In a blow to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, two Trinamool Congress MLAs joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday. Another MLA belonging to CPM also joined the saffron party today. Not just this, over 50 councilors too joined the BJP in New Delhi.
The outgoing Chief Minister along with his wife Nara Bhuvaneswari and son Nara Lokesh participated in 97th birth anniversary celebrations of his father-in-law and party founder N.T. Rama Rao at the TDP office in Guntur.
Randeep Singh Surjewala also met Rahul Gandhi at the latter's residence. Gehlot arrived after Pilot had left. Details of their discussions were not immediately known.
"Yes, they (BJP) keep calling and saying I will also get what is being offered to others. They told me that I will get a ministerial birth and Rs. 50-60 crore. It is false speculation that legislators are breaking away," ANI quoted BSP MLA Ramabai as saying.
After suffering reverses in the Lok Sabha battle, West Bengal's ruling Trinamool Congress recently suspended its MLA and BJP leader Mukul Roy's son Shubhrangshu Roy for six years alleging that he was "demeaning the party".
Taking responsibility for the defeat, Gandhi on Saturday offered to resign as party president at a meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC), the highest decision-making body of the party, but it was "unanimously rejected".
Stunned by the rout of his Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar and Jharkhand in the Lok Sabha election, Lalu Prasad gave up lunch for two days after the declaration of poll results on May 23.
This is the first time that the RJD failed to win a single seat in Lok Sabha polls in Bihar. In 2014, RJD had won 4 seats despite the Modi wave.
Atanasio Monserrate has won the Panaji Assembly bypoll election, with BJP losing Manohar Parrikar's seat.
State Congress chief Pritam Singh and Ranikhet MLA Karan Mehra alleged in a joint press conference here that Rawat has purchased the 16 bigha land in Suryadhar area on Sahastradhara Road here in the name of his wife and associate Sanjay Gupta's wife.
Makkal Needhi Maiam (MNM) founder Kamal Haasan had stoked a controversy on Sunday by saying "free India's first extremist was a Hindu", referring to Nathuram Godse who killed Mahatma Gandhi.
"I don't have any regrets. I have not done anything for which I will have to apologise," Sharma told a press conference at the BJP office here.
Addressing a rally ahead of the fourth and last phase of Lok Sabha polls in Madhya Pradesh,Gandhi also said Modi should stop talking about "clouds and mangoes" and tell people about issues which matter.
Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah Tuesday termed the growing clamour within his party to make him chief minister once again as an expression of supporters' "affection", but said he still stands by his word about not contesting the next assembly polls.
Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) President Rajbhar, who claims to have walked out of the Adityanath government miffed over denial of expected numbers of tickets, has already fielded 39 candidates for seats in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh phases.
PM Modi was in Ballia to seek support for BJP and NDA ally candidates. Ballia will go to polls in the seventh and last phase on Sunday.
Sam Pitroda had sparked a controversy by his 'hua-toh-hua’ statement on 1984 anti-Sikh riots. Pitroda, a close aide of Rahul Gandhi and Overseas Congress' head made the remark in response to a question on the riots by a newsman in Dharamshala in Himachal Pradesh.
“Mamata didi, I am chanting Jai Shri Ram here and leaving for Kolkata, arrest me if you have guts,” said Amit Shah.
"Congress had a problem saying 'Bharat Mata ki Jai', but was happy abusing him," said PM Narendra Modi.
Amit Shah's rally was scheduled for Monday in Jadhavpur, which goes to the polls on May 19 in the last phase, but the permission for it was denied at the last minute by the state administration.
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