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The linguistically diverse southern Indian states have proven to be a barrier in making India's ruling BJP an outfit with a national footprint. While the BJP-led alliance managed to win thumping parliamentary majorities in federal elections in 2014 and 2019, the party's vote share has been below its national ...

Union Minister Narendra Singh Tomar hit out at the Congress during the Madhya Pradesh bypoll campaign claiming a bridge whose foundation stone was laid in the 1980s by then prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was still incomplete but the BJP would get it commissioned soon. He was speaking in Ambah, ...

“Lootne ki chhoot.” Permission to loot. Farmers’ leader Amra Ram was pronouncing his verdict on the three farm Bills passed by Parliament in September. As the Farmers’ Produce Trade and Commerce (Promotion and Facilitation) Bill, the Farmers (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement on Price Assurance and Farm Services Bill and ...

A frenzy of protests over a troika of contentious central farm laws and break-up of the Shiromani Akali Dal-BJP alliance has dramatically reshaped Punjab’s political landscape. Chief minister Captain Amarinder Singh lost no time to seize on a potentially game-changing developments to raise his stock, and that of his ...

Madhya Pradesh Congress chief Kamal Nath on Wednesday expressed confidence that his party will regain power in the state after the byelections to 28 Assembly seats. The former chief minister was addressing a poll rally in Sitamau in Suvasara assembly constituency in Mandsaur district. "They (BJP) have toyed with ...

Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Tuesday accused the opposition parties of taking up "imaginary issues to create a false fear" among farmers and trying to "mislead" them over the new farm reform laws. The irony is that while the common farmers are satisfied and have ...

NEW DELHI/CHANDIGARH: Amid protests against the new farm laws, especially in Punjab and Haryana, Congress MP from Kerala T N Prathapan moved the Supreme Court on Monday seeking to declare the Farmers’ (Empowerment and Protection) Agreement of Price Assurance and Farm Services Act, 2020, and related notifications as unconstitutional ...

Interim Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Monday urged states under her party’s rule to enact legislation to bypass the farm laws recently passed by Parliament on a day when her party’s MP, T N Prathapan, moved the Supreme Court challenging the constitutional validity of those laws. ...

NEW DELHI/LUCKNOW/CHENNAI: Stepping up pressure, the Congress along with other opposition parties held demonstrations against the new farm laws in several states on Monday, with some protesters torching a tractor at the India Gate in the heart of Lutyens' Delhi. The Congress invoked Bhagat Singh, whose birth anniversary was ...

File photo of farmers shouting slogans as they block a national highway during a protest against agriculture-related bills brought by the central government. These are the top stories we are covering this evening: Kerala Cong MP Moves SC Against Newly Enacted Farm Law; senior MP Cop relieved of duties ...