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New Delhi, Feb 03: Prime Minister Narendra Modi is facing his first state election defeat since taking charge last year, opinion polls show, a result that would dent his chances of consolidating power needed to speed up an economic recovery. The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has ordered scores of its top national and state leaders to campaign for this weekend's high-profile election to the Delhi

New Delhi, Feb 3: Coming down hard on AAP, Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley today said the party was caught "red-handed" in receiving funds through "round-tripping" from companies which did not have any business and accused it of adopting "diversionary tactics" to deflect attention. Jaitley called the Rs 2 crore donation through cheques of Rs.50 lakh each by four companies to AAP a clear case

New Delhi, Feb 3: The BJP Tuesday released its vision document for the 2015 Delhi assembly polls, promising to address fundamental issues like power, water, hospitals and transport system in the capital. "If we want to make Delhi a smart and a world class city, we have to address the basic issues like electricity, water and transport," Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi unit chief Satish Upadhyay told

New Delhi, Feb 3: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Tuesday said it will ask the leadership of BJP and Congress to agree for a probe by a Supreme Court-monitored Special Investigation Team (SIT) to investigate the funding of all the three major parties in the Delhi polls. The party said it will write to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and BJP President Amit Shah seeking their consent for the investigation

New Delhi, Feb 3: Exuding confidence that his party will come to power in Delhi, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal today said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will reduce its Delhi CM candidate Kiran Bedi’s stature considerably, invoking former PM Manmohan Singh under Congress President Sonia Gandhi under IPA regime. He also added that BJP has pressed the ‘panic button’ and was now

New Delhi, Feb 2: Exuding confidence that his party will come to power in Delhi, AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal today said the BJP has pressed the "panic button" and was now resorting to "politics of poison" to avoid a defeat. Five days ahead of the voting to the 70-member Delhi assembly, Kejriwal predicted that Congress will not win even a single seat which will obviate the need for him to take that

New Delhi, Feb 2: Aam Aadmi Party Chief Arvind Kejriwal today said that he will complain to the Election Commission against the BJP for allegedly attacking his community in an advertisement. "BJP in the past few days has been giving few advertisements personally attacking me. They attacked me and my children, I kept quiet because Anna used to say that if someone personally attacks you, you should

New Delhi, Feb 2: Just before the Delhi Assembly elections, Kiran Bedi's Election campaign assistant Narendra Tandon resigned from his post. Tandon blamed Kiran Bedi for his resgination and stated that her dictating attitude had become unbearable for him. He was upset with Bedi and thus resigned from his post. Narendra Tandon was an executive member of Delhi BJP and former Delhi Secretary. When

New Delhi, Feb 2: The Centre has indicated that it may order a fresh probe into the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. This comes after a government-appointed panel recommended setting up a special investigation team (SIT) to investigate the killings following the assassination of prime minister Indira Gandhi October 31, 1984. The controversy surrounding several Congress leaders has not yet been put to rest

New Delhi, Feb 1: Congress President Sonia Gandhi today slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, saying one was a "pracharak" and the other a "dharnebaaj", as she asked voters to save Delhi from those who make only "hollow promises". "While one party has a pracharak, who only does 'prachar' the other just has a dharnebaaj, who is all the time busy organising dharnas