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  Hours before Shah-Thackeray meet, Shiv Sena's Saamana disses BJP's Sampark for Samarthan

  June 06, 2018 9:56 IST

  Questioning the motives of Amit Shah's meeting with NDA allies after consecutive poll losses, Shiv Sena mouthpiece clarified that the party is determined to fight 2019 Lok Sabha polls alone.

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  Sampark for Samarthan: Can BJP chief pacify estranged ally Shiv Sena?

  June 06, 2018 8:19 IST

  The tomorrow's meeting between Shah and Thackeray is being viewed as significant as it comes days after the two bickering allies contested the Palghar bypolls separately.

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  Can SP-BSP alliance seal amicable seat-sharing formula for 2019 polls? Decision at appropriate time, says Akhilesh

  June 05, 2018 13:05 IST

  The former Uttar Pradesh chief minister's remark come amid reports that the Mayawati-led Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) is demanding 40 out of the total 80 seats in the state for the next year general elections. 

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  UP minister blames CM Yogi Adityanath for BJP's bypoll defeat

  June 04, 2018 13:29 IST

  The BJP lost both the Kairana and Noorpur assembly seats in the recent polls.

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  Discontent brewing in Congress over move to give another Rajya Sabha term to PJ Kurien

  June 03, 2018 23:45 IST

  Three Rajya Sabha seats from the state, including the one held by Kurien, the deputy chairman, will fall vacant on July 1.   

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  Citing 'unsatisfactory performance' in Karnataka elections, SR Patil resigns as KPCC working president

  June 03, 2018 16:45 IST

  "I have sent my resignation to Shri Rahul Gandhiji through an email some days back after taking up moral responsibility for the party's unsatisfactory performance in assembly elections," Patil told reporters here today.

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  Election drubbings have hit BJP, admits Naqvi, says 'may look for new allies ahead of 2019 Lok Sabha polls'

  June 03, 2018 16:02 IST

  Asked whether the Bharatiya Janata Party would need the support of allies, especially regional outfits, for the general elections, Naqvi said the BJP was committed to alliance partners right from the tenure of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

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  United opposition a 'backhanded compliment' for PM Modi: Smriti Irani

  June 03, 2018 11:21 IST

  Union Minister of Textiles, Smriti Irani, on Saturday said that opposition parties such as Congress were struggling for survival.

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  'Whatever I have to say, I will say in Nagpur': Pranab Mukherjee on accepting RSS invite

  June 03, 2018 16:11 IST

  The RSS invite to Mukherjee sparked off a controversy, as the Congress leaders expressed unhappiness over his acceptance, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Sangh saw nothing wrong in it.

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  Congress, AAP joining hands against BJP for 2019 Lok Sabha elections? Talks in progress, say sources

  June 02, 2018 14:31 IST

  The speculations about the rumoured alliance got a further boost after Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal recently praised former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Twitter.

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  Day after united opposition’s splendid show in bypolls, Cong and JD-S decide to jointly fight 2019 LS polls

  June 01, 2018 23:14 IST

  Congress General Secretary K. C. Venugopal made the announcement in this regard in the presence of Karnataka chief minister H. D. Kumaraswamy.

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  'Film baaki ba': Tejashwi Yadav rubs it in on Nitish Kumar after bypoll defeat, says CM afraid of PM Modi

  June 01, 2018 13:26 IST

  Tejashwi said Nitish Kumar, whom he addressed as chacha (uncle) in his tweet, should see it for himself what made people vote in favour of the Mahagathbandhan in 2015.

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  Lok Sabha bypoll results: BJP’s strength goes down but party maintains wafer-thin majority in LS

  May 31, 2018 21:12 IST

  While three MPs from Karnataka resigned, the Anantnag seat in Kashmir is lying vacant after the bypoll was deferred indefinitely in May last year, bringing down the majority mark to 270.

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  ‘How can a person dream of becoming PM when his re-election is not guaranteed’: Smriti Irani on Rahul’s wish

  May 29, 2018 22:13 IST

  “I do politics in the area where Rahul Gandhi also does politics. In Amethi, he has lost every Assembly and local election in four years. How can a person not guaranteed to get re-elected in his own constituency have chances of returning to power in the country,” Smriti Irani told media persons in Shillong.

