Politics

In 2014 Lok Sabha and Assembly polls, Congress has lost power tally in the state and win in the crucial BMC polls could prove to be boost to the party cadre.

While campaigning as a BJP candidate from Pilibhit in 2009, Varun had drawn a controversy over his alleged hate speeches.

The question is whether Smriti Irani has really been cut to size or whether she has been relieved of big responsibilities with an eye on the UP polls.

Targeting the Prime Minister and his government on the issue, he said that the people who opposed the GST Bill bitterly when the UPA was in power were the "the present Prime Minister, Finance Minister and External Minister and also the entire BJP".

BJP MP from Mandla in Madhya Pradesh, Faggan Singh Kulaste who was born on 18 May 1959, at 57 is another senior leader.

"In the objectionable post, Mayawati has been portrayed as 'Miss Universe' along with satire against the reservation policy and Indian constitution," Boudh Yuva Jagran Manch president Dipak Wagh said.

BJP and JD(U) has demanded immediate arrest of AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi.

The Cabinet will get a new Minister of State for Sports (independent charge), a post which fell vacant after Sarbananda Sonowal became the Chief Minister of Assam.

"The media created an unnecessary hype and wrongly claimed that Mukhtar was inducted into SP," he said

Modi had on Monday said that he disapproved Swamy's attacks on Reserve Bank of India Governor Raghuram Rajan and some top Finance Ministry officials saying they are inappropriate.

Shah sounded the poll bugle from BJP's 'Shankhnad' rally in Haridwar on Saturday describing the Rawat government as "the most corrupt" and asking people to dislodge it in the 2017 Assembly elections and give the mandate to BJP.

The Congress leaders alleged that prices of dal and essential food items such as vegetables, grains have skyrocketed and the government is ignorant to the burden on the common man.

The ED has not mentioned the name of Vadra or any company linked to him in the FIR but it named some state government officials and some of the "land mafia".

Rajan, who has been credited with bringing down inflation and launching a clean-up operation of the banking sector, was hounded with public statements by BJP leaders, forcing him to give up on an extension of his term.

Kejriwal had accused Lieutenant Governor Najeeb Jung of trying to "save" Girri and NDMC vice-chairman Karan Singh Tanwar in Khan's murder.

The MLAs who have been expelled for six years are Sanjay Pratap Jayaswal (Basti district), Madhuri Verma (Bahraich), Vijay Dube (Kushinagar), Mohammed Muslim (Tiloi-Amethi), Dil Nawaz Khan (Bulandshahar) and Nawab Kasim Ali Khan (Rampur).