Bharat Express

NCP

Former Chief Minister and National Conference (NC) vice president, Omar Abdullah, officially entered the race for the Ganderbal Assembly seat by filing his nomination papers on Wednesday.

The Rajya Sabha, which has a total of 245 seats, currently has eight vacancies—four from Jammu and Kashmir and four nominated seats.

Chief Spokesman Mahesh Tapase has raised alarm over the possible surveillance of party MP Supriya Sule by certain government agencies.

Around two dozen NCP leaders from Pimpri-Chinchwad have defected to Sharad Pawar's faction, dealing a setback to Ajit Pawar ahead of key elections.

The LS is expected to elect its Speaker with PM Narendra Modi, HM Amit Shah, and other NDA leaders proposing Om Birla for the role.

Uddhav Thackeray, buoyed by his faction's nine-seat win compared to the breakaway group's seven, indicated a firm stance against those who had defected but left some room for reconciliation.

NCP swiftly rejected recent assertions made by Praful Patel regarding Pawar's purported readiness to align with the BJP.

SC pulled up the Ajit Pawar camp for allegedly exploiting the name and images of the NCP founder Sharad Pawar in their campaigning efforts.

In the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra, the Congress will be part of the INDIA bloc, aligning with the Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray-led Shiv Sena and the Sharad Pawar faction of the NCP.

The Election Commission of India has provided a one-time option to Sharad Pawar to claim a name for its new political formation and provide three preferences to the Commission.