Politics

Owaisi asked why the government allocated Rs 1,150 crore for Kumbh Mela if it wants to put an end to religious appeasement.

The JDS founder and former Prime Minister H D Deve Gowda and his son, former chief minister H D Kumaraswamy, broke their long silence on Sankranthi festival day, ending the endless speculations over their stand.

S Gurumurthy, Editor of Thuglak magazine, said Kamal's ideology matches with the Dravidian politics, while that of Rajinikanth's is inclined towards the BJP.

In an exclusive interview to CNN-News18, Karnataka minister RV Deshpande talks about Congress' strategy to defeat the rival party in the upcoming assembly elections in the state and much more.

Congress's chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala said the "pseudo-nationalist" BJP now wanted to give "certificates of loyalty" to the armed forces.

The Congress leader claimed growth in the manufacturing sector has also come down and unemployment has increased. He claimed there was a slowdown in the country's real estate and the manufacturing sectors.

The former JD(U) MP claimed that then Congress chief Sonia Gandhi had laid the foundation stone for the same project four years back and added that Modi was doing it again on account of the upcoming bypolls to two Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Lalu Prasad Yadav was sentenced to three-and-a-half years in jail by the CBI court on January 6 for fraudulent withdrawl from Deoghar treasury between 1990 and 1994 when he was the Bihar chief minister.

The BJP leader, Radhe Shyam Dhakad, while addressing the gathering on Sunday said if Jyotiraditya Scindia poses a challenge to CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan, it would imply that he is also challenging the Kirar and Dhakad communities.

Trinamool Congress MLA Manju Basu’s statement came hours after the West Bengal unit of BJP announced her name as its candidate for the West Bengal bypoll.

The central probe agency is now awaiting an apex court order to work on its next step to ensure Kumar’s presence before their Investigating Officer (IO) probing the scam.

Naidu said though Parliament was a political institution, it "cannot be an extension of politics in its typical sense which is marked by deep divisions and acrimony."

Like other political parties born of popular causes — independence, social justice, etc — AAP owes its origins to a mass movement against corruption.

CNN-News18 had reported on Tuesday that AAP has finalised the names of Sanjay Singh, a member of its Political Affairs Committee, Sushil Gupta, a businessman-cum-social worker, and N D Gupta, a chartered accountant for its Rajya Sabha seats.

The Centre’s inclination towards the scheme was bolstered by recent meeting between PM Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan in New Delhi in which the latter gave a detailed presentation on the scheme.

Gupta, who has been the Chairman of Delhi’s Punjabi Bagh Club for the last 25 years and chairman of the Punjabi Bagh Co-operative Housing Society for 13 years, is technically, not even a member of the Aam Aadmi Party.