Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Union ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Pratap Sarangi on Saturday condoled the death of Rajya Sabha MP and former Samajwadi Party leader Amar Singh. "Deeply saddened to learn about the passing away of veteran leader & Rajya Sabha MP #AmarSingh. My thoughts & prayers are with the bereaved family. May his soul rest in peace," Patnaik tweeted. Union Petroleum and Steel Minister Dharmendra Pradhan described Singh as a seasoned politician. "Saddened to learn about the passing away of seasoned politician and Rajya Sabha MP, Shri Amar Singh ji. My deepest condolences to his family and friends in their hour of grief. May God grant eternal peace to the departed soul. Om Shanti!," Pradhan tweeted. Union Minister of State for MSME, Pratap Sarangi, said Singh was a mass leader loved by people. "Grieved to learn the passing away of Shri Amar Singh ji, a veteran former Parliamentarian and Rajya Sabha MP. He was a mass leader who earned ..
Union minister Nitin Gadkari said in a tweet that he felt very sad to hear the news of the demise of Amar Singh. "May his soul rest in peace," he said
Killing of gangster gives the Opposition chance to breach the pan-Hindu vote bank the BJP constructed before 2014
Leaders from several opposition parties have alleged that the Uttar Pradesh government is hiding "a deep secret" with regard to the killing of Kanpur encounter main accused Vikas Dubey
Mayawati on Saturday said the Congress ruled the country for most of the years after independence but failed to provide jobs to people near their home, which forced them to migrate
The opposition demanded that the Centre "consult state governments while allowing international/domestic flights".
So far, 17 parties have agreed to take part in the meeting via video-conferencing, but the SP and the BSP are yet to confirm their attendance.
Chhotelal Diwakar (50) and his son Sunil Kumar (28) were shot dead due to a dispute over the construction of a road under the rural employment generation scheme MGNREGS in the village
Former UP Chief Minister and Samajwadi Party Chief Akhilesh Yadav spoke about the challenges before the state government and measures taken so far
Earlier, he was admitted to the hospital on Wednesday and discharged on Saturday
All the major opposition parties - the Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party, and Congress - have upped the ante against the Adityanath dispensation
Hitting out at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Yadav said that if BJP can win 300 seats by spreading lies, then Samajwadi Party will win 351 seats by working honestly
These posters appeared right next to the hoardings, put up by the Lucknow district administration outside the UP BJP office in the Hazratganj area of the city showing anti-CAA protesters
Just recently Shivpal said he was ready for an alliance with the Akhilesh-led SP and that there was no dispute in the family
The BJP, for the first time, will be contesting these elections on party lines
Although the Assembly poll in UP is two years away, the party's strong pitch has earned some resonance
The 21 deaths apparently took place during the violence during the anti-CAA on around December 20 last year
A more likely outcome than the transformation of traditional Muslim parties may be the emergence of a new political leadership - distinguished by its language of rights based on the Constitution
As Uttar Pradesh went through a deep turmoil, following the agitation against the CAA and the crackdown on dissenters, SP and BSP strangely remained muted
The BJP said the Congress-led UPA initiated the NPR in 2010, along with the Census 2011 exercise, and that it had also approved construction of detention centres