The dissident camp claims support from around 20 MPs and says cooperation with the Centre is needed for development, while the TMC leadership questions the legality of its parliamentary demands.
A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Soumen Sen and Justice Syam Kumar V. M. granted the state time to file an affidavit and posted the matter for consideration after two weeks.
Union Commerce and Industry Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's continuous tenure of over 4,400 days is a significant achievement in democratic history.
The Odisha unit of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday alleged that the judicial inquiry report into the 2008 murder of Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati was willfully suppressed and that key files related to the case went missing during the final days of the previous Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government.
The next Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh are more than two years away. Yet political activity in the state is already beginning to take on an unmistakably electoral character.
The leader of opposition and Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP)candidate from Bhabanipur Suvendu Adhikari said that chief minister Mamata Banerjee who is contesting on A TMC ticket in the same assembly constituency will lose by at least 30,000 votes.
A polling agent was allegedly attacked with iron rods in Nadia before voting began, leaving him with serious head injuries. He was rescued by police and hospitalised, even as early turnout crossed 18% across key districts.
Veteran actor and BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty cast his vote at the Kashipur-Belgacchia constituency on Wednesday morning.
West Bengal LoP Suvendu Adhikari on Wednesday inspected polling stations in Bhabanipur assembly seat, and also offered prayers at the Hanuman temple in the region.
The defection of seven MPs from the Aam Aadmi Party to the Bharatiya Janata Party is being read as a political crisis within AAP.
