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Collapse of SP-BSP alliance signals end of Mandal politics; Opposition must reimagine its approach to counter BJP

In numerous interviews before the Lok Sabha elections, Amit Shah had pointed out that BJP’s fortunes in Uttar Pradesh won’t take a dip despite the ‘caste-and-community-based’ SP-BSP alliance because voters have become more empowered and have developed an agency on their own. And he wasn't wrong.

SP-BSP gathbandhan on ventilator due to development work of BJP govt at Centre, state, says UP deputy CM Dinesh Sharma

With fissures apparently appearing in the alliance of Samajwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party, Uttar Pradesh deputy chief minister Dinesh Sharma Monday said the 'gathbandhan' (of SP-BSP) is today "taking its last breath, and is on ventilator"

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Priyanka Gandhi's entry to active politics and that too as general secretary of the Uttar Pradesh (East) adds to the difficulties of Modi not just in the short term, but in the long term as well

Lok Sabha Election 2019: BJP mulls fielding more Muslims in Bengal to make inroads into Mamata Banerjee’s solid support base

BJP's aim to make a shift in its political strategy in Bengal after they harvested a good number of seats in the local body election early this year.

Rebel BJP MP says political parties use OBCs, poor as 'vote bank', India needs to be rid of 'politics of hypocrisy'

Rebel BJP leader Raj Kumar Saini said different political parties promised to work for their welfare before elections, but yielded no results once voted to power.

Amit Shah slams Congress for 'appeasement politics' in Karnataka, calls Siddaramaiah govt 'most corrupt' in nation

Accusing Karnataka's Siddaramaiah government of being the "most corrupt" in the country and pursuing "appeasement politics", BJP president Amit Shah asserted the countdown for its exit has begun

In poll-bound Tripura, Amit Shah-led BJP may have displaced Congress as main contender against CPM

The coming Assembly election in Tripura is likely to witness a fight between the CPM-led Left Front and the BJP in the state. The state had in the past witnessed an electoral battle between the CPM and the Congress.

Assam govt slams Mamata Banerjee's speech on NRC, calls it derogatory and insulting to constitution

Slamming West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee for her statement on the update of National Register of Citizens (NRC), the Assam government on Thursday said her words were "derogatory, insulting to Assamese and against the constitution as well as the spirit of Supreme Court".

Gujarat deputy CM Nitin Patel calls Hardik Patel an 'agent of Congress,' urges him to join party

Gujarat deputy chief minister and BJP leader Nitin Patel Monday dubbed quota spearhead Hardik Patel as an "agent of the Congress", even as the Opposition said the comments were an indication of the ruling party "losing its ground" in the poll-bound state

Violence in Mamata's Bengal: What Rajnath Singh will have to deal with in the tinder box that is Malda

Kaliachak, according to the 2011 Census, has a population of a little over 3 lakh, 89 percent of whom are Muslims.