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After remaining in the denial mode for 14 months, former Bollywood actress Urmila Matondkar will finally join the Shiv Sena on Tuesday, a senior aide to Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray said here on Monday. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/33vkisV

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will free Hyderabad from the "Nawab, Nizam culture" and create a "mini-India" here. He predicted this time Hyderabad will elect a BJP Mayor in the city's civic polls. The top BJP leader also asserted that the people of Telangana are angry and upset with the ruling TRS in Telangana and Owaisi's "alliance". Polls for GHMC will be held on December 1 and counting of votes will be taken up on December 4.  from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/37ftX81

The Karnataka Cabinet expansion may take some more time as the higher commands are yet to hold talks regarding the reshuffling and expansion of the Cabinet, Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa said on Sunday. While he was leaving for Chitradurga from the authorised residence 'Cauvery' to participate in various programs in Chitradurga and Shimoga district Chief Minister Yediyurappa said, "We have to wait (for cabinet expansion)." from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2KHIK3y

Rashtriya Janata Dal's jailed president Lalu Prasad Yadav has been booked for "offering ministerial berth" on telephone to BJP MLA Lalan Paswan in a horse-trading bid. The purported call from prasad, who is at Ranchi, serving sentences in a number of fodder scam cases, to Pirpainti MLA Lalan Paswan is said to have been made on Tuesday while the latter was having a meeting with veteran BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3653Jpf

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday dared the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to arrest her. Calling the saffron party a "garbage of lies" and "biggest curse of the nation", Banerjee asserted she will ensure TMC victory in the upcoming elections even from the jail. Election to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly is due in April-May. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3m4wJCZ

The third meeting of Central Election Authority committee of Congress party headed by senior Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry took place on Tuesday at the AICC headquarters in New Delhi. The meeting was called to take stock of the preparation as far as finalising the voter list for the AICC organisational elections.  from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3kY3osF

The cracks within the Congress appear to be widening by the day with leaders opposing each other for the party's dismal show in a series of elections. A day after senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad, who has openly voiced his dissent over the way party is functioning, Haryana MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi on Monday slammed him.  from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/394wBA1

Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad on Sunday rejected any rebellion in the grand-old party even as several voices in the past few days have hinted so. Azad said that he didn't have any issue against the high command of the party. "I am giving a clean chit to Gandhis due to COVID pandemic as they can't do much right now. There is no change in our demands. They have agreed to most of our demands. Our leadership should hold elections if they want to become a national altenative and revive the party," Azad told news agency ANI . from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2IP0OZd

After pocketing a key state, the Bharatiya Janata Party now has its eyes set on the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. BJP president JP Nadda will embark on a 120-day nationwide tour to tone up the party's formidable organisational machinery as the saffron dispensation looks to focus on regions where it did not fare well in the last general election. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2UVT3ml

Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia) president Shivpal Yadav on Thursday said it would be his "first priority" to have an alliance with the Samajwadi Party to defeat the BJP in the UP assembly election in 2022. The estranged uncle of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav, who launched a separate political outfit after quitting the SP, said his party would contest the assembly election on its own symbol. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3pGO7QB

Firmly fixing its sights on West Bengal after victory in Bihar, the BJP in Bengal on Wednesday said Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party national president J P Nadda will visit the state every month till the end of assembly elections. Elections to the 294-member West Bengal Assembly are due in April-May next year. The two senior BJP leaders will visit the state separately every month to take stock of the party organisation ahead of the elections, state BJP president Dilip Ghosh said. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/32XLD6R

Slamming Congress party colleague Kapil Sibal over his Bihar poll debacle introspection remark, Lok Sabha leader Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Wednesday said those unhappy with the party's functioning are free to leave instead of embarrassing it in public. Chowdhury stung Sibal for "giving sermons from AC rooms" and said disgruntled members may join other parties or float their own outfits. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2HfUhWD

A meeting of the Congress' Special Committee will be held today amid the voices of discontent emerging within the party post a dismal performance in the Bihar assembly election and other bypolls. According to news agency ANI , the meeting will take place at 5 pm through video conferencing but the agenda is not clear. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/38JVnFo

