Newly-sworn in Goa chief minister Pramod Sawant has said he will take forward the legacy of his predecessor Manohar Parrikar as he admitted he had a “big responsibility” before him. Parrikar, who was diagnosed with advanced pancreatic cancer in February last year, died on Sunday evening. Sawant was sworn in early Tuesday morning.

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The Congress is extremely divided in Delhi over the alliance and has already wasted a lot of time, said Gopal Rai, convenor of AAP’s Delhi unit. read more

This is Sharad Pawar’s second effort since mid-February when he hosted a dinner for top opposition leaders at his house that brought Rahul Gandhi and Arvind Kejriwal to the same room read more

Aspirants from Aligarh, Saharanpur, Pilibhit, Lalganj, Amethi, Sambhal, Bareilly, Bansgaon, Gonda, Rampur, Unnao, Aonla, among others, met Singh in Lucknow and put forward their claims. read more

The Congress carried out a survey that sought views of around 52,000 party workers in Delhi on whether they supported the party’s alliance with the AAP in Delhi or not. read more

The announcement came after Rai held a meeting with Jakhar and AAP MLAs from the 10 assembly constituencies within the west Delhi Lok Sabha seat. read more

Delhi government has decided to challenge the High Court order setting aside a rule which barred private schools built on public land to hike fees without seeking prior permission, a senior official said Monday. read more

Forty-five-year old lawyer Balbir Singh Jakhar will represent the party from the seat. He is currently the president of the bar association in West Delhi’s Dwarka court. read more

Vijay Goel said that the two parties, in the past, were involved in trading corruption barbs at each other, but are now desperate to join hands to win the Lok Sabha seats in Delhi. read more

The Lok Sabha election was held for the first time on the North East Delhi seat in 2009, a year after it was created following the implementation of the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India. read more

The ongoing talks between the two parties did not make much headway as neither of them was willing to give up the Anandpur Sahib seat. read more

The BJP’s Maheish Girri defeated the Aam Aadmi Party leader Rajmohan Gandhi by more than 190,400 votes to win the seat in the 2014 Lok Sabha election. The AAP’s Atishi Marlena will contest from the seat this year. read more

In 2009, Congress won South Delhi seat after delimitation. And in 2014, BJP leader Ramesh Bidhuri defeated Col Devinder Sehrawat of AAP. BJP had won all seven seats that year in Delhi, which is set for a three-way contest this time with AAP and Congress... read more

As both the parties are adamant on fielding their respective candidates from Sri Anandpur Sahib seat, the possibility of the alliance has taken a back seat.   read more

His comments gave the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), that forms the government in Delhi, ammunition to attack the BJP. Its spokesperson Saurabh Bharadwaj tweeted a video clip of Goel’s event and said that senior BJP leaders have now admitted to corruption in... read more