Delhi's Rouse Avenue Court on Wednesday sent accused Aam Aadmi Party MLA Akhilesh Pati Tripathi's brother-in-law Om Singh and his personal assistant Shiv Shankar Pandey to ACB custody for two days and another person Prince Raghuvanshi to judicial custody for 14 days in an alleged bribery cas
The complainant has alleged that the accused persons demanded Rs 90 lakh for the same and he had already paid Rs 35 lakh to Tripathi and Rs 20 lakh to Wazirpur MLA Rajesh Gupta, while the remaining Rs 35 lakh was to be paid after receiving the ticket, the police said.
The BJP has drawn up a list of star campaigners for the polls. Topping the list is Prime Minister Narendra Modi, followed by Union Defence Minister Amit Shah.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Sunday released its second list of 117 candidates for elections to the 250-ward Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) scheduled for December 4.
The Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi has fielded Bobby Kinaar, belonging to the Transgender community as a candidate for the upcoming Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections from the Sultanpuri-A ward.
Haridas Pandey Balmiki, district president of the party's unrecognised workers' forum in Sultanpur Assembly segment, alleged that five-time MLA Jai Kishan was seeking MCD poll tickets for his wife and sons.
After Bharatiya Janata Party leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa came down heavily on Congress for its move to include 1984 riots-accused Jagdish Tytler in its committee for the Delhi municipal polls, Dr Ajoy Kumar said that BJP is trying to divert attention from major issues prevailing in the N