Politics

Fadnavis said the Nationalist Congress Party is 'half- empty' and will be emptied fully after the poll results are out on October 24.

The Union Home Minister also once again invoked the National Register of Citizens (NRC) exercise and said every illegal migrant in the country will be sent home before the next parliamentary elections.

Addressing a poll rally for Shiv Sena candidate Prakash Abitkar in Radhanagari tehsil in Kolhapur district, Patil also took potshots at Pawar's party, which is hit by defections.

The party is facing attrition because it is taking too long to come to terms with its defeat in May national elections, the former minister said.

Sahasrabuddhe, who himself hails from Maharashtra, said the state politics has always been caste ridden, but in the last five years the BJP government has succeeded in shunning its identification with any caste group.

Selja said the Congress functions like a united entity and everyone will together contest the October 21 assembly polls in Haryana to bring it back to power.

Reiterating its demand that Tamil be made one of the official languages at the Centre, the DMK said it was being blamed for "doing politics," in the name of Tamil.

The list of 90 party workers include 40 people who were stripped of their organisational posts after disciplinary action was initiated against them last week.

Congress leader Manish Tewari said a strange spectre of authoritarianism has been let loose across the country ever since the NDA-BJP government came into office for the second time.

Karnataka Tourism Minister CT Ravi said the interests of various mafias were more important for the Congress and Rahul Gandhi than the safety and lives of wild animals.

Nath said the sentiment and will to invest in the country currently does not exist, which further amplifies the problems.

Senior RSS leader Sunil Ambekar says the Sangh has grown over a period of 90 years and it works on societal issues.

Politics is not a career, it is service to the people, he said, hitting out at leaders who switch parties in the belief it would be better for their careers.

The list did not name a candidate from Worli in Mumbai, from where Shiv Sena youth wing leader Aaditya Thackeray — son of Raj's cousin Uddhav Thackeray — will be making his electoral debut.

Congress General Secretary KC Venugopal has called the meeting of all state in-charge to take stock of the padyatra programe to be held on October 2, the birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.

As of now, the BSP has announced 41 candidates for Haryana assembly polls while the candidate list for Maharashtra elections is yet to be confirmed.