Rebel Congress Legislators

More legislators are feeling suffocated in the Congress and would also show courage to leave the party in the coming days, said Rajinder Rana, one of the six disqualified MLAs who switched to the BJP on Saturday.

Rajinder Rana, one of the six Himachal Congress MLAs who cross-voted in the Rajya Sabha elections and was later disqualified from the assembly, today rubbished Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's claim that some rebel legislators want to return.

A key member of the rebel faction of Shiv Sena Member of Legislative Assembly in Maharashtra has claimed Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar was behind the earlier splits in the party.

Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee today hit out at Home Minister Amit Shah, who addressed a rally in West Bengal and greeted rebels from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party ahead of election to the legislative assembly, just months away.

Home Minister Amit Shah is back in West Bengal this weekend, 40 days after he kicked off the BJP's campaign for 200 out of 294 seats for election to the legislative assembly. His itinerary is yet to be fixed, but the highpoint, barring unforeseen circumstances, will be the induction of Trinamool Congress leader Suvendu Adhikari into the BJP.

Former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot and other legislators who have rebelled against the Ashok Gehlot government have approached the Supreme Court, requesting it to hear them before deciding on any appeal against the high court order earlier in the day.

You can't be Chief Minister of a state with the support of just 20-25 legislators, Congress leader Kapil Sibal told party rebel Sachin Pilot through a news conference on Friday, hours after the sacked Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister scored a temporary reprieve at the high court. "You can't make party a tamasha (grand show) before the public," Mr Si...

As mystery deepens on the whereabouts of the 18 Congress legislators from Rajasthan, who have sided with Sachin Pilot in his open revolt against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, a rebel MLA has told NDTV that they are not headed to BJP-ruled Karnataka, as speculated throughout the evening.

A team of the Rajasthan Police that went to one of the two fancy resorts in Haryana's Manesar, where 18 Congress legislators have reportedly been camping since the weekend, returned empty-handed on Friday after they were not able to find any rebel MLAs there, sources have said.

The Congress on Monday avoided collapse in Rajasthan after a revolt by its number two leader in the state, Sachin Pilot, but it packed off at least 100 MLAs to a resort in a sign that its crisis is far from over. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot flashed the victory sign along with Congress MLAs who attended his meeting in Jaipur, asserting that his gove...

Shops and establishments in Bahoor, a rural Assembly segment in Puducherry, remained closed on Saturday following a call given by supporters of rebel legislator of the ruling Congress N Dhanavelou.

The four MLAs of Conrad Sangma's NPP -- who had formed an understanding with the Congress and brought the BJP-led Manipur government to the brink of collapse -- were taken to Delhi today for urgent discussions with the top leaders of the BJP.

At least nine legislators have decided to withdraw support from the BJP-led Biren Singh government in Manipur, which would rob it of majority in the state assembly, sources in the state Congress said. This will also lead to major trouble for the BJP ahead of the Rajya Sabha election in the state, which will be held on June 19.

The Manipur High Court on Monday ordered the speaker of the state legislative assembly not to allow the seven Congress MLAs, who defected to the BJP, from entering the Assembly. The development comes ahead of the crucial 19 June Rajya Sabha polls.

Madhya Pradesh Congress legislators, who have resigned from the assembly pushing the Kamal Nath government to the brink, have demanded special security ahead of their meeting with the speaker.

More legislators are feeling suffocated in the Congress and would also show courage to leave the party in the coming days, said Rajinder Rana, one of the six disqualified MLAs who switched to the BJP on Saturday.

Rajinder Rana, one of the six Himachal Congress MLAs who cross-voted in the Rajya Sabha elections and was later disqualified from the assembly, today rubbished Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's claim that some rebel legislators want to return.

A key member of the rebel faction of Shiv Sena Member of Legislative Assembly in Maharashtra has claimed Nationalist Congress Party president Sharad Pawar was behind the earlier splits in the party.

Trinamool Congress MP Kalyan Banerjee today hit out at Home Minister Amit Shah, who addressed a rally in West Bengal and greeted rebels from Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's party ahead of election to the legislative assembly, just months away.

Home Minister Amit Shah is back in West Bengal this weekend, 40 days after he kicked off the BJP's campaign for 200 out of 294 seats for election to the legislative assembly. His itinerary is yet to be fixed, but the highpoint, barring unforeseen circumstances, will be the induction of Trinamool Congress leader Suvendu Adhikari into the BJP.

Former Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister Sachin Pilot and other legislators who have rebelled against the Ashok Gehlot government have approached the Supreme Court, requesting it to hear them before deciding on any appeal against the high court order earlier in the day.

You can't be Chief Minister of a state with the support of just 20-25 legislators, Congress leader Kapil Sibal told party rebel Sachin Pilot through a news conference on Friday, hours after the sacked Rajasthan Deputy Chief Minister scored a temporary reprieve at the high court. "You can't make party a tamasha (grand show) before the public," Mr Si...

As mystery deepens on the whereabouts of the 18 Congress legislators from Rajasthan, who have sided with Sachin Pilot in his open revolt against Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, a rebel MLA has told NDTV that they are not headed to BJP-ruled Karnataka, as speculated throughout the evening.

A team of the Rajasthan Police that went to one of the two fancy resorts in Haryana's Manesar, where 18 Congress legislators have reportedly been camping since the weekend, returned empty-handed on Friday after they were not able to find any rebel MLAs there, sources have said.

The Congress on Monday avoided collapse in Rajasthan after a revolt by its number two leader in the state, Sachin Pilot, but it packed off at least 100 MLAs to a resort in a sign that its crisis is far from over. Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot flashed the victory sign along with Congress MLAs who attended his meeting in Jaipur, asserting that his gove...

Shops and establishments in Bahoor, a rural Assembly segment in Puducherry, remained closed on Saturday following a call given by supporters of rebel legislator of the ruling Congress N Dhanavelou.

The four MLAs of Conrad Sangma's NPP -- who had formed an understanding with the Congress and brought the BJP-led Manipur government to the brink of collapse -- were taken to Delhi today for urgent discussions with the top leaders of the BJP.

At least nine legislators have decided to withdraw support from the BJP-led Biren Singh government in Manipur, which would rob it of majority in the state assembly, sources in the state Congress said. This will also lead to major trouble for the BJP ahead of the Rajya Sabha election in the state, which will be held on June 19.

The Manipur High Court on Monday ordered the speaker of the state legislative assembly not to allow the seven Congress MLAs, who defected to the BJP, from entering the Assembly. The development comes ahead of the crucial 19 June Rajya Sabha polls.

Madhya Pradesh Congress legislators, who have resigned from the assembly pushing the Kamal Nath government to the brink, have demanded special security ahead of their meeting with the speaker.