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Amarinder meets Shah, Nadda amid exit rumours

Dismissing reports of a rift, BJPโ€™s senior spokesperson Pritpal Singh Baliawal had said, โ€œHe is not going anywhere. He is with the BJP.โ€

Some forces trying to push countryโ€™s youths towards โ€˜negative politicsโ€™: BJP chief Nitin Nabin

โ€œSome forces are trying to make the country's youths anti-establishment,โ€ Mr. Nabin said during an interaction with intellectuals in Ranchi.

K. Annamalai | New chapter

The former BJP Tamil Nadu president has quit the party and launched a new โ€˜movementโ€™, promising to bring โ€˜constructiveโ€™ and โ€˜cleanโ€™ politics

PM Modi has not extended support to any โ€˜political movementโ€™: Nainar Nagenthran amid Annamalaiโ€™s resignation

He urged party workers not to become members or supporters of any organisation other than the BJP. โ€œIf anyone does so, it will be considered a violation of party discipline,โ€ he added

Rajya Sabha polls: Fears of cross-voting, hints from BJP leaders make Congress cautious

The three seats that are going to fall vacant from Madhya Pradesh are currently held by Union Minister George Kurien, BJP MP Sumer Singh Solanki, and senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh

BJP urges Chief Minister D.K. Shivakumar to seek fresh mandate instead of running a โ€˜ricketyโ€™ dispensation

BJP slams land value hike, seeks immediate review

INDIA bloc dead and buried, exists only on paper after DMK boycott: BJP

The decision is a continuation of its stand against the Congress ever since the national party joined hands with the TVK, which won the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections

Saffron offshoots: Leaders who quit BJP to start their own parties

From Shankersinh Vaghela in Gujarat to K Annamalai in Tamil Nadu, BJP has seen many leaders part ways. Most of them returned to the saffron folds and quit from active politics.

BJP chief Nitin Nabin accepts Annamalaiโ€™s resignation from partyโ€™s membership

The developments comes three days after Mr. Annamalai held meetings with Union Home Minister Amit Shah, Mr. Nabin, and national general secretary of the party B.L. Santhosh and submitted his resignation letter to the party leadership on June 2

BJP rattled as Congress swept Himachalโ€™s rural, urban local body polls, says Negi

Congress reclaimed both the President and Vice-President posts in Chambaโ€™s urban local body after 10 years and in Chuwariโ€™s municipal body after 15 years

Political culture of Trinamool should not taint BJP, says West Bengal Minister Swapan Dasgupta

Dasguptaโ€™s comments come at a time of tumult in the Trinamool Congress legislature party; two-thirds of party MLAs have expressed their support to expelled Trinamool MLA Ritabrata Banerjee, who was appointed as the Leader of Opposition on Wednesday

Rahul โ€˜selling panicโ€™, promoting baseless conspiracy theories: BJP

Claiming that the Modi government is facing an โ€˜institutional revoltโ€™, the Congress leader says an unprecedented โ€˜economic tsunamiโ€™ is set to hit India as the BJP government had removed protections against international shocks, and its control over institutions has collapsed

BJP names Rajya Sabha candidates for five States; two Union Ministers left out

Ravneet Singh Bittu and George Kurian not renominated as party fields mix of organisational leaders and younger faces

Dattatraya Patil Revoor booked for saying Congress leaders trying to turn Kalaburagi into โ€˜Pakistanโ€™

Revoor made the remarks during a BJP protest against the State govt.โ€™s decision to withdraw cases related to the Aland communal violence

Annamalai to have open conversation on social media on June 5

Have not received any resignation letter from Annamalai: Nainar Nagenthran

Only the media is magnifying this issue and making a mountain out of a molehill, says T.N. BJP president

Cockroach Janta Partyโ€™s rise reflects peopleโ€™s frustration with the BJP: Hooda

The Congress, the former Haryana CM says, has been consistently raising people-centric issues in its role as the main Opposition party and would continue to do so, while the CJP was in its formative stage

BJPโ€™s Ramchander Rao shrugs off โ€˜Cockroach Partyโ€™, slams Congress, BRS for stirring Telangana sentiment

He asserted that Gen Z remains rooted in Indian ethos, heritage and history, and โ€œwill not fall into the trap of those funded by George Sorosโ€

