Hours after the Election Commission declared the Ajit Pawar-led faction of the Nationalist Congress Party, as the 'real' NCP, Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said that the decision of the poll panel showed the power of democracy.
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday extended his best wishes to Maharashtra Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and said that the decision taken by the Election Commission is "based on merit."
Weighing in on the Election Commission's decision to allocate the NCP name and party symbol to the ruling faction in the NDA government led by Ajit Pawar, former Home Minister Anil Deshmukh, from the Sharad Pawar-led rival faction called it 'unfortunate' and a 'murder of democracy'.
"What happens by taking cognizance? Cognizance was taken in Maharashtra too. The murder of democracy first happened in Maharashtra. What did the Supreme Court do? The Assembly Speaker did not listen to it (SC) and made a wrong decision and established an unconstitutional government, now we w
The Supreme Court on Monday came down heavily on the Returning Officer who held the Chandigarh Mayor elections, saying he was "murdering democracy" and ordered the preservation of the entire record of the election process, including ballot papers, videography and other material, through t
"A black night and a black chapter was added to the democracy of the country on the night of January 31. I think this is the first time in the country's history that a Chief Minister was arrested inside the Rajbhavan. I don't remember if this has happened before or not. I think Rajbhavan has
"The institutions are those that give body and strength to our democracy, whether it's parliament, whether it's an independent election commission, whether it's the information commission or the Reserve Bank of India. All of these institutions have found their independence vitiated," Tharoor
After former Deputy Prime Minister LK Advani was conferred with Bharat Ratna, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday took a dig at the Congress party and said that the veteran BJP leader persistently fought all his life to free the democracy of India from the hold of one party and one f
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Saturday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi for conferring Bharat Ratna to former Union Minister LK Advani and said that the Bharatiya Janata Party stalwart has strengthened the country and democracy through his parliamentary and administrative abilitie
Expressing concern over the "deteriorating" situation in Myanmar, India has urged for an early resolution to the conflict with the return of peace and stability in the country.
Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday asserted that the BJP-led government at the Centre has worked with an approach to development that is "all-round, all-inclusive and all-pervasive" ('sarvangin', 'sarvasparshi' and 'sarvasamaveshi') and said that the trinity of "Democracy, De