political rivalry

Siwan, April 6 RJD MLA Osama Sahab, son of the deceased gangster-turned-politician Mohd Shahabuddin, has been named in a case lodged in Siwan district, following a clash that erupted between two groups after a jeep collided with an auto-rickshaw, police said on Monday.According to SP Puran...

Haldia, March 30 – Declaring that the battle for Nandigram has become "easier" than in 2021, BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari on Monday filed his nomination papers from the constituency he has represented since 2016, and quickly shifted the focus to Bhabanipur, where he is set to challenge West...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 30 Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan accepted the challenge from Congress leader V D Satheesan for a public debate on Monday, further intensifying the political rivalry ahead of the April 9 Assembly elections.A day after Satheesan challenged him for a public...

Palakkad (Kerala), March 29 Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on both the UDF and LDF on Sunday, accusing them of "decades of corruption and political opportunism".Addressing a massive NDA election rally here, Modi said, "For decades, the LDF and the UDF have together...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 28 – Kerala's evolving electoral landscape has revealed a rare and striking trend in this Assembly election: direct contests between six incumbent legislators.As many as six incumbent MLAs are engaged in head-to-head battles across three constituencies. This means...

Thiruvalla (Kerala), March 23 – The Thiruvalla Assembly constituency in Kerala is witnessing a deeply personal and socially relevant election, where political rivalry is intertwined with legacy, faith, and family roots.At the heart of the contest are two experienced candidates: Mathew T...

Jammu, March 21 BJP leader Jahanzaib Sirwal alleged on Saturday that he was physically assaulted by a leader of the National Conference during Eid prayers in Kishtwar district of Jammu and Kashmir.He said the incident took place inside the Kishtwar Jamia Masjid while he was participating in...

Kolkata, March 18 Former TMC leader Humayun Kabir announced the first list of 15 candidates for his newly formed Am Janata Unnayan Party on Wednesday, stating that the party would contest 182 seats in the West Bengal assembly elections and field a Muslim candidate against Chief Minister Mamata...

Kolkata, March 17 The political rivalry in Nandigram that defined West Bengal’s 2021 assembly polls is set to return to the forefront, with Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and her former protégé, Suvendu Adhikari, competing in Bhabanipur, effectively making it the likely key battleground for the...

Thane, March 17 Manda Mhatre, the BJP MLA from Belapur in Navi Mumbai, was admitted to a hospital after she suffered a heart attack, sources said on Tuesday.Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde spoke to Mhatre via video call after learning about her condition and enquired about her health...

Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar, March 16 Former leader of the opposition in the Maharashtra legislative council, Ambdas Danve, has received multiple threatening calls in the last four days, leading to the registration of a non-cognisable (NC) offense against an unidentified person at a local police...

Kochi (Kerala), March 12 The Kerala High Court has upheld the life sentence of five BJP activists for the murder of a young CPI(M) worker by throwing a bomb at him in Kannur in 2006, terming it as another incident of a person losing his life due to the political rivalry between the two parties...

Mumbai, March 10 – The Privileges Committee of the Legislative Council submitted its report on NCP(SP) leader Suryakant More on Tuesday, recommending a 30-day imprisonment for his objectionable remarks against Maharashtra Legislative Council Chairman Ram Shinde during the recent local body...

Bengaluru, March 2 Senior BJP leader R Ashoka on Monday alleged that Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has allowed intelligence agencies to track the activities of MLAs who support Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar.Referring to a media report, he said that the CM uses intelligence agencies to spy...

Kolkata, March 1 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee paid tribute to her predecessor Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee on his birth anniversary on Sunday.Bhattacharjee, a prominent figure in the Communist Party of India (Marxist), served as the chief minister of the state for two consecutive...

Guwahati, February 26 – Congress MP Rakibul Hussain alleged on Thursday that Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has been making sustained verbal attacks against him since he defeated AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal by a huge margin in the Dhubri Lok Sabha constituency in the last parliamentary...

Kolkata, February 19 – Kaizar Ahmed, a prominent leader of the Trinamool Congress from Bhangar in the South 24 Parganas district of West Bengal, filed a police complaint against his own party's legislator from the neighboring Canning (Purba) Assembly constituency, Saokat Molla, on Thursday...

Mumbai, February 15 Shiv Sena MP Shrikant Shinde challenged BJP minister Ganesh Naik to contest against him in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, further intensifying the long-standing rivalry between the two political families.Shinde, the son of Deputy Chief Minister Eknath Shinde and a...