Indian General Election, 2019

The Parliamentary board of the National Conference met here this evening after which a decision to contest all the six Lok Sabha seats was taken, the party said. Seemingly, the talks could not move as there were differences over seat-sharing, sources said.

Gujarat Congress IT cell vice president Hiren Banker said several Congress workers are adding "Berojgar" to their twitter handles. However, he also clarified that the Congress is yet to officially adopt the 'Berojgar' campaign.

The Bhim Army chief also appeared to rule out working with the Congress and said that the party had not done anything for Dalits in the last 70 years. “The BJP and the Congress are two sides of the same coin,” he said.

The Lok Sabha election is hence a litmus test for the Congress party at the national and state level. And it is high time the state leadership of the Congress party to wake up from its slumber and start the action.

"I wont refuse if any political parties show me solidarity. I just want to expose these liars."

E T Mohammed Basheer is a prominent Muslim parliamentarian in India known for his timely interventions. Recently he spoke against the triple Talaq bill and voted against the reservation for upper-castes in the parliament. Here, he speaks to Twayyib Rajab. Edited excerpts:

A nationwide shutdown has been called by several tribal and Dalit groups on Tuesday despite the February 13 ruling by the Supreme Court to stay eviction of 10 lakhs tribals and other forest dwellers.

India’s continuous denial to submit jurisdiction to the Rome Statute of International Criminal Court is not a debate or question of political sovereignty, rather it is a question of deep organized state policy to evade and deflect accountability to India’s ongoing genocide and mass violence pogroms and campaigns against Muslim, Sikhs, Kashmiri and Dalit.

Alleging that there were attempts by some in the Congress to block the rise of Dalit leaders, Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister G Parameshwara on February 25 claimed that he has thrice been denied the chief ministerial post, as he belonged to the community.

Transgender social activist and poet Disha Pinky Shaikh, from Ahmednagar, has been appointed as the state spokesperson of the Vanchit Bahujan Aaghadi (VBA).

Early selection of candidates will give them adequate time to run the campaign. The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) had announced majority of the candidates for Assembly elections in Telangana nearly three months before the elections.

BSP supremo Mayawati on Thursday said there was no difference between its government in Madhya Pradesh and the BJP government in Uttar Pradesh. Both parties, she said, ruled with a form of “state terror”.