Addressing the media after launching his election campaign logo 'Makkalai Kaappom, Thamizhagathai Meetpom' (Let's Protect the People, Let's Redeem Tamil Nadu), Palaniswami said, "All like-minded parties should unite to defeat the DMK, which is anti-people and whoever wants DMK to get defe
The Waqf Amendment Bill is set to be tabled today. Congress and INDIA bloc leaders oppose it, citing concerns over its constitutional validity, with parties issuing whips for support. Other like-minded parties are urged to oppose the bill.
The Axis My India has predicted a hung assembly in Jammu and Kashmir with the National Conference-Congress alliance slightly ahead and the BJP tailgating the opposition.
According to TV-Today C-voter projections, the NC-Congress alliance is likely to win 40-48 seats while the BJP can win 27-32. Former Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti-led People's Democratic Party is likely to win 6-12 seats whereas others can win 6-11.
Accusing the Congress of being immature, Communist Party of India Telangana Secretary Kunamneni Sambasiva Rao urged the party to be wise enough to bring along all ideologically like-minded parties to defeat the BJP which, he said, is a "theocratic" party.
On a day the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) named its candidates for 8 of the 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab, Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal denied speculations of reaching any alliance with the BJP but did not entirely rule out the possibility of a tie-up in future.<
The cracks between the Aam Aadmi Party and Congress, "like-minded" parties in the INDIA bloc, in Punjab have widened after Sukhpal Singh Khaira, MLA from the grand old party, was arrested by the state police early in the morning, a move that brought the Bhagwant Mann government heavy crit
"Around 18-19 like-minded parties who believe in democracy have come together. Meetings have been conducted from Patna to Bengaluru and we have decided to name the alliance as 'INDIA'," he said while talking to the reporters.
Mayawati lashed out at the alliance of 26-like minded parties, INDIA, and said the Congress is dreaming of coming back to the Centre by forming an alliance with casteist, capitalist-minded parties like itself.
Lashing out at the 26-like minded parties for not inviting All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) in the two-day opposition meeting concluded in Bengaluru on Tuesday, party leader Waris Pathan said that the "so called" secular parties are treating them as "political untouchables".
The second and concluding day of the opposition unity meeting in Bengaluru was held, with 26 like-minded parties closing ranks with a common aim of taking on the Bharatiya Janata Party in the next year's Lok Sabha polls.