The BJP has launched an attack on West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee and one of her party MPs, Nusrat Jahan, after the latter publicly said that the saffron party is more dangerous than the coronavirus. What did Nusrat Jahan say? TMC’s Basirhat MP Nusrat Jahan during a meeting in her constituency had said, “Keep...

The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has requested the Speaker of the Rajasthan Vidhan Sabha to disqualify six MLAs, who contested and won the 2018 Assembly polls on BSP symbol. The president of the Rajasthan state unit of the BSP, Bhagwan Singh Baba, submitted the petition demanding the disqualification of the BSP MLAs as they have...

The All India Congress Committee (AICC) has finally revamped the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee (RPCC) and announced a new executive for the state. The announcement comes as the state is going for the second phase of the civic poll due on January 28. The party, 175 days after the previous committee headed by Sachin Pilot...

In a bid to show solidarity with the farmers protesting against the contentious farm laws passed by the Centre, Rajasthan Congress workers on Sunday assembled at the Shaheed Smaarak to stage protest against the Union government. Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot and party leader Sachin Pilot shared the platform to the delight of the Congress...

The Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday announced that it will contest the upcoming local body elections in Gujarat. The announcement was made by the party’s Delhi MP and spokesperson Atishi. While releasing the first list of 504 candidates on Sunday, AAP has asserted that it will contest from all the seats in...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday said that she will continue to fight and work for the people. Banerjee, the chief of Trinamool Congress (TMC), said this at her party’s 23rd Foundation Day. Notably, TMC is credited for uprooting the Left Front from Bengal that ruled for 34 years in the state. Mamata...

Five lawmakers from the Trinamool Congress (TMC) have written to President Ram Nath Kovind seeking the removal of West Bengal Governor Jagdeep Dhankhar. The letter, which is critical of the governor for interfering with the state legislature, has been written by TMC MPs Derek O’Brien, Kalyan Banerjee, Sukhendu Sekhar Roy, Sudip Bandyopadhyay and Kakoli Ghosh...

In what could be a fresh trouble for Nitish Kumar, Shyam Rajak, a former national general secretary of the JD(U) who joined the RJD ahead of the recently-concluded Bihar Assembly polls, has claimed that 17 MLAs from Kumar’s party are willing to shift to RJD. The development comes at a time when the JD(U) leadership...

Rajasthan is keen to host the All India Congress Committee’s national convention next year. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot during his recent meeting with the party’s interim president, Sonia Gandhi, proposed to hold the national convention of the AICC in the state. It is learnt that Gehlot has proposed that the convention may be held in...

BJP and Congress on Monday indulged in a war of words with leaders from both parties taking dig at each other. While the BJP criticised Rahul Gandhi’s foreign trip on Congress’ 136th Foundation Day, on Monday the Congress targeted PM Modi and equated the BJP’s rule with that of the East India Company over the...

After the poor performance of the JD(U) in Bihar Assembly elections and the recent humiliation after six party MLAs in Arunachal Pradesh defected to the BJP, Nitish Kumar on Sunday handed over the party’s leadership to Ramchandra Prasad Singh. Singh, a close confidante of Nitish Kumar, was chosen as JD(U) chief in the party’s national...

Following the humiliation faced by Nitish Kumar after 6 JD(U) MLAs switched over to BJP in Arunachal Pradesh, the Congress has warned the veteran politician to beware of the BJP’s “poaching skill”. Congress leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury has asked Kumar to stay in touch with the opposition in Bihar as an “antidote to withstand the...