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  Haryana minister Anil Vij compares Rahul Gandhi to Nipah Virus

  May 29, 2018 17:10 IST

  This is not the first time Vij has targetted Rahul Gandhi. In an earlier statement, Vij had said that his election as Congress president would help Prime Minister Narendra Modi in making India “Congress Free.”

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  BJP accuses Karnataka CM Kumaraswamy of deriding Kannadigas

  May 28, 2018 18:02 IST

  Union Minister DV Sadananda Gowda took to twitter asking Kumaraswamy if he would compromise the interests of Kannadigas just to retain power.

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  Arun Jaitley accepts Kumar Vishwas' apology, withdraws defamation case against him

  May 28, 2018 23:36 IST

  In his letter, Vishwas said that the remarks by him and other party leaders against Jaitley were based on the facts shared by Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal.

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  Baijayant Jay Panda quits BJD amid rift with Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik

  May 28, 2018 13:58 IST

  In January this year, Panda was suspended by BJD president and Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik for indulging in “anti-party activities”.

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  At mercy of Congress and not 6.5 cr people of Karnataka: Kumaraswamy

  May 28, 2018 0:03 IST

  Ahead of his Delhi visit to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi and other union ministers, he reiterated that farm loan waiver was his priority as he had promised and he would resign if he failed to fulfill it.   

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  Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao to campaign for 2019 general elections in a luxurious motorhome? Read here

  May 27, 2018 16:09 IST

  The bullet-and-mine-proof is expected to cost a whopping `6.5 to `7 crore with additional features of a motorhome which automatically expands at the rear by one metre at press of a button, the report stated.

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  Dent in 'third-front'? Mayawati says BSP should be ready to fight 2019 polls solo

  May 27, 2018 12:43 IST

  She said the stand of the party while entering into any alliance in any election has been to get a respectable share of the seats to contest. Otherwise, it sees fighting on its own as a better option, she said.

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  BJP hits back at Rahul Gandhi for mock report card of NDA govt, recounts Congress losses since 2014

  May 27, 2018 11:33 IST

  In response to Rahul Gandhi's mock report card of NDA govt, BJP's official Twitter handle today shared an animated video, recounting Congress' failures in past four years. 

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  Nobody should dream to become BSP president for over two decades, Mayawati tells party workers

  May 26, 2018 23:03 IST

  The BSP chief also announced changes in the party constitution, which bar her brother from continuing as its vice president while letting her remain the national president till she is too old for that responsibility.

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  Congress believes in politics of lies, BJP in politics of performance: Amit Shah on 4 years of Modi govt

  May 26, 2018 14:08 IST

  Addressing a press conference in New Delhi as part of 4-year anniversary celebrations of the Modi government, Amit Shah said that politics of performance was at the core of BJP's policies

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  Aspirational India will reject 'anarchist' formation of disparate political parties to fight BJP: Arun Jaitley

  May 26, 2018 13:08 IST

  Jaitley said the political agenda for the debate this year appropriately will be Prime Minister Narendra Modi versus an "anarchist combination" of such parties.

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  PM Narendra Modi on his govt's 4th anniversary: For us, it is always India first

  May 26, 2018 11:09 IST

  "On this day in 2014, we began our journey of working towards India’s transformation. Over the last four years, development has become a vibrant mass movement, with every citizen feeling involved in India's growth trajectory. 125 crore Indians are taking India to great heights!," he tweeted on Saturday.

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  EXCLUSIVE: 48 months of Modi govt have eclipsed Congress' 48-year regime, says Adityanath

  May 26, 2018 11:53 IST

  In an exclusive interview with India TV on the occasion of 4th year anniversary of the Modi government, UP CM Yogi Adityanath said the amount of work done during Modi government's 48-month rule is way beyond what Congress could do in the past 48 years when it ruled the country.

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  4 Years of Modi Govt LIVE: Good politics means development and good governance for us, says PM

  May 26, 2018 19:24 IST

  A war of words has erupted between the ruling BJP and the Congress-led opposition over the achievements of the Narendra Modi government.