Dismissing the incident as a mere happenstance, Karnataka Congress chief Dinesh Gundu Rao said that there was no intention if misbehaving with the woman.

"I shall definitely answer this guy @dineshgrao's queries, before which could he please reveal himself as to who he is along with his achievements? I only know him as a guy who ran behind a Muslim lady," the BJP leader said on social media.

"When BJP government was formed, within one year Modi ji delivered on his promise on One rank one pension (OROP). Modi ji gave OROP to our jawans, Congress gave 'only Rahul only Priyanka'," he said.

Tejashwi also emphasised that the issue of who will be the prime minister can be settled after the 2019 polls by grand alliance members collectively.

"The best thing that happened to me as a politician & human being was the abuse I got from BJP & RSS, it has been the biggest gift they could give me," Gandhi said at an interactive session at 'The Odisha Dialogue' in Bhubaneswar.

The Congress will also fight the coming Lok Sabha polls with “full strength”, Gandhi said during his visit to Amethi on Thursday.

Gandhi was addressing a public meeting in Amethi before returning to Delhi at the end of his two-day visit to his Lok Sabha constituency.

NCP president Sharad Pawar will also be present at the event.

Priyanka Gandhi will take over as AICC general secretary for UP East in the first week of February.

The party has also appointed Jyotiraditya Scindia as AICC general secretary for UP West.

According to media reports, Congress is seeking to contest 16 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar and has conveyed to the RJD that it would not settle for less than 12 seats.

Amethi and Rae Bareli are the two Lok Sabha seats left out for the Congress by the BSP-SP alliance in the state. Lok Sabha elections 2019 is scheduled to take place in the months of April-May.

The SP chief said that he had “immense respect” for Congress President Rahul Gandhi and added that he would be happy if the next prime minister was from his home state.

Malda district BJP president Sanjit Mishra said Shah will land at Bagdogra airport from where he will take a helicopter to Malda. He would reach Narayanpur, where a temporary helipad has been constructed for landing of his helicopter.

The incident that has given an embarrassing twist to the party’s bid to keep its flock together.

According to PTI, Anand Singh and J N Ganesh had a heated argument and came to blows late last night at the resort where the party MLAs are herded together.  

"There is the least possibility of a pre-poll alliance with any party for the assembly elections in the state. The BJP will emerge (as) the largest party after the elections and will give a stable government to the people with some friends," Madhav told reporters here.

Jena was expelled from the primary membership of the Congress for anti-party activities by the Odisha unit of the party, along with former Koraput MLA Krushna Chandra Sagaria.

Chouhan, who lost power in the recent Assembly elections, was speaking at 'Yuva Vijay Sankalp Maharally' of Delhi BJP's Yuva Morcha.  

Balwadi BJP leader Manoj Thackeray was found dead in a field in Warla police station limits on Sunday morning, less than a week after Mandsaur Municipal Corporation President Prahlad Bandhwar was shot dead.