The survey said on Saturday that key to government formation could lie in the hands of ‘others’ who may get 140 seats in a House of 543. ‘Others’ include Samajwadi Party, BSP, AIADMK, Trinamool Congress, Telangana Rashtra Samithi, Biju Janata Dal, YSR... read more

K Chandrasekhar Rao took oath as the Chief Minister of Telangana on Thursday. The oath ceremony was held at Raj Bhavan in Hyderabad. Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) headed by K Chandrasekhar Rao claimed 88 seats out of the total 119 Assembly seats. KCR became the first Chief Minister of Telangana when the state was formed in 2014.read more

Drama unfolds at the Congress headquarters of Madhya Pradesh as the name for the next chief minister is announced. State party chief Kamal Nath will be the next chief minister of the state. The Congress legislature party began its meeting at around 10.30 pm, many hours after Gandhi told reporters early on Thursday that a decision on the party’s three chief ministers would be taken soon. Congress has emerged as single largest party, ousting BJP in Rajasthan and emerged as the single largest party in Madhya Pradesh.read more

The NDA headed by the BJP, he asserted was as strong as in 2014 and would return to power despite “rival ambitions of a multitude of rival friends”. read more

The Hyderabad MP said he has his ‘grave doubts’ about the Congress’ capacity to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. read more

A court in the United Kingdom will decide on Vijay Mallya’s extradition to India today to face charges of financial irregularities running into thousands of crores but the businessman is unlikely to return anytime soon. “My offer (to repay the principal amount) is not bogus,” Mallya said outside Westminster magistrates court in London.

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Telangana assembly elections 2018: AIMIM contested eight seats in the December 7 Assembly elections as against the seven in 2014 polls, and supported the TRS. read more

Exit polls show a close contest between the ruling BJP and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh, with the surveys predicting starkly different results. Some exit polls show an edge for the ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh while others predict a majority for the Congress. Cvoter-Republic TV has given an edge to the Congress in the state where Shivraj Singh Chouhan is seeking a 4th straight term. The survey gives the BJP 90-106 seats; to Congress it gives 110-126 seats and 6-22 seats to others. Madhya Pradesh has 230 seats and the majority mark for a party to win is 116. The Axis My India - India Today poll predicts a range of 102 to 120 seats for the BJP in the state. This survey gives 104 to 122 to the Congress indicating a tight race. ABP News- CSDS has predicted a win for Congress in Madhya Pradesh, giving 94 seats to the BJP, 126 to the Congress and 10 seats to others. However a Times NOW-CNX survey predicts a clear majority for the BJP in Madhya Pradesh with 126 seats. This one says that the Congress will win 89 seats, a marked improvement over its tally in the last election but still trailing the BJP.read more

Polling is underway in 119 Assembly constituencies in Telangana. The results for the Assembly elections will be declared on December 11. AIMIM President Asaduddin Owaisi cast his vote at polling booth no. 317 at Mailardevpally, Shastripuram.read more

Owaisi was responding to Adityanath’s recent remarks at a rally in poll-bound Telangana that Owaisi would have to “run away” from Hyderabad, just like the Nizam, if the BJP came to power in the state. read more

Telangana assembly elections 2018: Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Monday asked voters “to expose” the ruling TRS’s “secret partnership” with BJP and vote them out in the December 7 polls. He called the TRS the BJP’s B team and its ally AIMIM its... read more

While the Congress and NCP brought up the issue of quota for Muslims, AIMIM legislator Imtiyaz Jaleel announced his party will approach the Bombay high court seeking reservation. read more

The Razakars were an armed militia of the Hyderabad Nizamate who tried to brutally put down a revolt by peasants opposed to the Nizam’s decision to not merge with India following Independence. read more

Muslims hold the key to the next government formation in Telangana with 43 of the total 119 constituencies having over 10% electorate from the community. . read more

Addressing a public meeting organised by his party in Nirmal constituency of Telangana on Monday night, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi alleged that A Maheshwar Reddy of Congress called a MIM leader on phone and offered to pay Rs 25 lakh as bribe to stop... read more