Congress president Rahul Gandhi is learnt to have drawn the line when he met state Congress leaders, including new state chief Mullappally Ramachandran and Leader of Opposition in Assembly Ramesh Chennithala.

When the central election committee of the BJP meets on Saturday to finalise candidates, Chhattisgarh is expected to be first on the list — the Congress has already announced candidates for 12 seats in the state.

On the significance of the date, the Prime Minister said that October 21 will mark the 75th anniversary of the announcement of the government of free India by Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose’s Azad Hindu Fauj.

While it is clear that all of them are vying for tickets hoping that the party will come to power in the state, it also suggests that many may feel the Congress may not perform well in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Congress is mounting a stiff challenge to the BJP in Madhya Pradesh, one difficulty it faces is that both its apparent chief ministerial aspirants — Kamal Nath and Jyotiraditya Scindia — are Lok Sabha MPs and have not been MLAs.

Chhattisgarh assembly polls: It also appears that neither the Congress nor the BJP wants to announce the candidate list first.

Different Dais When Samajwadi Party founder Mulayam Singh Yadav recently shared the stage with son and party chief Akhikesh, it was seen as the patriarch finally making his stand clear in the political slugfest between Akhilesh and his uncle Shivpal Yadav. He even offered his blessings to Akhilesh for victory in upcoming elections. On Friday, […]

The questions about Minister of State for External Affairs M J Akbar, who has been accused by several women of sexual harassment at workplace, have left the BJP in a spo

Home Minister Rajnath Singh elicited some chuckles while addressing a gathering of international aviation security experts at Vigyan Bhavan

The BJP is leaving no stone unturned for successive victories in a state (Rajasthan) known to alternately bring to power the BJP and the Congress over the last few elections.

While a prominent section of the Kerala leadership of the Sangh Parivar has drawn the ire of devotees for supporting the verdict, the protests in Delhi were organised with blessings of a Sangh affiliate.

Putin and Modi spoke for about three hours over dinner on Thursday, and again for one-and-a-half hours on Friday, before the delegation-level talks took place.

Mohan Bhagwat released two books on the Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri mosque issue in the capital.

A prolific tweeter, Congress social media and digital communication chief Divya Spandana Ramya has curiously not tweeted since September 29, barring retweeting Rahul Gandhi’s tweet on Wednesday.

Concluding ceremony of the Mahatma Gandhi International Sanitation Convention, attended by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.

Nobel Prize winner Kailash Satyarthi is likely to be the chief guest at the RSS’s Vijayadashami programme in Nagpur on October 18.

After Kailash Mansarovar, the self-proclaimed Shiv devotee started his Madhya Pradesh Assembly election campaign visiting a famous Ram temple in Chitrakoot.

Going by cause list, a civil case listed on October 3 states that the Supreme Court bench headed by Justices Gogoi, Sanjay Kishan Kaul and K M Joseph will be adjudicating the matter.

Amar Singh, who had been expelled from the SP, has ensured that Lok Sabha constituencies held by the SP, such as Firozabad, Mainpuri and Kannauj, are covered in the yatra.