Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party chief BY Vijayendra on Wednesday attacked the Karnataka government for slamming the Union Budget and said that instead of "politicising" the budget, Chief Minister Siddaramaiah should convince the central government and bring more money to Karnataka.
Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP Sonia Gandhi, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, party General Secretary KC Venugopal, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav, TMC MP Dola Sen were seen participating in the protest.
Earlier, some leaders including Parminder Singh Dhindsa, Bibi Jagir Kaur, among others, launched a revolt against party chief Sukhbir Singh Badal, demanding change in the leadership after the party's severe drubbing in the recent Lok Sabha elections.
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav criticised the Union Budget presented by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman saying that the budget is a way to retain power as it mentioned a special project for Bihar and Andhra Pradesh.
Shivsena UBT leader Anand Dubey on Sunday criticized Union Home Minister Amit Shah for "Aurangzeb fan club" remarks on party chief and said that Uddhav Thackeray becomes Aurangzeb if he stands against the BJP but becomes a magician if Thackeray support the BJP-led Centre.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister and National Congress Party Chief, Ajit Pawar on Sunday announced that his party will fight the local body elections in the state independently.
At the Trinamool Congress's (TMC) Dharamtala rally in Kolkata, Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav and TMC General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee delivered strong criticisms of the BJP government, accusing it of using underhanded tactics to stay in power and predicting its imminent downfall
Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav left from his residence in Lucknow on Sunday to join the Trinamool Dharmatala Rally, which will be held later in Kolkata on Sunday.
West Bengal Bharatiya Janata Party Chief Sukanta Majumdar on Saturday came out in support of Uttar Pradesh government's directive for food shops on the Kanwar Yatra route to display their owners' names, saying that a similar notifications were issued during the Mulayam Singh Yadav and Akhile
Indian National Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge offered condolences on the demise of Nguyen Phu Trong, general secretary of Vietnam's ruling Communist Party, on Friday.
After Samajwadi Party chief and MP Akhilesh Yadav's "Monsoon Offer" announcement, Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya called it "Mungerilal ke haseen sapne" (a 1989 TV show on a daydreamer Mungerilal).
Targeting Samajwadi party chief Akhilesh Yadav following his remarks amid row over displaying owners' names on Kanwar route, former Congress leader Acharya Pramod Krishnam said that the opposition leaders want to create divisions.