Lalmani Verma

Nitish Kumar also said he has not received any proposal from the BJP so far regarding seat-sharing in the 2019 Lok Sabha election.

Ostensibly upset with party affairs in the state, and working style of BJP state unit general secretary (organisation) Sunil Bansal, Om Prakash Mathur has skipped key party events in the state for nearly 9 months now.

The combination of OBC and Dalit votes in favour of the SP-BSP alliance had significantly hurt the BJP in Gorakhpur and Noorpur. Further, the proximity between the SP and the BSP appears to be growing and their alliance is likely to continue in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.

Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and top functionaries of the RSS met in New Delhi Tuesday and deliberated on the Kumbh Mela.

In the final part of a three-part series of his article ‘The Emergency Revisited’, Jaitley wrote on the role of political parties in ending the Emergency.

Arun Jaitley: “The security forces were being asked to disobey illegal orders and, therefore, in the larger interest of the nation, India had to become a ‘disciplined democracy’.”

He said that since the war with Pakistan in 1971, India was already in a declared stage of emergency under Article 352 of the Constitution on account of external aggression, and that there was no need to declare a second Emergency.

Leaders from the two parties who were planning to join any third party, too, had changed their minds after the SP and BSP announced their alliance, he claimed.

The biannual meet of the VHP, slated to begin in New Delhi from Sunday, will be attended by delegates from across the country and abroad.

Reacting to Goyal’s remarks, AICC general secretary Ashok Gehlot said Vemula’s mother had already clarified that she was not misused and would continue to speak against the BJP-led government.

The Organiser's editorial states that the elections will come and go and leaders like Rahul will emerge and fade away. “But the Gandhian values are the torch-bearers not only for this nation and but for the entire humanity, they should remain undamaged.”

With the JD(U) back in the NDA, Lalu Prasad’s Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) plans to stitch together a new anti-BJP ‘grand alliance’ for Bihar in the run-up to the Lok Sabha polls.

While New Delhi and Beijing have been engaged in finding ways to resolve the long-pending boundary dispute, the BJP’s training document tells its cadres that China was “not interested” in a resolution.

Party overhauling organisational structure, weeding out ‘inactive’ leaders

Sources said the decision to make the changes was taken in the ongoing meeting of organisation secretaries convened by the RSS in Surajkund, Haryana.

Pranab Mukherjee’s acceptance of the RSS invitation had generated tremendous anxiety within the Congress, the party to which he belonged before becoming President. In fact, several senior party leaders had expressed surprise, disbelief and even criticised his decision to visit the RSS headquarters.

A pooling of votes polled in the 2013 Madhya Pradesh assembly election show that the BJP tally would have reduced by 41 seats had the Congress and BSP come together.

Government sources said a package of around Rs 8,000 crore may be announced to reduce the stress in the sugar industry with an eye on clearing the dues of sugarcane farmers.

During the meeting, Union Minister and LJP president Ram Vilas Paswan and party’s central parliamentary board chairperson Chirag Paswan also reiterated the demand for special status for Bihar.