The Election Commission of India (ECI) in its reply filed in Delhi High Court said that it can't regulate political alliances while responding to a plea against the use of the INDIA acronym for the Alliance of opposition parties
Reacting to Union Minister Rajeev Chandrasekhar's remarks, terming India's weak leadership during the 1962 war with China, Janata Dal-United leader, KC Tyagi on Wednesday said that It was not a weak leadership but China broke the agreement.
As the BJP and the opposition INDIA alliance are at loggerheads over the caste-based census, Janta Dal United (JDU) leader Neeraj Kumar has alleged that Prime Minister Narendra Modi belonged to the upper caste and he misled the voters by saying that he belonged to OBC.
Janta Dal United National President Rajiv Ranjan (Lalan) Singh met Aam Aadmi Party Member of Parliament Sanjay Singh's family at the latter's residence on Sunday.
"Ha, lehrayethe (Yes, I brandished my gun). Tum log humare baap ho ki mana karoge? (Are you my father that you will stop me?)" the JDU Minister said in a heated moment, speaking to reporters in Patna on Friday.
Janata Dal (United) leader KC Tyagi on Wednesday said that the BJP wants to defame the Aam Admi Party and the Delhi government and that is why AAP MP Sanjay Singh was arrested.
Following the release of the caste survey report by the Bihar government, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav expressed his support for it and called on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to set aside politics and conduct a nationwide caste census.
Earlier today, the Bihar government released caste survey data, with the figures that have ramifications for the Lok Sabha polls next year, showing that Other Backward Caste (OBC) and Extremely Backward Class (EBC) together account for 63 per cent of the state’s population.
Janata Dal-United (JDU) leader Neeraj Kumar on Monday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the report of the caste survey conducted in Bihar.
JDU leader and Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his ally and RJD patriarch Lalu Prasad Yadav termed the publication of the report "historic", the BJP and other prominent parties of the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) have criticised the Bihar government calling the report an “eye wash”.