BJP reacts to Rahul Gandhiโ€™s remarks against PM Modi

Rahul Gandhi claimed that Mr. Modi will not be the Prime Minister in a yearโ€™s time, as the โ€œsystem that he once controlled is now shaken and collapsing internallyโ€

BJP has no role; TMC will collapse byt itself, says BJP leader

Absolute incompetence of BJP unmasked by NFHS-6 data: Kharge

Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge accused the BJP of having a five-step formula to hide its sin: burying selected data, abandoning the vulnerable, advertising โ€œSabka Saathโ€ and โ€œAmrit Kaalโ€, manipulating the narrative and protecting Prime Minister Narendra Modiโ€™s PR at all costs

A.P. BJP president urges cadres to prepare for local body polls

Policy address a fraudulent document, say BJP legislators

They say that since there are three BJP members in the Kerala Assembly the party will give a fitting reply to โ€œone-sided allegations raised against the Union government while ignoring factsโ€

LDF questions lack of criticism of Centre in policy address

CPI(M) MLA P.A. Mohamed Riyas says policy address raises concern about whether the UDF will also follow the same policies as the BJP-led Union government. UDF members remind LDF of the massive defeat it suffered in the election

CPI(M) leader in Thiruvananthapuram joins BJP

Annamalai quits BJP, to start new political โ€˜movementโ€™

Sources told The Hindu on Wednesday that Mr. Annamalai submitted his resignation letter to the party leadership on Tuesday

Tamil Nadu BJP leader K. Annamalai meets Amit Shah

Several media reports claimed that Mr. Annamalai also met BJP president Nitin Nabin and party national general secretary B.L. Santhosh, and tendered his resignation from the party, but there was no official confirmation on this

Trinamool facing a split on the lines of Maharashtra: BJP leader Tapas Roy

This was inevitable... I amย very happyย that this has happened... TMC will cease to exist,ย Roy added

Tamil Nadu BJP leader K. Annamalai meets Amit Shah

According to sources, Mr. Annamalai's meeting with Mr. Shah lasted for about 30 minutes

Former Gujarat Minister and eight-time BJP MLA Yogesh Patel dies at 79

A veteran BJP leader, Patel served as a legislator for 36 years and was elected to the Gujarat Assembly eight consecutive times, starting from 1990

Congress has again capitulated to Muslim League on Vande Mataram: BJP

BJPโ€™s allegation came after Shashi Tharoor questioned the need to play all five verses of Vande Mataram at the beginning and end of official functions, describing the practice as an "unnecessary imposition"

TVK partymen increasingly involved in rape, murder cases: BJP leader Nainar Nagenthran

Nagendra Nath Tripathi appointed BJPโ€™s national organiser

Farmers hit by month-long procurement delay, alleges BJP

BJP attacks Kapil Sibal over 'ashamed to live in India' remark

Attack came in response to Mr. Sibal's remarks on May 31 that he was ashamed to live in a country where the party in power would use any means to destroy the foundations of democracy, referring to the attack on TMC MP Abhishek Banerjee

Bihar BJPโ€™s Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya mega training campaign-2026 concludes

Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary addressed the concluding session in Bhagalpur, while State President Sanjay Saraogi addressed training sessions in Motihari and Valmikinagar. Around 20,000 party workers across 52 organisational districts received Ideological and Organisational Training.

West Bengal Cabinet expansion: 35 more Ministers to be sworn in on June 1

With this expansion on June 1, Cabinet strength will rise to 41; along with seniority, the BJP is likely to give considerations to regional and community-wise representations

TMC legislatorsโ€™ meet called off as most MLAs skip over aftermath of attack on party leaders

Kunal Ghosh, however, communicated twin decisions taken by the party to heighten protests against the Suvendu Adhikari-led BJP government over the next 48 hours

BJP wins three of four Himachal civic bodies; Congress retains Palampur

The BJP retained the Mandi Municipal Corporation and wrested the Dharamshala and Solan Municipal Corporations from Congress

No SC status for Dalit Christians under existing constitutional framework, asserts BJP leader

Any claims suggesting otherwise are contrary to established legal provisions, says Devanand, accusing the YSRCP of attempting to incite Dalit Christians on the issue for political gain

