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The BJP's strength in the Rajya Sabha fell by four Saturday after as many nominated members - Rakesh Sinha, Ram Shakal, Sonal Mansingh, and Mahesh Jethmalani - completed their term.

A BJP worker and close aide of Gautam Buddh Nagar MP Mahesh Sharma was hospitalised with serious injuries after an attack on him by unidentified people in Greater Noida, police said on Friday.

Jailed politician Shrikant Tyagi's wife on Wednesday claimed threat from Gautam Buddh Nagar MP Mahesh Sharma after which the BJP demanded a CBI probe into the matter.

Umesh Kolhe, a chemist from Maharashtra's Amravati who was allegedly killed for defending former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma's comment about Prophet Muhammad, was friends with the accused arrested for his murder, his brother Mahesh Kolhe said.

A firecracker exploded and triggered a small fire in a tent under which some BJP leaders were seated on a stage during a religious programme in Greater Noida, prompting the local police to launch a probe, officials said on Monday.

Becoming among the first lawmakers in India to get inoculated for the COVID-19 infection, BJP leader Mahesh Sharma, the MP from Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar, was vaccinated for the coronavirus on Saturday as a healthcare worker.

The BJP today expelled 40 members from its Uttarakhand unit for "anti-party activities", news agency ANI reported. Some of the members who were expelled include Rajnish Sharma, Meera Raturi, Mohan Singh Bisht, Mahesh Bagri, Pramila Uniyal and Bhavan Singh, among others, according to a list of all the 40 names tweeted by ANI.

Capping weeks of uncertainty, the fate of the fragile Congress-Janata Dal Secular government in Karnataka could be decided today with a trust vote in the assembly. While Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy appealed to the rebels to return and "expose" the BJP, the defiant legislators ruled out attending the session. Karnataka BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa exu...

Union Minister and BJP leader Mahesh Sharma on Thursday described the Lok Sabha results as a signal towards "end of dynasty politics and politics of casteism".

A woman was arrested on Monday for allegedly demanding Rs 2 crore from Union minister Mahesh Sharma after threatening to make public an "objectionable" video from a pre-election meeting of the BJP leader, the police said

Campaigning for the Gautam Buddh Nagar Lok Sabha constituency came to an end on April 9. Mahesh Sharma, sitting BJP parliamentarian and Union Tourism Minister, had extensively toured Dadri, Jewar, Noida, Khurja and Sikandrabad -- the five assembly segments that fall in his parliamentary seat -- over the last few weeks.

Speaking in Sikandrabad near Delhi, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma called Congress president Rahul Gandhi "Pappu", a term BJP leaders and supporters often use to refer to him. Senior party leaders including its chief Amit Shah have mocked him by using the word.

Neither the BJP nor Prime Minister Narendra Modi support derogatory statements against any "daughter of the country", Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said on Wednesday.

A day after the Congress moved 76 of its 80 Karnataka legislators to a resort in Bengaluru amid fears of poaching by the opposition BJP to topple the coalition government in the state, the party has served a show cause notice to two of the four MLAs who did not turn up for the Congress Legislature Party or CLP meet on Friday.

Politics was earlier seen as a "dirty game", but the situation has "changed" after the BJP was voted to power at the Centre in 2014, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma said on Wednesday.

The BJP's strength in the Rajya Sabha fell by four Saturday after as many nominated members - Rakesh Sinha, Ram Shakal, Sonal Mansingh, and Mahesh Jethmalani - completed their term.

A BJP worker and close aide of Gautam Buddh Nagar MP Mahesh Sharma was hospitalised with serious injuries after an attack on him by unidentified people in Greater Noida, police said on Friday.

Jailed politician Shrikant Tyagi's wife on Wednesday claimed threat from Gautam Buddh Nagar MP Mahesh Sharma after which the BJP demanded a CBI probe into the matter.

Umesh Kolhe, a chemist from Maharashtra's Amravati who was allegedly killed for defending former BJP spokesperson Nupur Sharma's comment about Prophet Muhammad, was friends with the accused arrested for his murder, his brother Mahesh Kolhe said.

A firecracker exploded and triggered a small fire in a tent under which some BJP leaders were seated on a stage during a religious programme in Greater Noida, prompting the local police to launch a probe, officials said on Monday.

Becoming among the first lawmakers in India to get inoculated for the COVID-19 infection, BJP leader Mahesh Sharma, the MP from Uttar Pradesh's Gautam Buddh Nagar, was vaccinated for the coronavirus on Saturday as a healthcare worker.

The BJP today expelled 40 members from its Uttarakhand unit for "anti-party activities", news agency ANI reported. Some of the members who were expelled include Rajnish Sharma, Meera Raturi, Mohan Singh Bisht, Mahesh Bagri, Pramila Uniyal and Bhavan Singh, among others, according to a list of all the 40 names tweeted by ANI.

Capping weeks of uncertainty, the fate of the fragile Congress-Janata Dal Secular government in Karnataka could be decided today with a trust vote in the assembly. While Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy appealed to the rebels to return and "expose" the BJP, the defiant legislators ruled out attending the session. Karnataka BJP chief BS Yeddyurappa exu...

Union Minister and BJP leader Mahesh Sharma on Thursday described the Lok Sabha results as a signal towards "end of dynasty politics and politics of casteism".

A woman was arrested on Monday for allegedly demanding Rs 2 crore from Union minister Mahesh Sharma after threatening to make public an "objectionable" video from a pre-election meeting of the BJP leader, the police said

Campaigning for the Gautam Buddh Nagar Lok Sabha constituency came to an end on April 9. Mahesh Sharma, sitting BJP parliamentarian and Union Tourism Minister, had extensively toured Dadri, Jewar, Noida, Khurja and Sikandrabad -- the five assembly segments that fall in his parliamentary seat -- over the last few weeks.

Speaking in Sikandrabad near Delhi, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma called Congress president Rahul Gandhi "Pappu", a term BJP leaders and supporters often use to refer to him. Senior party leaders including its chief Amit Shah have mocked him by using the word.

Neither the BJP nor Prime Minister Narendra Modi support derogatory statements against any "daughter of the country", Union Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said on Wednesday.

A day after the Congress moved 76 of its 80 Karnataka legislators to a resort in Bengaluru amid fears of poaching by the opposition BJP to topple the coalition government in the state, the party has served a show cause notice to two of the four MLAs who did not turn up for the Congress Legislature Party or CLP meet on Friday.

Politics was earlier seen as a "dirty game", but the situation has "changed" after the BJP was voted to power at the Centre in 2014, Union Minister Mahesh Sharma said on Wednesday.