Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramiah has defended his son Yathindra after a viral video was posted by several opposition leaders claiming that Yathindra a former MLA of Varuna, was involved in an alleged 'Cash for Posting' scam.
With two weeks left for the Rajasthan Assembly elections, the Congress in the state suffered a double blow as former Congress minister Ram Gopal Bairwa and former MLA Asoka Tanwar and several other leaders joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.
Kushwaha took the membership of the party in the presence of Congress National President Mallikarjun Kharge in Madhya Pradesh's Gwalior district on Tuesday.
In the same case, in the case of criminal intimidation (Section 506), two years of imprisonment and a fine of Rs 10,000 have been imposed and both sentences will run concurrently.
Denied a ticket by the Congress to contest the upcoming Telangana Assembly elections, former MLA P Vishnuvardhan Reddy is set to join the ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS).
Former MLA Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy quit the BJP and returned to the Congress on Wednesday, claiming that people were looking at the grand old party to oust the Bharat Rashtra Samiti (BRS) from power in Telangana.
In a major setback for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) ahead of the upcoming elections in Telangana, former MLA Komatireddy Rajagopal Reddy has decided to part ways with the party and asserted that he is witnessing a notable shift in Telangana's political landscape.
Tiwari is a grandson of former MP assembly speaker late Srinivas Tiwari and Chaudhary is a former MLA from Gunaur assembly constituency in Panna district.
The Congress's former MLA Kulbir Singh Zira, who was arrested on Tuesday morning for allegedly obstructing officials from performing their official duties, said he would expose the "illicit mining and drug trade with evidence" once he is out of jail.
Congress leader and a former MLA from Nagod constituency of Madhya Pradesh's Satna, Yadvendra Singh, resigned from the party on Monday after being denied a ticket for the upcoming assembly elections in the state.
Former MLA Kuldeep Singh Senger is also a convict in this case. Their appeals are pending before the Delhi High Court, and they are serving a ten-year jail term.
Meena made the remark while addressing a press conference in the state capital Bhopal on Friday. She left the BJP on Tuesday, September 19 and was inducted to AAP in the presence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in Delhi on Thursday.