Due to the growing political pressure being exerted by the rebels led by Sachin Pilot, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot is likely to expand his Cabinet this week. Pilot, who is camping in Delhi and in touch with Priyanka Gandhi, has been insisting that the MLAs who sided with him during last year’s rebellion should...

Former deputy chief minister of Rajasthan Sachin Pilot will hold talks with AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on the current political crisis in Rajasthan Congress. Pilot has denied the speculation that he was joining the BJP. The Congress leader said he never had any conversation with BJP leader Rita Bahuguna on the issue of joining...

In a major blow for the BJP, the saffron party’s first import from the Trinamool Congress in Bengal and its national vice president, Mukul Roy, on Friday returned to TMC ending weeks of speculations. His son, Shubhranshu, also returned to TMC. He was felicitated by TMC MP and Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee at the...

Ten months after leading a rebellion along with 19 dissident MLAs, Sachin Pilot has once again raised his voice. Pilot was waiting for the lockdown in the state to end to demand the rehabilitation of his group. Notably, the development comes at a time when former Union minister and a close aide of Rahul Gandhi,...

In a major blow to the Congress ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly election scheduled next year, former Union minister Jitin Prasada on Wednesday joined the BJP. He met Union ministers Amit Shah and Piyush Goyal before officially joining the saffron party in Delhi. He also met party president JP Nadda at his residence. This...

Rajasthan’s former deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot has expressed his inability to take charge as the AICC general secretary in-charge for Gujarat. The position of the party’s general secretary for Gujarat fell vacant due to the untimely demise of Rajiv Satav of Maharashtra. After the inability expressed by Pilot to take up the responsibility of...

In yet another embarrassment for the BJP that failed to clinch power from Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, several leaders of the saffron party who left the Trinamool Congress to join BJP are again queuing up to rejoin TMC. Notably, before the polls, these TMC turncoats, including MLAs and MPs, made a beeline to join...

Even as the elections are over, the tussle between West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and the BJP-led Union government continues. Banerjee is now miffed with the Centre for issuing a unilateral order asking Bengal chief secretary Alapan Bandyopadhyay to report to the Union government. Banerjee wrote a long letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi...

After the Congress leaders who had complained against BJP’s Sambit Patra for an alleged fake tweet were issued notice by the Delhi Police, the Congress has up its ante against the Union government on the issue. Notably, the Delhi Police that comes under the Ministry of Home Affairs has launched a probe into the toolkit...

In a further escalation of the Congress toolkit controversy, the Delhi Police has served notices to two Congress leaders who had complained against BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra’s alleged manipulated tweet on the issue. The two Congress leaders—Rohan Gupta and Rajiv Gowda—have been asked by the police to join the investigation and record their statements. Meanwhile,...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee is all set to contest the Assembly bypoll from Bhowanipore—a seat that she sacrificed to contest against TMC turncoat Suvendu Adhikari from Nandigram which eventually resulted in her defeat. Trinamool Congress (TMC) MLA Shobhandeb Chatterjee, who won the poll from Bhowanipore, has resigned from the Assembly to make way...

In a major embarrassment for BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra, a tweet by him on the alleged toolkit prepared by the Congress to bring disrepute to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic has been labelled as ‘manipulated media’ by Twitter on Thursday. According to the social media giant’s user policies, it may label...