Trinamool Congress leader and one of the associates of TMC strongman Shahjahan Sheikh, Shibu Hazra, who was arrested earlier in connection with the Sandeshkhali violence issue, was sent to police custody for eight days on Sunday.
Amid speculations of some big Congress leaders giving thought to switching sides as the Opposition alliance stares at a collapse, media reports claimed that Congress leader and Lok Sabha MP from Punjab's Anandpur Sahib, Manish Tewari, is in touch with the BJP and can jump ship.
Political circles were abuzz on Saturday amid speculation that former Madhya Pradesh chief minister and veteran Congress leader Kamal Nath may join the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP).
A post of a former Congress leader and BJP state spokesperson Narendra Saluja on X, ahead of Nath's arrival in Delhi, has given wings to the speculation.
Madhya Pradesh BJP president VD Sharma took an indirect jibe at senior Congress leader and former Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Saturday. Sharma claimed that several leaders were upset with the grand old party rejecting the invitation for the 'Pran Pratishtha' ceremony of Ram Lalla in Ayod
Hours after its government in Telangana brought a resolution in the Assembly on Friday to conduct a statewide caste census, Congress leader Deepa Dasmunshi said it marked the fulfilment of the dream and vision of Rahul Gandhi.
"This government should pay attention to the law and order. The gangs and their leaders should be put under tight control in the state," Governor Radhakrishnan told reporters after the swearing-in ceremony, where eight leaders from Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Congress leaders took oath
Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday addressed the youth and hit out at the BJP-led central government saying that this government wants them to become contractual labourers.
BJP leader Yogendra Singh Tanwar, the agent of the party's Rajya Sabha candidate Chunnilal Garasiya, wrote to the Returning Officer, Election of Council of States (Rajya Sabha), objecting to what he claimed as an incomplete disclosure of immovable assets in Form 26 filed by Congress leade
The Supreme Court on Friday granted bail to Souvik Bhattacharya, son of Trinamool Congress leader Manik Bhattacharya, in the alleged teacher recruitment irregularities case.
A team of the Enforcement Directorate is conducting raids on close associates of former West Bengal education minister and jailed ruling Trinamool Congress leader Partha Chatterjee in Kolkata, as per sources.