.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi set the stage for the 2019 showdown with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, questioning the PM’s silence on various issues.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi launched a scathing attack on the Narendra Modi government at his party’s Jan Akrosh Rally at Delhi’s Ramlila Maidan.

Five-time MP Lakshman Singh took to Twitter recently to mock his own party’s decision to appoint four working presidents to assist the newly-appointed MP president Kamal Nath, something which has been done for the first time in the state Congress.

The train will be flagged off from Chattrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminal on Friday by Nirupam who said over 1200 Congress workers are expected to travel by it.

"Rahul Gandhi ji will launch the campaign on April 23 at the Talkatora Stadium. Senior Congress leaders will join him," AICC Scheduled Caste Department Chairman Nitin Raut said in a statement.

The actor turned politician said he had given deep thought as to why he should get into politics when leaders he respected like Mahatma Gandhi and reformist leader Periyar had stayed away from it.

Senior Congress leader M Veerappa Moily, a former Union minister and an MP from the state, also hailed Chief Minister Siddaramaiah and said he had brought political, social and economic stability to the state.

Tejaswi Yadav, Rabri’s younger son, is the leader of opposition in the state Assembly. If she is given the status, it will be for the first time in the history of state legislature in Bihar that a mother-son duo will be Leader of Opposition in both houses...

The Calcutta High Court on Friday directed the SEC to issue a fresh notification to allow nominations for panchayat polls in West Bengal, quashing the commission's April 10 order cancelling extension of the deadline for filing nominations.