The funeral procession of Oommen Chandy that began this morning from Thiruvananthapuram to his hometown Puthupally witnessed a massive crowd lining the roads to bid farewell to the Congress veteran.
Chandy's mortal remains were brought to Thiruvananthapuram from Bengaluru on a special flight on Tuesday afternoon. They would be kept at various places including Durbar Hall of the state secretariat, St George Orthodox Syrian Cathedral, the KPCC headquarters and his residence in the stat
Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi is likely to shift his residence to the house of former Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dixit here in the national capital, sources said on Wednesday.
Fulfilling his Padayatra promise, Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy laid the foundation stone for the revival of the Chittoor Cooperative Dairy, on Tuesday, and made a Memorandum of Understanding with the representatives of Amul Dairy, which would invest Rs. 385 crore.
"This type of dictatorship...what is the fate of our democracy? This is a sample. This is a dictatorship. We are not coming here to politicise. We are coming here just to meet the people who are suffering, just to console them," said Ibobi.
"BJP is doing politics of misleading the tribal and their (BJP) thinking is to exploit the tribal. For example, why did they (BJP) take 18 years to implement the PESA Act? Scam was also done in the implementation of PESA Act, every scheme for BJP becomes a medium of scam," Nath said.
"No one raised fingers at me in my 47 years of political journey about corruption and today they (BJP) are saying that Kamal Nath is corrupt. The BJP government has been in power for the last three years and if there was corruption during our government, then why didn't they file a case, why
Former Karnataka CM Basavaraja Bommai met former CM and senior BJP leader BS Yediyurappa here on Friday amid discussions in the party to decide the Leader of the Opposition.
Amid the row over the Centre's Ordinance with respect to the control of services in Delhi, Former Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken on Sunday left a piece of advice for Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal while recalling the tenure of the late Sheila Dikshit as CM.
"All government offices, departments, boards, corporations and educational institutions in Punjab will remain shut on Thursday (April 27)," the official order said.
Earlier central government on Tuesday, declared two days of national mourning following the demise of former Punjab Chief Min
Leader of Opposition in West Bengal Assembly Suvendu Adhikari on Thursday challenged West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee saying he would retire from politics if fail to unseat Mamata Banerjee from the chief ministerial post.