Former Congress MLA Hari Vallabh Shukla along with his supporters and other congress leaders took the membership of the saffron party in the presence of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav at the state BJP office in Bhopal.
Delhi's Karkardooma Court on Friday modified the condition related to travel in an order granting bail to advocate and former Congress Councillor Ishrat Jahan. She is accused in two Delhi riots cases. After the modification, she can travel within India.
Reacting to former Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam's allegations that Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut is the kingpin of the 'khichdi' scam, party's spokesperson, Anand Dubey accused the former Congressman of "intentionally trying to malign the image" of his party's candidate.
"When I started working on this scam, I came to know that the 'kingpin' was someone else. The kingpin in this whole scam is Shiv Sena (UBT) spokesperson, Sanjay Raut...," Nirupam said while speaking to reporters at a press conference on Monday.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and former Congress legislator Rajinder Rana served a defamation notice to Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu for alleging horse trading.
Vallabh, who had been very vocal for the party and represented the party on several TV debates, said that he had found himself uncomfortable with several stands taken by the party.
In his first reaction after severing all ties with the party, former Congress leader Gourav Vallabh said on Thursday he was 'hurt' over its silence when some bigshots in the party and its partners in the INDIA bloc spewed venom on Sanatan Dharma.
Amid mounting scrutiny over Congress party's financial dealings, former Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam lashed out the Congress party on Monday stating that the 'money of the country has been looted' and hence the party has to deal with investigations.
Asserting that powerful women will change the destiny of the country, the former Congress chief asked why, even today only one in three women is employed and why is there only one woman in 10 government jobs.
All six now disqualified Congress MLAs--Rajinder Singh Rana, Sudhir Sharma, Chaitanya Sharma, Ravi Thakur, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal and Davinder Bhutto-- had cross-voted in in the Rajya Sabha election in favour of BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan against Congress' senior leader Abhishek Mani Singh
The BJP which released its 5th list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, fielded Jindal from Haryana's Kurukshetra constituency, a parliamentary seat already represented by the leader from 2004-2014.