For decades a sleepy town that came into the national spotlight only in the wake of the Ram Janmabhoomi movement of 1980, the now infamous Rath Yatra taken out by BJP stalwart Lal Krishna Advani on October 30, 1990 to push for a Ram Temple in Ayodhya and the police firing on Kar Sevaks ju
Amethi has been a stronghold of the Congress party for decades, until Bharatiya Janata Party leader Smriti Irani won the Lok Sabha elections in 2019 against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, ending the Gandhi family's stint there.
Amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections in the country, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday said that the INDIA alliance government, if formed, will work for the empowerment of women.
Terming Union Home Minister Amit Shah's remarks on the Supreme Court judgement on Arvind Kejriwal's interim bail as "objectionable," Rajya Sabha MP and Senior Advocate Kapil Sibal on Thursday said that if the Home Minister had knowledge about the law, then he shouldn't have made such remarks
The Aam Aadmi Party and the Samajwadi Party are partners in the INDIA bloc in their fight against the Bharatiya Janata Party in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
Defying a question on Uttar Pradesh's contribution in gaining '400 seats' in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls, BJP candidate from the Sultanpur Lok Sabha constituency Maneka Gandhi on Thursday said she did no analysis on Uttar Pradesh but kept her eyes stick to Sultanpur.
In a scathing and unsparing attack on his Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee and the ruling Trinamool Congress, Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma accused her of leading a government for 'appeasement'.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asserted that to bring the entire Jammu and Kashmir to India, the Bharatiya Janata Party needs 400 seats in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, adding that for Congress, India is an "idea," but for the BJP, its an "Janani Janam Bhoomi."
Stating its opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act, Indian Union Muslim League (IUML) national general secretary PK Kunjalikutty on Thursday said that implementation of CAA during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections is taken to influence the polls and an action must be initiated against it.
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman demanded that the ruling coalition be dismissed and fresh elections called for without the "interference of establishment", ARY News reported.
Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan called Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal "Corruption-wal" (corrupt man) and alleged that the latter has broken all records in corruption.
"Rahul Gandhi, who is spreading false propaganda in Telangana that reservations will end and the constitution is in danger, not a single person is believing it. Be it the Telangana CM or Rahul Gandhi, they have done false campaigning against the BJP for the elections," Reddy said.