Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday said people want to get rid of the JD(U)-BJP government in the upcoming Assembly polls in Bihar adding that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is acting in an "unconscious state" recently.
The 129th Constitutional Amendment Bill for simultaneous national and assembly polls was tabled in the Lok Sabha in December last year. It was later referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shahzad Poonawalla on Sunday accused the RJD of repeatedly insulting Babasaheb Ambedkar and said that the party has a "non-constitutional ideology".
With a focus on Meghalaya's state election scheduled for 2028, the state unit of the party has announced a new team of office bearers, after approval by the BJP National President, J P Nadda.
Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor came up with a suggestion for Union Minister and LJP (Ram Vilas) President Chirag Paswan, and said that if Chirag wants to make a genuine impact in Bihar politics, he must quit as Union Minister and work for Bihar.
"It is good that the ECI realised that its rock-bottom credibility will not be salvaged by issuing anonymous, unsigned letters - but by acceding to the opposition's demands. In fact, BJP top brass coming out in its defence only confirmed the people's suspicions of match fixing between BJP
Union Minister for Road Transport and Highways Nitin Gadkari on Monday slammed Rahul Gandhi over his allegations concerning Maharashtra assembly polls, saying that the Congress leader is making such remarks after losing the polls and it is not good "to dismiss a mandate".
Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has not written any letter to the Election Commission of India (ECI) or sought any time for a meeting even 24 hours after he raised allegations of "rigging" in the assembly polls held in November last year, sources in the poll body said.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrived in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, late Saturday evening. He is scheduled to chair a meeting of the Tamil Nadu BJP's state core committee and interact with the party's state, district, and mandal-level office bearers.