Single Party Rule

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge today charged that the Prime Minister and the BJP want to establish a "single party rule" in the country and the suspension of MPs from Parliament is for that.

The opposition Congress and the BJP Tuesday ridiculed the AAP for failing to win even a single seat in the recently held assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and asked the ruling party to focus on Punjab.

At some of the world’s most sensitive spots, authorities have installed security screening devices made by a single Chinese company with deep ties to China’s military and the highest levels of the ruling Communist Party.

The ruling BJP in Karnataka received a shot in the arm in the elections to the three municipal corporations by getting clear majority in Belagavi, emerged as the single largest party in Hubballi-Dharwad and finished a close second in Kalaburagi.

Nagaland Assembly will soon be opposition-less. The main Opposition party in the state - Naga People's Front (NPF), which is the single largest party in Nagaland with 25 MLAs, decided to join the Neiphiu Rio-led People's Democratic Alliance (PDA)

The ruling TRS in Telangana on Friday emerged as the single largest party in the 150-ward Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) election, winning 55 wards.

The ruling BJP, bombarded with questions from Rahul Gandhi on the China crisis, hit back today with a dig at his reported absence from meetings of the Standing Committee on Defence, a cross-party panel of MPs. BJP chief JP Nadda, in tweets, said the Congress MP "does not attend a single meeting" of the panel but continued to question the armed forc...

The Congress has won two seats in the Rajya Sabha elections in Rajasthan and won them convincingly. KC Venugopal got 64 votes and the party's second candidate Neeraj Dangi got 59 votes. That's a total of 123 votes which means not a single vote from the ruling party went awry. In fact, the Congress put together more than the requisite number of 51 f...

Taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his words on regularising illegal colonies in the city-state, the ruling Aam Adami Party (AAP) on Sunday said that not a single owner of an unauthorised house had been given the registration certificate so far.

With allies BJP and Shiv Sena looking no closer to forming a government together in Maharashtra a day before the assembly's term ends, a Sena leader has thrown a fresh dare at the ruling party. The BJP should form government as the single largest party, said Sena MP Sanjay Raut, and take "not 15 days but one month" to prove its majority.

The BJP is set to retain power in Haryana, where it fell short of a majority, with Haryana Lokhit Party's Gopal Kanda declaring today that six independent MLAs were ready to give unconditional support to the ruling party. The announcement comes after a series of meetings held since yesterday following a hung verdict in the Haryana election as the B...

As it fights for survival in Karnataka, the Congress has imploded in neighbouring Goa. Ten out of 15 Congress lawmakers have split from the party in Goa and have merged with the ruling BJP.

Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi on Friday said the single largest party in Lok Sabha deserves the post of Leader of Opposition and alleged that the rule cited to deny it the status was unconstitutional.

The BJP as the single largest party in Karnataka would find an "alternative" if the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition collapses on its own, Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers DV Sadananda Gowda said on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP has scored a victory bigger than in 2014 - leads suggest the party will cross the 300 mark - besting last time's 282 - to emerge as the single largest party. The party has kept its core states - the Hindi heartland, Gujarat and Maharashtra - while posting fresh victories in West Bengal, Odisha and the northeast. I...

Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge today charged that the Prime Minister and the BJP want to establish a "single party rule" in the country and the suspension of MPs from Parliament is for that.

The opposition Congress and the BJP Tuesday ridiculed the AAP for failing to win even a single seat in the recently held assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh and asked the ruling party to focus on Punjab.

At some of the world’s most sensitive spots, authorities have installed security screening devices made by a single Chinese company with deep ties to China’s military and the highest levels of the ruling Communist Party.

The ruling BJP in Karnataka received a shot in the arm in the elections to the three municipal corporations by getting clear majority in Belagavi, emerged as the single largest party in Hubballi-Dharwad and finished a close second in Kalaburagi.

Nagaland Assembly will soon be opposition-less. The main Opposition party in the state - Naga People's Front (NPF), which is the single largest party in Nagaland with 25 MLAs, decided to join the Neiphiu Rio-led People's Democratic Alliance (PDA)

The ruling TRS in Telangana on Friday emerged as the single largest party in the 150-ward Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC) election, winning 55 wards.

The ruling BJP, bombarded with questions from Rahul Gandhi on the China crisis, hit back today with a dig at his reported absence from meetings of the Standing Committee on Defence, a cross-party panel of MPs. BJP chief JP Nadda, in tweets, said the Congress MP "does not attend a single meeting" of the panel but continued to question the armed forc...

The Congress has won two seats in the Rajya Sabha elections in Rajasthan and won them convincingly. KC Venugopal got 64 votes and the party's second candidate Neeraj Dangi got 59 votes. That's a total of 123 votes which means not a single vote from the ruling party went awry. In fact, the Congress put together more than the requisite number of 51 f...

Taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his words on regularising illegal colonies in the city-state, the ruling Aam Adami Party (AAP) on Sunday said that not a single owner of an unauthorised house had been given the registration certificate so far.

With allies BJP and Shiv Sena looking no closer to forming a government together in Maharashtra a day before the assembly's term ends, a Sena leader has thrown a fresh dare at the ruling party. The BJP should form government as the single largest party, said Sena MP Sanjay Raut, and take "not 15 days but one month" to prove its majority.

The BJP is set to retain power in Haryana, where it fell short of a majority, with Haryana Lokhit Party's Gopal Kanda declaring today that six independent MLAs were ready to give unconditional support to the ruling party. The announcement comes after a series of meetings held since yesterday following a hung verdict in the Haryana election as the B...

As it fights for survival in Karnataka, the Congress has imploded in neighbouring Goa. Ten out of 15 Congress lawmakers have split from the party in Goa and have merged with the ruling BJP.

Congress leader Abhishek Singhvi on Friday said the single largest party in Lok Sabha deserves the post of Leader of Opposition and alleged that the rule cited to deny it the status was unconstitutional.

The BJP as the single largest party in Karnataka would find an "alternative" if the ruling Congress-JD(S) coalition collapses on its own, Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilizers DV Sadananda Gowda said on Monday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP has scored a victory bigger than in 2014 - leads suggest the party will cross the 300 mark - besting last time's 282 - to emerge as the single largest party. The party has kept its core states - the Hindi heartland, Gujarat and Maharashtra - while posting fresh victories in West Bengal, Odisha and the northeast. I...