Politics

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Madhya Pradesh may be heading for a hung assembly, with five of seven exit polls predicting that both the BJP and the Congress will fall short of majority. According to an aggregate of seven exit polls, the BJP will get 112 seats in the state — short of the halfway mark of 115 in the 230 member ...

The Shiv Sena Thursday hit out at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath over violence in Bulandshahr, saying he is busy renaming cities but has failed to address the basic issues in his state. Soldiers and policemen do not have any religion. Similarly, those in power should only focus on fulfilling their responsibilities, the Sena said in an editorial in ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Punjab minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, reportedly told by the Congress party that he cannot defy or speak against his boss Amarinder Singh, put out a clarification today calling the Punjab Chief Minister a “fatherly figure”. “You don’t want to wash dirty linen in public. He (Captain Amarinder Singh) is a fatherly figure, I love him, I respect ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU Patidar leader Hardik Patel has said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) would become an opposition party in the December 7 elections in Rajasthan where people are keen to “vote out” the party. During his recent visit to Udaipur, the leader from Gujarat also accused the BJP of “betraying” people, especially youths in the name of job creation. ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU The Congress leaders have raised suspicion over the late arrival of EVMs and Voter Verified Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT) machines by more than 48 hours at the district headquarters of Sagar and Khargone, Madhya Pradesh, as well as an hour-long power outage in the capital’s old jail area. While state Home Minister Bhupendra Singh is contesting the ...

A day after cricketer-turned-politician Navjot Singh Sidhu’s remark on Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, a senior Punjab minister Saturday sought his resignation from the state cabinet. The resignation demand came even as Sidhu backtracked on his claim in Hyderabad that he attended the groundbreaking ceremony in Pakistan for the Kartarpur corridor after Congress president Rahul Gandhi asked him to go. “Rahul ...

DAINIK NATION BUREAU “Keep your Ali, Bajrang Bali is enough for us.” This was how Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath responded to a recent video that showed senior Congress leader Kamal Nath asking Muslim leaders to ensure as much as 90 per cent votes from the minority community for his party. While the BJP grabbed the opportunity to declare that ...

Returning the Congress’ “a chaiwala could become prime minister due to Nehru” barb, Prime Minister Narendra Modi Friday dared it to make someone “from outside the family” as its chief for him to believe the late leader created a true democratic system. PM Modi also charged the Gandhis with still not being able to come to terms that a “son ...

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee slammed the Centre on Wednesday for allegedly dragging its feet in clearing a proposal to rename West Bengal to “Bangla”, a proposal unanimously passed by the state assembly in July. Banerjee said the BJP has been changing names of historical places and institutions unilaterally “almost every day” to suit its “interests” but when it ...

Union Parliamentary Affairs Minister and long-time BJP leader Ananth Kumar died at a private hospital in Bengaluru in the early hours of Monday after battling lung cancer for several months. He was 59. The Bangalore South MP, who returned home in October after undergoing treatment in the US and Britain, breathed his last around 2 am with his wife Tejaswini ...