Politics Today

The Congress has reportedly sealed deal with Akhilesh Yadav’s Samjawadi Party and Mayawati’s Bahujan Samaj Party for seat sharing in Uttar Pradesh for the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Read More

BJP president Amit Shah slammed the opposition parties for their “vote-bank politics” over Assam’s National Register of Citizens and dared them to make their stand clear on “illegal Bangladeshis” in the country. Read More

The chief minister of West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee, expressed serious concern over the fact that over 40 lakh people, who applied for their names to be included in the citizens’ database, were left out of the list. Read More

The release of the final draft of Assam’s NRC has got the opposition in war mode against the BJP-led Modi government at the Centre. The draft, released on July 30, saw 40 lakh people, who applied for their names to be included in the list, left out of the citizens’ database. Read More

The BJP government in Assam released the final draft of the National Register of Citizens (NRC). Around 2.89 crore people out of the state’s 3.29 who applied found themselves on the list. This means, around 40 lakh people in the state have ceased to be Indian citizens. Read More

Andhra Pradesh CM Chandrababu Naidu, will get the opportunity to meet PM Narendra Modi for the first time since Naidu pulled his party, out from the NDA . He is expected to strongly raise the "special status" demand for his state. Read More

There have been speculations for a while among BJP politicians in Delhi that the party is rapidly losing support among tribals in poll-bound MP. When party chief Amit Shah chose to hold the meeting of the state poll panel in the tribal heartland of Jabalpur, it almost confirmed the case. Read More

The decision to appoint the chief of the BJP's Rajasthan unit has been deferred as the differences between the party's president, Amit Shah, and the Rajasthan chief minister, Vasundhara Raje, remained unresolved. Sources say Raje and Shah are adamant over their picks. Read More

Reacting to Congress president Rahul Gandhi's allegation that the Narendra Modi government had "waived off bank loans of 15 corporate houses", finance minister Arun Jaitley took to social media to launch a counterattack against the opposition leader. Read More

Shatrughan Sinha, veteran BJP MP from Patna Sahib, triggered speculations about his future political move in Patna when he attended an iftar party hosted by Tejashwi Yadav. He said he will be contesting the (future) elections on either a Congress ticket or an RJD ticket. Read More