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As a senior Karnataka Congress leader puts it, the party is fighting not just a state Assembly election. This is the semi-finals for the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The Karnataka poll campaign will be Rahul Gandhi's first as the Congress president. It will...

Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Rahul said, had first announced that she would inform the nation about the cost of purchasing Rafale aircraft but was now saying she could not do so as it was a state secret.

Claiming that Raje had fallen into the bureaucracy "trap" (IAS, IPS, RAS, RPS), he said the chief minister was leading the party on to a path that headed nowhere but towards defeat.

Participating in the debate on the Motion of Thanks for the President's address, Leader of Oppositon Ghulam Nabi Azad alleged that opposition party leaders were being treated as "potential terrorists" and their phones were being tapped.

Nana Patole, who joined the Congress after quitting the BJP, did not name the MLAs during his press conference.

Congress MP KVP Ramachandra Rao said the use of those words were "not any humiliation for me but... certainly a great humiliation for the people of my state (Andhra Pradesh), who were agitating for fulfilment of their legitimate rights".

Speaking to CNN-News18, CPI(M) leader Sitaram Yechury on Thursday said, the Narendra Modi-led NDA government is only providing slogans of relief to the people while the Union Budget 2018 will benefit corporates and international finance.

While some leaders want to portray Pilot as the chief architect of the Congress campaign, particularly Ajmer which Pilot represented in the Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014, other sections of the party are not so keen on placing the crown on Pilot’s young head...

The battle for Ajmer is particularly a prestige battle for Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (RPCC) chief Sachin Pilot, who represented Ajmer in the Lok Sabha from 2009 to 2014.

Crucial issues the instant triple talaq bill, the Supreme Court judges row and the recent communal clashes in Uttar Pradesh are likely to be discussed.

"Being senior leaders, the party does not want to take any disciplinary action against them, but it's bearing on them to resign from the party and do what they want to do," Telangana BJP spokesperson Krishna Saagar Rao said.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Sarkar donates his entire salary to the CPI(M) and gets Rs 5,000 from the party as subsistence allowances.

BJP spokesperson Ashwathnarayan said there was no need for BJP to enter into an understanding with anybody, including AIMIM, as it was confident of getting an absolute majority in the coming assembly polls and form the government on its own.

The legend of Padmaavati simply doesn’t suit the zeitgeist.

Reacting sharply to Gandhi's tweet, BJP spokesman GVL Narsimha Rao said this inequality is the disastrous consequence of your family's patented Nehru Congress's "Poverty Perpetuation" Model of Governance by which only Congressis became rich.

The plea for an urgent hearing of the appeal was mentioned before a bench of Justices S Ravindra Bhat and AK Chawla, which listed it for Wednesday.