The inflighting withing the Congress party has again come to the fore after Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot slammed Kapil Sibal for his 'introspection call' and publicly taking down on party leadership after its defeat in recently concluded Bihar assembly election. Taking to social media, Gehlot, in a series of tweets, said that there was "no need" for Sibal to talk about Congress' internal issues in the media as it has "hurt the sentiments of party workers".   from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/36VkbYD

Lok Janshakti Party chief Chirag Paswan on Monday congratulated Nitish Kumar for becoming Bihar Chief Minister again and sent him the party's manifesto which he released ahead of assembly polls. Paswan took to his Twitter handle to send his wishes and LJP's vision document - Bihar 1st Bihari 1st. He also taunted Kumar and congratulated the BJP on "making" him the Chief Minister. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/35CE7jv

"Politics is the art of the possible", German statesman Otto Von Bismarck once famously said. And who understands it better than Nitish Kumar, the modern-day craftsman of realpolitik, who has survived many a headwind to secure a fourth straight term as the Bihar chief minister despite his party finishing a poor third in the 243-member state assembly. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/36GVlvm

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati has appointed Bhim Rajbhar as the new state president in Uttar Pradesh, replacing Munkad Ali. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/38HX0mY

Tarkishore Prasad elected as the leader of the BJP legislature party in Bihar, informed Sushil Kumar Modi on Sunday. The decision was taken during the party's meeting, in which Modi suggested that a youth leader should be made the leader of the BJP legislature party in the state. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3pu7lJd

A joint meeting of the NDA legislature party will be held in Patna today wherein Nitish Kumar will be elected as its leader. The decision was taken at an "informal" meeting of leaders of the four constituents in Bihar - the JDU, BJP, HAM and Vikassheel Insaan Party (VIP) at the residence of Kumar.  from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3pouSuW

The BJP on Friday announced its new team of state in-charges, with party vice-president Radha Mohan Singh appointed in-charge of politically crucial Uttar Pradesh. Kailash Vijayvargiya will continue to be the in-charge of West Bengal and he will be assisted by BJP national secretary Arvind Menon and party national IT cell head Amit Malviya. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3eXdf0n

Weeks after resigning from the Mehbooba Mufti's Peoples Democratic Party, all three leaders joined the Congress party on Monday. Ved Mahajan, Hussain Ali Waffa, and TS Bajwa had resigned from the party after the PDP chief's refusal to raise tricolour. These leaders were with the PDP since the days of Mehbooba's father, late Mufti Muhammad Sayeed.  from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3eGb80P

Bharatiya Janata Party's West Bengal unit president Dilip Ghosh said on Sunday that his party would "restore democracy" in the state if voted to power, warning TMC cadres to mend their ways or they will have to either visit hospital or crematorium. Addressing a rally in Haldia town in the East Midnapore district, Dilip Ghosh said the Centre will ensure free and fair assembly elections in the state, likely to be held in April-May next year. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3pa9XM9

Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Sunday reiterated his claims that the ruling BJP will change its Chief Minister in Karnataka after the Bihar assembly poll results are out on November 10. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3kc9Fk0

Actor-turned-politician Kamal Haasan on Thursday said he would be contesting in the 2021 assembly polls in Tamil Nadu and also seeking the support of fellow actor Rajinikanth. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/3eqIXDc

Amid ongoing Bihar Assembly elections, Union Minister Amit Shah has shifted his focus on Mission Bengal. The Bhartiya Janta Party leader on Wednesday announced his two-day visit to West Bengal where the assembly polls are due next year. He will take stock of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s organizational preparedness for the 2021 state assembly election and meet BJP workers in Bankura. from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/2JEUaVv

Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party Lohia (PSPL) president, Shivpal Singh Yadav, has said that the BJP had invited him to join the party when he fell out with his nephew and Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav.  from IndiaTV Politics: Google News Feed https://ift.tt/34Q116B