Politics

UP BJP President Keshav Prasad Maurya, who was considered one of the frontrunners for the post of Chief Minister, may be out of the reckoning. The party’s national president, Amit Shah, on Thursday said he had given Maurya the responsibility of “selecting...

Newly inducted Punjab Cabinet Minister Manpreet Singh Badal on Thursday said priority of the Amarinder Singh-led Congress government will be to restore the “lost glory” of the state.

Participating in the resumed discussion on Demands for Grants of Railways Ministry for 2017-18, NCP's Tariq Anwar and SP's Dharmendra Yadav questioned the decision. But BJP's Ravindra Kumar Roy said it has helped to pull the Railways out of "cheap populis...

The National Conference and Congress on Wednesday decided to jointly contest the forthcoming Lok Sabha bypolls in Jammu and Kashmir, in a bid to put up a "combined fight against the ruling PDP-BJP coalition."

The Rajya Sabha has been adjourned after uproar by Congress MPs over the decisions of Goa and Manipur Governor’s to invite the BJP for government formations. The Congress emerged as the single-largest in both these states.

In the Odisha Zilla Parishad elections, that concluded last month, the Congress managed to grab 60 seats, compared to 128 which it won in 2012 elections. BJD secured 473 seats and BJP 297 seats.

The Congress on Tuesday alleged that Goa Governor Mridula Sinha did not invite it to form government in the state despite the party giving her a letter on Sunday seeking appointment to stake the claim.

Samajwadi Party (SP) leader Mulayam Singh Yadav on Saturday defended his son Akhilesh Yadav after the party's humiliating loss in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, saying "no one person is responsible for the defeat".

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, having ended what the BJP often described in its campaigns as '14 saal ka vanvaas', will appear in public for the first time since his party's landslide victory in UP and a record victory in Uttarakhand.

Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday submitted his resignation to Governor V P Singh Badnore following his party's defeat in the assembly polls.

Uttar Pradesh's Sahibabad assembly seat saw the winner with highest victory margin of 1,50,685 votes, while the winning candidate at Manipur's Sagolband seat scraped through with a small margin of 19 votes -- lowest in all 689 seats in five states that we...

BJP on Saturday scored a massive victory in Uttarakhand winning 56 of the 70 seats in the state to storm to power, reducing Congress to minuscule minority in the state Assembly with a poor tally of 11 seats.

BJP President Amit Shah on Saturday credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pro-poor policies for his party's big win in Uttar Pradesh with over two-thirds majority.

After trailing at the start, Harvinder Singh Phoolka of AAP has won the seat in Dakha.

Balbir Singh Sidhu of INC has won the seat in SAS Nagar by securing 66,844 votes

Charanjit Singh Channi of INC has won the seat in Chamkaur Sahib by securing 61060 votes.