After her name did not figure in the BJP's first list of Lok Sabha candidates,Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti on Thursday and said that she wants to focus on her work for the rejuvenation and cleanliness of the River Ganga.
Congress Parliamentary Party Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge arrived at the party headquarters for a Central Election Committee meeting to discuss candidates for the Lok Sabha polls.
Responding to the remarks made by Union Minister Anurag Thakur that the Congress will get its farewell from Uttar Pradesh in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on Thursday said that the time will decide on who will get farewell, adding that the Bharat
In a sharp attack on Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Uma Bharti said that he talks about democracy in the country but forgets that his party declared an emergency.
Expressing surprise over the prolonged delay in the announcement of the Congress party candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Union Minister Smriti Irani on Thursday asserted that the extended timeframe might be an indicator of the Congress facing defeat in the upcoming elections.
The Supreme Court on Thursday has taken suo motu cognisance on the issue relating to Madhya Pradesh's seeking judicial services rule excluding visually impaired candidates from seeking appointment in the judicial service of Madhya Pradesh.
TR Balu who is the current MP from the Sriperumbudur constituency, however, denied speaking anything to the media before the declaration of his candidature.
After the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) announced Sunetra Pawar, wife of Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Ajit Pawar as its candidate from Baramati, Sunetra while talking to people at an event held on Wednesday sought support from the public.
"The time has now come to suspend my campaign. I said I wanted Americans to have their voices heard. I have done that. I have no regrets," she said Wednesday in South Carolina. "Although I will no longer be a candidate, I will not stop using my voice for the things I believe in," she said
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) filed a supplementary chargesheet on Wednesday in the land-for-job scam case during the tenure of former Union Rail Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav against three persons including then Special Officer to Minister of Railways and two candidates.