The Delhi High Court had last month asked the Associated Journals Ltd (AJL), the publisher of National Herald to vacate the premises in the Press Enclave at ITO in the national capital.

Union minister Nitin Gadkari will head a committee which will reach out to social and volunteer organisations while his Cabinet colleague Sushma Swaraj will head a group that will produce literature for the polls, it added.

In a Facebook post, Shah alleged that Congress is making Madhya Pradesh, the "heart of Hindustan", a centre of its "appeasement" policy.  

Addressing a press conference in New Delhi, Smriti Irani, referring to the Sohrabuddin encounter case, said the Congress used the CBI to frame Amit Shah.

In a series of tweets, Shah said the "friendship" between Christian Michel, the alleged middleman in the deal, and Congress' top leadership is "time tested and deep". He also asked what is this ‘Family Balm’ that every middleman wants.

Though he didn’t elaborate, Shah was apparently referring to the 2016 incident in the Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi where controversial slogans were allegedly raised.

Lok Sabha passed the bill which criminalises the practice of instant Triple Talaq with the government rejecting the contention that it was aimed at targeting a particular community.

Zadafia had left the BJP in 2007 complaining against the "autocratic" attitude of the then Chief Minister Narendra Modi. He joined forces with Keshubhai Patel in 2012 and formed Gujarat Parivartan Party which failed to make a mark in the elections.

Lok Sabha elections 2019: He said Chirag Paswan's tweets reflected the party's sentiments and the seat-sharing formula must be timely and respectable.

The court also directed the administration to ensure that there is no breach of law and order.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah on Wednesday categorically said that the ruling NDA will fight the 2019 Lok Sabha elections under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

The election results in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh were definitely not favourable for BJP, but it is not right to link them with the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Amit Shah said.

His remarks come as the BJP suffered a massive jolt in the three key states, while Congress managed to make a stunning entry.

It is for the first time that a state-level interaction between the national president and the booth incharges is being organised. 

Thanking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for setting up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) in 2015, the BJP chief started re-investigation into several cases of 1984 pending for over three decades.

Addressing the concluding session of the two-day workshop of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, he said the party will lose the battle of ideology if they lose 2019 election.

Addressing a press conference after the Supreme Court dismissed the petitions seeking a probe into the deal, he said truth had triumphed and Gandhi's "lies" had no legs to stand on.

The state government at the meeting was represented by Chief Secretary Malay De, Home Secretary Atri Bhattacharya and Director-General of Police Virendra. 

The vote share loss is even bigger for the saffron party since the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, in which it had virtually swept all the three states by winning 62 out of 65 seats, as per the Election Commission data.

Meanwhile, the Calcutta High Court on Friday directed top West Bengal officials to hold meeting with the BJP by Dec 12 and take a decision on granting permission to the rath yatra by Dec 14.