Congress president Rahul Gandhi today said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi is insulting the common man by claiming credit for India's progress. Rahul, who is on a two-day tour of Karnataka from today, accused the BJP of dividing people despite its talk of dharma. Wherever Narendra Modi goes he says in the last 70 years nothing has happened. He is insulting your parents, poor farmers, labourers, small businessmen of India. If this country stands as equal to other countries of the world today, it has not happened in two years. It has taken years of time, sweat and blood of common people ... Read More

On the day of Ugadi a new political party was born in Karnataka. The new outfit named Bharatiya Janashakti Congress or BJC wants to take on the ruling Congress and main opposition BJP in the Assembly polls likely to be held in May. The founder of the party is Anupama Shenoy, a controversial former police officer. Shenoy, a DySP rank officer, had the Karnataka Police Service after a major showdown with the Siddaramaiah government two years ago. After her attempts to take her resignation back failed, Shenoy has taken a plunge into politics. Just 20 people attended the launch which took ... Read More

Terming the first year of BJP rule in the Uttar Pradesh as a year of setting bad examples, BSP chief Mayawati on Tuesday asked the Yogi Adityanath government to seriously introspect on its failures. Ek Saal, Buri Misaal, said Mayawati as she claimed that the people had assessed the one year of the Yogi government and given it a zero. They have been taught a lesson in Phulpur and Gorakhpur Lok Sabha by-elections. It is my suggestion to the BJP government to seriously introspect on its failures instead of celebrating one year in office, Mayawati said. It is the fallout of the unfulfil ... Read More

Four candidates -- two each of the Congress and the BJP -- were today elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Gujarat, days after the last moment entry of two nominees from these parties raised the prospect of a contest. Union ministers Purshottam Rupala and Mansukh Mandavia (BJP) and Naran Rathwa and Amee Yajnik (Congress) were declared elected unopposed by the election authorities after BJP's Kiritsinh Rana and Congress-backed Independent P K Valera backed off on the last day of withdrawal of nominations today. A total of four seats were up for grabs from the state. BJP's Union mi ... Read More

Amid protests and disruptions, the TDP and the YSR Congress on Friday tried to move a no-confidence motion against the government in the Lok Sabha but it could not be taken up amid sloganeering. Thota Narasimham of the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Y.V. Subba Reddy of YSR Congress had submitted notices of no-confidence motion to the Lok Sabha Speaker. However, members from AIADMK and Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) were near the Speaker's podium while those from the Congress, Left and some other parties stood at their seats. ... Read More

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati today said the BJP may call for early Lok Sabha elections after its stunning defeat in the parliamentary bypolls in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, whose gamble of backing the Samajwadi Party for the bypolls in Gorakhpur and Phulpur in the state paid rich dividends, said the idea was to teach the party a lesson. Addressing a rally here, she labelled the Narendra Modi government at the Centre a dictatorship and alleged that it had surpassed the Emergency imposed by the Congress government in 1975. Mayawati also accused ... Read More