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Churn in the Jat community: Farmers' stir may upset the BJP apple cart

With just a year to go for the UP elections, the wave of sympathy for the RLD could play spoiler for the BJP in western UP, which accounts for about a 4th of the Assembly constituencies in the state

TMC calls Trivedi ungrateful after he quits RS seat, BJP welcomes him

The TMC on Friday called party leader Dinesh Trivedi "ungrateful" after he resigned from his Rajya Sabha seat, while the BJP, jubilant over his decision, invited him to join its camp

The foreign hand, again

Conspiratorial thinking leads to tyranny. It means you imagine connections between disparate groups of dissenters, and thereby elevate in your mind their danger to the state

Party was unaware if Trivedi had issues, his resignation not a setback: TMC

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP said he is unable to bear various incidents that are happening in West Bengal

In its battle with govt, Twitter should not surrender its principles easily

The government is pressing Twitter Inc. to shut down accounts which recently used a hashtag that - inaccurately and unfairly - accused India's prime minister of committing a "farmer genocide"

Development only possible when Mamata leaves, lotus blooms in WB: JP Nadda

Development in West Bengal is only possible when Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee leaves and the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 'kamal' (lotus) blooms, said BJP national President JP Nadda on Wednesday

Congress misleading farmers for political gains, says Anurag Thakur

Union Minister of State Anurag Thakur said the party has been misleading the farmers for its political gains by claiming that the agricultural produce market committee mandis will be scrapped

Won't allow BJP to turn Bengal into crematorium, says Mamata Banerjee

Ahead of the upcoming Legislative Assembly elections in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday urged the people of the state to show the door to Bharatiya Janta party

Cops halt BJP's Parivartan Yatra in Bengal's Murshidabad for 'route breach'

BJP's 'Parivartan Yatra' was temporarily stopped from moving ahead in West Bengal's Murshidabad district as "members of the saffron camp, took a route that had a few sensitive pockets"

Sanjay Raut responds to Shah's accusation, says 'closed room' benefited BJP

Sanjay Raut responded to Amit Shah's attack on Uddhav Thackeray about promises made in a 'closed room', saying that the same closed room has benefited the BJP and Prime Minister Narendra Modi as well

Mamata govt not implementing central schemes, says PM Narendra Modi

In Assam, he says conspiracy hatched to defame Indian tea

U'khand flood: Was against power projects on Himalayas, says Uma Bharti

Uma Bharti said that when she was a minister she had opposed the idea of having any power projects on the Himalayan mountain range in the state

How farm protests may change political equations and hurt BJP in key states

The longer the protests persist, the more challenges the BJP will face in Haryana and UP, besides perhaps also in other electorally crucial cow-belt states like Bihar, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan

BJD criticises centre for lower allocation of Rail funds, BJP trashes claim

BJP leaders asserted that Narendra Modi has all along given priority to the state and provided sufficient money

Peaceful 'satyagraha' of farmers in national interest, says Rahul Gandhi

Ahead of the nationwide 'chakka jam' called by the farmer unions protesting the Centre's new agri laws, Congress leader Gandhi said the peaceful 'satyagraha' of the 'annadatas' is in national interest

Security tightened in Delhi in wake of 'chakka jam' call by farmer unions

Security across the national capital has been tightened with deployment of extra forces, putting up multi-layered barricades and barbed wires on the roads ahead of the 'chakka jam' by farmer unions

Explained: How govt-Twitter fracas put IT laws, content policies in focus

Business Standard explains who can request the takedown of posts on Twitter, how they can do so, and what process the microblogging site follows before deciding to accede to the request or not

Lack of industry in Nandigram may return to haunt Mamata Banerjee

Nandigram, 126 km south of Kolkata, is Banerjee's once trusted lieutenant turned biggest challenger Suvendu Adhikari's bastion

Best of BS Opinion: A BJP Budget, a driver of economic revival, and more

Here's a selection of Business Standard opinion pieces for the day

Shekhar Gupta: Finally, a BJP Budget

The ones so far were all Congress+ to Congress+++