The Latest Breaking News from Bharatiya Janata Party

SILIGURI: West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday claimed that it was not her but the CPM which drove away Tata Motors from Singur.

LUCKNOW: Former MLA Imran Masood, who has been a prominent Muslim face in Saharanpur, quit Samajwadi Party to join Bahujan Samaj Party on Wednesday. Masood, the nephew of former Union minister, late Raheed Masood, had joined SP after quitting Congress just before the 2022 UP elections.

Al Jazeera speaks to Irfan Ahmad, an expert on Islamist parties and Islamophobia, to understand ban on Muslim groups.

There’s little in common between bigotry and “bhaijaan”, an Urdu word evoking love and respect for a brotherly figure. But in the haze of TV news electrosmog, even a word with such positive connotations as “bhaijaan” is being incubated as a pejorative.

In the midst of the election campaign for the Dhamnagar assembly by-poll, the ruling Biju Janata Dal Wednesday expelled former MLA Rajendra Das, from the party for "anti-party activities". Read more on Dynamite News:

PANAJI: The BJP govt’s policy to force non-performing govt employees to put in their papers, is nothing but creation of a back door entry for youth with ties with the ministers and the BJP, said the Trinamool Congress party.

BALLIA: BJP MP Virendra Singh Mast has announced plans to build an auditorium in memory of former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mulayam Singh Yadav and sanctioned Rs 25 lakh from his local area development funds.

The ruling BJP in Himachal Pradesh released names of all candidates for 62 assembly seats in the very first list, putting a number of young faces in the fray for first time. Read full list:

PATNA: RJD president Lalu Prasad’s ‘Saala’ (brother-in-law) Anirudh Prasad Yadav commonly known as Sadhu Yadav may disrupt his ‘bhanja’ (nephew) Tejashwi Prasad Yadav’s game plan to wrest Gopalganj assembly seat from the BJP in the by-election, to be held on November 3.

MUMBAI: Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar on Tuesday thanked Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah after being elected as treasurer of the BCCI.

LUCKNOW: Unwilling to take its political opponents for granted, the BJP plans to devise poll strategies on a seat to seat basis for the upcoming Urban Local Bodies (ULB) elections due later this year.