political disputes

Kolkata/Kharagpur, March 26 Senior BJP leader Dilip Ghosh on Thursday claimed that if his party comes to power in poll-bound West Bengal, the police would undergo a complete transformation and start conducting "Uttar Pradesh-style encounters" against criminals.Addressing an election campaign...

Chennai, March 26 – The Viduthalai Chiruthaigal Katchi (VCK) announced its candidates for three constituencies in Puducherry on Thursday, following a dispute with the Congress over seat allocation within the alliance led by the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK).This move followed the Congress’...

Mumbai, March 25 The opposition on Wednesday accused the BJP-led Mahayuti government of displaying "arrogance of the majority" and alleged it failed to respond to their questions and pushed key legislations without adequate discussion in the Maharashtra assembly.Addressing a press conference...

Mumbai, March 25 – In a fierce verbal attack, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) Maharashtra state president and MP Sunil Tatkare accused political rivals of attempting to interfere in party affairs, calling them "opportunistic scavengers" driven by a sinister desire to seize control.Tatkare was...

Mumbai, March 23 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray on Monday targeted the rival Shiv Sena over the "misconduct" of minister Shamburaj Desai during the election of Satara Zilla Parishad president last week and said the incident has shown the Eknath Shinde-led party its place in the...

The Chief Electoral Officer of West Bengal, Manoj Kumar Agarwal, has stated that the Election Commission (ECI) will publish the first supplementary voter list under the Systematic Voters' Registration (SIR) process today. This list will include the names of voters whose documents have been fully...

Bhubaneswar, March 22 The opposition BJD on Sunday said the party is ready to go to court to ensure that its six MLAs, who have been suspended for allegedly voting in favour of the BJP in the recent Rajya Sabha polls, are disqualified from the Odisha assembly.Addressing a press conference...

Alappuzha (Kerala), March 22 The verbal sparring between CPI(M) leaders and G Sudhakaran, who left the party to contest as an independent in Ambalapuzha, showed no signs of abating, with the latest exchange between Left leader V Vijayaraghavan and the veteran communist on Sunday.Speaking at a...

Chennai, March 22 AIADMK leader Kovai Sathyan on Sunday alleged that the DMK had coerced its alliance partners into prioritizing the interests of Chief Minister M K Stalin's family over public welfare."The DMK alliance parties are now complaining that they are being forced to work for Stalin...

Puducherry/Chennai, March 21 Negotiations between allies DMK and Congress regarding the April 9 Assembly elections in Puducherry have reached a standstill. The national party has expressed its dissatisfaction with the 9:21 formula offered by its southern ally, which is now proposing a revised...

Alappuzha (Kerala), March 21 Former CPI(M) leader and independent candidate from Ambalappuzha, G Sudhakaran, on Saturday denied claims that Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan had contacted him over the phone, saying he had not received any call from the CM.Sudhakaran told a television channel...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 20 – In his first detailed reaction after the Congress high command finalized the contentious seat selection process, Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Kerala Assembly, V.D. Satheesan, on Friday struck a combative yet confident note, asserting that the United...

Alappuzha (Kerala), March 20 CPI(M) rebel leader G Sudhakaran said on Friday that he would campaign against Agriculture Minister P Prasad in Cherthala, accusing him of making unwarranted remarks.Speaking to reporters here, Sudhakaran, who is contesting as an Independent candidate from...

New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, March 19 – With just three days left for filing nominations for the April 9 Assembly polls, the Congress on Thursday night unveiled its final list of candidates, covering 37 constituencies and bringing to a close four days of intense negotiations, debates, and...

Kolkata, March 19 Hours after attacking the Election Commission for overnight transfers of top bureaucrats and IPS officers in poll-bound West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee wrote to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar on Thursday, expressing "deep shock" over the functioning of...

Kochi/New Delhi, March 19 Senior Congress leader V D Satheesan said on Thursday that all issues regarding the selection of party candidates for the upcoming elections in the state have been resolved.Satheesan, speaking to reporters in New Delhi early in the morning, said that the full list of...

Hyderabad, March 18 Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy said on Wednesday that Leader of the Opposition K. Chandrasekhar Rao drew over Rs 1.06 crore in salaries and allowances without attending the Assembly.Speaking in the Assembly on Wednesday night, the Chief Minister revealed that the...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 18. Discontent has now spread to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Kerala unit following the announcement of its first list of candidates for the Assembly elections, mirroring similar unrest within both the Indian National Congress and the CPI(M).With Kerala set to...

Chandigarh, March 18 – Haryana Congress legislator Gokul Setia has announced a protest outside the state Congress office in Chandigarh on Wednesday following the cross-voting in the recent Rajya Sabha elections and the cancellation of votes cast by the state Congress MLAs.The protest is...

New Delhi/Bengaluru, March 18 – Union Minister for Food, Public Distribution and Consumer Affairs Pralhad Joshi criticised the Karnataka Congress government on Tuesday, stating that it had repeatedly displayed administrative failures, and that the latest incident, where the Assembly Speaker...