BJP chief Nitin Nabin on 2-day visit to Jharkhand from June 6

BJP chief Nitin Nabin visits Jharkhand on June 6-7 for party events and meetings ahead of upcoming Rajya Sabha elections

TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee claims BJP supporters attacked, injured him outside police station

Tension prevailed outside the Chanditala police station as a group of people waved black flags at Kalyan Banerjee, the MP from Hoogly district's Sreerampore, and shouted "thief" at him and other TMC delegation

BJP alleges Mamata pressured private hospital to admit Abhishek Banerjee

Making the allegation in an X post, West Bengal BJP spokesperson Debjit Sarkar shared an audio clip in which Mamata Banerjee was purportedly heard expressing anger over the hospital's reluctance to admit the Diamond Harbour MP

BJP will form the government again in 2027 under Dhamiโ€™s leadership in Uttarakhand: Nitin Navin

Speaking at a gathering in Dehradun, Navin highlighted the Dhami governmentโ€™s impactful initiatives, including the implementation of the Uniform Civil Code and successful management of the Char Dham Yatra.

'Ugly face of BJP's politics of revenge': Opposition leaders condemn attack on TMC's Abhishek

Stones, eggs and abuses were hurled at the Diamond Harbour MP when he visited Sonarpur town on the outskirts of Kolkata to meet the family of a TMC worker who was allegedly killed in post-poll violence

Congress will face setback in 2028 Assembly elections: Former BJP MLA Narasimha Naik

Ministers statements on paddy procurement run contrary to ground reality: BJP State chief N. Ramchander Rao

Two head of cattle found dumped on roadside in Ballari; BJP, Hindu organisations stage protest

Former Minister B. Sriramulu and MLA for Gangavathi Gali Janardhana Reddy visit protest site, demand swift action against culprits

TMC general secretary Abhishek Banerjee attacked by mob at Bengalโ€™s Sonarpur

Police and central security forces reached the venue and escorted the Trinamool Congress general secretary, who was was holed up inside the house of a local Trinamool workers; locals including BJP supporters had gathered outside the house in large numbers.

Congress govt. in Himachal changing election rules to hijack local body polls: BJP State chief

The urban body polls, which should have been conducted in October-November 2025, were "deliberately delayed, pushing the State towards a constitutional crisis", Rajeev Bindal said

Confident that Manoj Jarange Patil will withdraw agitation: BJP Minister Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil

A delegation of BJP leaders โ€” Mr Vikhe Patil and Prasad Lad, will meet Jarange Patil on Friday (May 29, 2026) afternoon to address his demands

Revanth should tender resignation: BJP

BJP MP B.Y. Raghavendra reacts to developments in Congress

BJP demands Uniform Civil Code implemented in Telangana

Watch: Cockroach Janta Party: lessons for the ruling party and Opposition

The online satirical phenomena the Cockroach Janta Party, has gained a lot of traction online and in political discourse. It has also become, in a sense, a lightning rod, of a narrative tug of war rather than what it is โ€“ a signal to political parties across the spectrum. We analyse how the BJP and the opposition parties have responded to this.

BJP bets on Jat Sikh card with Dhillonโ€™s appointment as Punjab chief

The saffron party has historically struggled to make inroads in Punjab, but has lately been aggressively building its campaign momentum to gain a foothold in the border State

Stalin, Kejriwal condemn raids, flay Congress for its questionable relations with BJP

CPI(M) General Secretary M.A. Babyโ€™s questioned whether the UDF government was complicit in the raidsย at the residences ofย Pinarayi Vijayan

BJP to organise awareness programmes on Modiโ€™s 12-year governance from June 5 to 21

The Centre has introduced reforms aimed at economic growth and welfare, says Health Minister Satya Kumar Yadav and lashes out at Jagan for planning protests against coalition government in State

Supreme Court verdict on SIR, a defeat for Congress, allies: BJP

BJP MP Sudhanshu Trivedi says that after the SIR decision, Congress and Rahul Gandhi should introspect and stop using abusive language

Attack on ED officials shameful: BJP State chief

BJP leader V. Muraleedharan ridicules allegation of ED raid in former Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayanโ€™s house being politically motivated

Karnataka will go to mid-term polls, says BJP president B.Y. Vijayendra

Mr. Vijayendra said the Congress high commandโ€™s marathon meeting in Delhi, which culminated in a directive to Siddaramaiah to step down, was an admission of the governmentโ€™s failure.

