Mamata Banerjee, while unveiling candidates for all 42 seats on Sunday, assured a formidable challenge against the Congress and the CPI(M). She also announced the TMC's intention to field a candidate in Meghalaya.
Samajwadi Party MP Dimple Yadav on Tuesday congratulated the Congress and the Samajwadi Party on the confirmation of seat sharing in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, and excluded confidence in winning the polls.
After Swami Prasad Maurya resigned from the Samajwadi Party, party leader Dimple Yadav on Tuesday mentioned how the party has supported him a lot since he joined the party and also asserted that the party respects him a lot.
The SP has fielded Dimple Yadav, wife of former Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav from Mainpuri and Shafiqur Rahman Barq from Sambhal and Ravidas Mehrotra from Lucknow.
The Mainpuri MP, in a response to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's call to celebrate Diwali on January 22, said that the workers of the BJP should distribute ghee door-to-door and in all villages so that people can perform the lightening of the 'Shri Ram Jyoti'.
Forty-nine opposition MPs, including Farooq Abdullah, Supriya Sule, Dimple Yadav and Shashi Tharoor, were on Tuesday suspended from Lok Sabha for the remainder of the winter session, a day after 33 MPs were suspended from the House for "misconduct".
In a security breach in Lok Sabha, two men jumped into the House from the visitor's gallery and had canisters in their hand, Congress MP Karti Chidambaram said.
Samajwadi Party (SP) Chief Akhilesh Yadav fired salvos at the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), alleging that the latter is trying to divert the attention of the public from basic issues like inflation and unemployment.
Talking to ANI, Dimple, the wife of Akhilesh Yadav alleged that the ruling party of the state does not want to Jayprakash Narayan, the stalwart of the socialism in the country to be "respected".