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New Delhi, April 4 The escalating dispute between the Aam Aadmi Party and its Rajya Sabha MP, Raghav Chadha, intensified on Saturday, with the sidelined leader dismissing AAP's allegations against him as "lies" and asserting that he went to Parliament to raise people's issues and not to create...

New Delhi, April 4 Rajya Sabha member Kapil Sibal on Saturday cited examples of five voters who were allegedly registered in both West Bengal and Bihar to take aim at the BJP, saying the party is only 'self-reliant' in elections when the Election Commission is supporting it.Sibal's allegations...

Kannur (Kerala), April 4 KPCC chief Sunny Joseph alleged on Saturday that the ballot boxes being used in the northern Kerala district for collecting votes from local voters have wide openings through which ballots can be easily removed, and he has sought the intervention of the CEC and CEO to...

Mumbai, April 4 The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on Saturday dismissed speculation of a power struggle and rift within the party, saying too much was being read into the communications between the top party leaders and the Election Commission of India (ECI), which took place in the wake of...

Kannur (Kerala), April 4 KPCC chief Sunny Joseph said on Saturday that the Congress has received around Rs 5.38 crore in its account set up for rehabilitation in Wayanad and has used the funds to purchase land for constructing homes for landslide victims.Joseph said that, in addition to the...

Mumbai, April 4 Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi leader Prakash Ambedkar on Saturday claimed that the names of as many as 2.9 crore voters could be deleted in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Maharashtra's electoral rolls.He further claimed that such a large-scale deletion of names could directly...

Vellore, April 3 AIADMK General Secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Friday lashed out at DMK chief M K Stalin, saying the chief minister was portraying his party as "anti-Muslim" simply because an alliance was formed with the BJP.Addressing an election rally in Ambur near here, the AIADMK...

Dakshin Dinajpur (West Bengal), April 3 – Union Minister of State Sukanta Majumdar, on Friday, expressed his concerns about the arrest of AIMIM leader Mofakkarul Islam by the West Bengal Police's Criminal Investigation Department (CID) for allegedly being the mastermind behind the harassment of...

Kamalpur/Mangaldai/Guwahati, April 3 BJP leader Nitin Nabin on Friday alleged that the Congress had worked for "immigrants" and urged voters to remember its tenure while casting their votes in the Assam Assembly elections.Addressing rallies in support of party candidates in Kamalpur, Mangaldai...

New Delhi, April 3 CPI Rajya Sabha MP P Sandosh Kumar wrote to Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Friday, alleging a "cash-for-ticket" scandal involving senior Congress functionaries and seeking transparency over funds collected by the party for landslide relief in Kerala.In...

Gandhinagar, April 3 – A political confrontation escalated in Gujarat on Friday after the state unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rejected allegations made by Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal in a letter to Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel. The BJP accused Kejriwal of...

Jaipur, April 3 – Tension flared at the University of Rajasthan on Friday as NSUI workers clashed with police during protests against a seminar scheduled to be held on campus, which they alleged was linked to the promotion of RSS ideology.The situation escalated when protesters attempted to...

Chandigarh, April 3 BJP Punjab working president Ashwani Sharma on Friday alleged that the inauguration plaques for 109 new Aam Aadmi Clinics and two irrigation projects in Fatehgarh Sahib show that the governance of Punjab is being controlled by Delhi-based leaders of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)...

Jaipur, April 3 Senior Congress leader Ashok Gehlot on Friday alleged that democracy was eroding in the country under the BJP rule, which he termed "very dangerous".Speaking to reporters, the former Rajasthan chief minister also said that if democracy did not survive, it would have serious...

Shimla, April 3 The Himachal Pradesh BJP on Friday demanded an investigation by a sitting high court judge into the alleged irregularities in the Chester Hills project, a high-end housing scheme in Solan, and termed the acting chief secretary holding a press conference to “defend” himself as...

Barpeta (Assam), April 3 Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Friday said that only the NDA, led by the BJP, can free Assam of infiltrators and prevent demographic changes.Addressing a rally in Barpeta in support of AGP candidate Dipak Kumar Das, Adityanath alleged that the Congress...

New Delhi, March 3 – The rift within the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) came to the surface on Friday, with Raghav Chadha, the party's "sacked" Deputy Leader in the Rajya Sabha, and other party leaders, including Delhi unit President Saurabh Bharadwaj, engaging in a heated exchange of words.Shortly...

Harirampur (WB), April 3 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday blamed the AIMIM and ISF for the siege of judicial officers in Malda district and accused the Congress and the BJP of instigation.Stating that the mastermind behind Wednesday's several-hour siege of judicial officers...

Ranchi/Hazaribag, April 2 The ruling JMM in Jharkhand held a rally in Ranchi and Hazaribag on Thursday over the murder of a 12-year-old girl, while the Congress alleged that one of those arrested in the case was linked to the BJP.However, the BJP denied the allegation, calling it an attempt by...

Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu), April 2 Tamil Nadu Chief Minister and DMK President MK Stalin on Thursday alleged that it was the AIADMK that copied his party's flagship schemes in its manifesto and claimed that the more the visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, the...