Public will thrash BJP in next year's Uttar Pradesh polls: Akhilesh Yadav attacks govt on power โ€˜disruptionsโ€™

Samajwadi Party leader Akhilesh Yadav also questioned the absence of Uttar Pradesh's Power Minister from review meetings chaired by the Chief Minister

CPI(M) alleges Congress-BJP nexus over ED action in Kerala

CPI(M) accuses the ruling party in Kerala of playing second fiddle to BJPโ€™s โ€˜fondnessโ€™ for using ED to target Opposition figures and strong-arm political adversaries into switching allegiances

BJP alleges โ€˜Commission Rajโ€™ behind Hyderabad real estate slowdown

BJP stages protest against inactive administration, lack of development

A rally led by the former MPs Raja Amareshwar Naik and Umesh Jadhav was taken out to the Yadgir CMC office

Ex-BJD MP Debashish Samantaray joins BJP, a day after quitting regional party

While defections are likely to intensify in coming months in Odisha ahead of local polls in 2027, the BJD, a strong Opposition, will not be easily steamrolled on the ground; he was welcomed in the presence of BJP national president Nitin Nabin and Odisha Chief Minister Mohan Majhi

AIADMK, BJP criticise Tamil Nadu government over crop loan waiver announcement

Mr. Palaniswami said the TVK, in its election manifesto, assured to completely waive off loans of farmers who held up to 5 acre of land. But now, instead of using land as the criterion, the government has considered money as the yardstick.

BJP alleges โ€˜procurement conspiracyโ€™, says farmers forced to sell below MSP

Nitin Nabin sends BJP State unit into introspective mode

Arrests, mass resignations, โ€˜bulldozer actionโ€™ deepen Trinamoolโ€™s crisis across West Bengal

Drives against illegal construction, notices to properties linked to senior Trinamool leaders, and mass resignations in local bodies pile pressure on the TMC three weeks after the BJP assumed power in West Bengal

Munambam land row: Not even an inch of land to be given to anyone, says BJP

BJP hits out at Rahul Gandhi over fuel price comments amid global tensions

Responding to Mr. Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge who commented on the latest increase in prices of petrol and diesel, BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia says every decision taken by the government related to fuel prices would be in the public interest

Rahul Gandhi trying to spread โ€˜anarchyโ€™ and โ€˜instabilityโ€™, reiterates BJP

โ€œIf your aim, Rahul Gandhi, is to spread chaos, then our resolve is to make India stronger,โ€ says BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia

BJP MP upset with Congress govt. delaying funds for hotels

Jagadish Shettar says the State govt. has withheld crores of rupees to contractors who supply meals to hostels of Social Welfare Department

I am an aspirant for a Rajya Sabha seat: Sadananda Gowda

Debashish Samantaray quits BJD and Rajya Sabha membership, set to join BJP

With Debashish Samantarayโ€™s resignation, the BJDโ€™s strength in the Rajya Sabha will come down to five MPs

India orders new deportation centres days after BJP election victory

Indiaโ€™s ruling Hindu-nationalist party has ordered detention centres for undocumented Bangladeshis and Rohingyas in West Bengal state, sparking fear among minorities that it could lead to arbitrary expulsions. The directive comes just days after Prime Minister Narendra Modiโ€™s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won power in the eastern state for the first time since the countryโ€™s independence in 1947. The order calls on local authorities to set up โ€œholding centresโ€ for โ€œapprehended foreignersโ€ awaiting...

Cattle market empties as fear grips Eid preparations in Indiaโ€™s West Bengal

Tensions rise in key state, won by BJP this month for first time, as political shift disrupts Eid al-Adha traditions.

