The Latest Breaking News from Bharatiya Janata Party

NEW DELHI: Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla on Tuesday initiated defamation proceedings against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Naresh Balyan for associating his name with accused Aaftab Poonawala in the grisly Shraddha murder case.

In Gujarat’s Naroda constituency, a TV journalist from Delhi tutors BJP candidate Payal Kukrani on how to dodge questions about her father by sticking to the development plank and highlighting her medical education.

NEW DELHI: With increasing attacks by the governing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, the Congress chose his 133rd birth anniversary on Monday to defend him and “expose every lie” being spread about him, particularly over his Kashmir policy.

After placing India under an authoritarian Emergency regime in 1975, Indira Gandhi’s Congress threw an estimated 1.4 lakh people in jail. Dileep Singh, then in his early 30s, was one of them. He was imprisoned for 19 months.

PATNA: Congress is set to launch a state-wide padayatra in Bihar from December 28 on the lines of 'Bharat Jodo Yatra', senior party leader Jairam Ramesh said in Patna on Sunday.

MANGALURU: The National Investigation Agency (NIA) conducted a search operation and arrested the 15th accused in the BJP worker Praveen Nettaru murder case.

LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party candidate for the Mainpuri Lok Sabha bypolls Dimple Yadav is likely to file her nomination papers on Monday, a senior party leader said. The 44-year-old wife of SP chief Akhilesh Yadav will file her nomination at the Mainpuri collectorate on Monday afternoon, Alok Shakya, district president of…

HYDERABAD: Telangana Congress former minister Ponnnala lakshmaiah on Saturday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi has visited the state on eight occasions to participate in inauguration of various projects and address public meetings but has never sanctioned any significant project.

LUCKNOW: Bahujan Samaj Party’s decision to not contest the upcoming bypolls in Mainpuri, Khatauli and Rampur has raised eyebrows in the political circles. More so, since the party had contested the Azamgarh parliamentary bypoll, breaking away from its tradition of not contesting bypolls.