Congress leaders, including former MLA Arunoday Choubey and Shivdayal Bagri, joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav in the state capital Bhopal on Monday.
The Rouse Avenue Court on Thursday suspended the seven years sentence awarded to former MLA Ranbir Singh Kharb and his wife Anita Kharb in a charting case.
Bahujan Samaj Party leader and former MLA Shah Alam, alias Guddu Jamali, switched sides ahead of the Lok Sabha polls and joined the Samajwadi Party in the presence of party president Akhilesh Yadav in Lucknow on Wednesday.
The Rouse Avenue court has awarded former MLA of Najafgarh Ranbir Singh Kharb and his wife, Anita Kharb, seven years of jail punishment in a cheating and criminal conspiracy case. The court has also imposed a fine of Rs. 44 lakh on the couple.
The Congress leaders took the membership of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the presence of BJP state chief VD Sharma, and other senior leaders of BJP at party headquarters in the state capital Bhopal. Besides, several Congress workers joined the saffron party as well on the occasion.
Various congress leaders including MLA from Jabhua Vikrant Bhuria, former treasurer of MP Congress Govind Goyal, former Lok Sabha Candidate of Congress party Devashish Jarariya and former MLA Madhu Bhagat received the notice from the IT department.
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik paid his tributes to Veteran BJD leader and Former MLA V Sugnana Kumari Deo in the BJD party office, in Bhubaneswar.
Deputy leader of opposition Hemant Katare, former minister PC Sharma, former MLA Kunal Chaudhary, Congress leader KK Mishra and others were present on the occasion.
A Delhi Court has ordered the release of gangster Deepak Pahal alias Deepak Boxer, in connection with a firing incident at the residence of liquor baron and former MLA from Faridkot, Deep Malhotra, in Delhi's West Punjabi Bagh on December 3, 2023.
Satwant Singh Mohi, a former MLA from Shatrana, has been arrested and raids are being conducted to arrest the other remaining accused, an official statement said on Thursday.
Former MLA from the Khonsa (West) constituency in Arunachal Pradesh, Yumsem Matey, has reportedly been assassinated near the Indo-Myanmar border in the Tirap district, said the police on Saturday.