BJP MLA Mahesh Tenginakai insulted migrant workers in Hubballi assuming they are infiltrators, says Congress leader Rajat Ullagaddimath

Congress leader criticises police officers, who were present, accusing them of failing to follow the rule of law

BJPย names 5 candidates for Legislative Council polls

JMM, Cong. bid to divide society, undermine tribal rights wonโ€™t succeed:ย BJP

Jharkhandย govt. trying to undermine customs through newย PESAย Act rules, saysย Marandi; stresses the need to preserve, protect, and develop all sites of worship belonging to the tribal communities

National president Nabin asks BJP State unit not to be complacent while citing T.N. example of Opposition not benefitting from DMKโ€™s failure

BJP national president urges Karnataka State unit to instil confidence among people that it is a better political alternative

Suvendu urges BJP workers to follow law, says government will do โ€˜sabka hisabโ€™

Trinamool Congress chairperson Mamata Banerjee terms recently held polls โ€œmockery in the name of democracyโ€ and accuses the BJP government of destroying institutions she had โ€˜builtโ€™

BJP criticises State govt. over delays in Godavari basin projects

BJP tried to stitch coalition govt. in Tamil Nadu with DMK and AIADMK on election result day: Congress MP Manickam Tagore

Since Congress stalled this move, DMK is spewing venom against us, said the Virudhunagar MP

BJP criticises TVK government over law and order situation in Tamil Nadu

Mr. Nagenthran charged that the Chief Minister failed to ensure the law and order situation in the State and was instead focusing on publicity and propaganda and it reflected his โ€œinexperience.โ€

Rahul Gandhi trying to create โ€˜anarchyโ€™ to topple Modi Government: BJP

Sambit Patra claimed Mr. Gandhi's "plan" was exposed after Congress leader reportedly said at a meeting of the advisory council of the Congress' Minority Department that the Modi Government will fall within a year

12 MPs, four Parliamentary panels selected for Sansad Ratna Awards

In a statement, the Prime Point Foundation said BJP's Jagdambika Pal (Uttar Pradesh), P.P. Chaudhary (Rajasthan), Nishikant Dubey (Jharkhand) and Shiv Sena's Shrikant Eknath Shinde (Maharashtra) are among the MPs chosen in the individual category

BJP President Nitin Nabinโ€™s Birthday: Melody chocolates distributed among visually impaired children in Patna

Mr. Nabin was in Patna on May 23, 2026, and welcomed a few party leaders at his residence who had come to wish him on his 46th birthday

West Bengalย gained infamy due to recruitment scams, new recruitment policy in next Budget session: CM

The allegation of corruption in government jobs came to hurt the Trinamool Congress and the party lost the recently concluded assembly elections to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).

Leadership crisis, 'loot' in BJP govt., says Congress chief Kharge after third fuel price hike

The Congress chief cited the example of Italy saying it cut excise on fuel, giving their people some relief, while Australia reduced excise duty, slashing petrol prices by about โ‚น17 per litre for citizens

BJP-Congress spar in Uttar Pradesh over Ajay Raiโ€™s alleged remark on PM Modi; leader calls video AI-generated

This video is generated by the IT cell of the BJP through AI. In my entire political career of over 35-years, I have maintained dignity in politics, says Congress leader Ajay Rai reacting to the alleged viral video on social media

Bengali actors face heat after power shift to BJP; FIR filed over 2021 social media posts linked to post-poll violence

Parambrata Chatterjee says he had to โ€˜compromiseโ€™ and align with the TMC led by former Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for the sake of his one-year-old son

Reconstituted PAC meets; BJP objects to panel taking up issuesย suoย motu

The panel expressed concern over pending Action Taken Notes and a heavy backlog in the Audit Para Monitoring System, which tracks Ministriesโ€™ follow-up on audit observations related to irregularities, procedural violations, financial lapses, and inefficient use of public funds

BJP's Bengal win can reshape India's economic direction: Pradeep Gupta

Pradeep Gupta pointed out that regions with a strong port infrastructure and trade networks historically became centres of prosperity

BJP leaders to visit procurement centres, allege exploitation of farmers

Decoding SIR Impact in West Bengal

The post-SIR polls in West Bengal saw the BJP secure a decisive victory, with AITC chief Mamata Banerjee alleging electoral manipulation. Large-scale deletions and opaque additions of electors during the SIR had a major impact on the rollsโ€™ demographic composition; and appears to have influenced the results alongside anti-incumbency and communal polarisation