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New Delhi: The Samajwadi Party (SP) is looking to expand its base beyond Uttar Pradesh. So it wants alliance not only in Uttar Pradesh but a few other state by imposing conditions on the Congress for a crucial Opposition alliance in Uttar Pradesh ahead of next year’s Lok Sabha elections. Senior leaders from both sides are in touch to hammer out differences.

On Sunday, senior SP leaders indicated that the party’s rank and file wants seats from the Congress in the assembly poll-bound states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh in exchange for a pact in UP, where the party already has an alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). “After fighting against each other in these states, an alliance only for UP would look absurd,” SP general secretary Kiranmay Nanda said.

New Delhi: Kerala BJP asked the government to bring an ordinance to restore the pre-judgment situation on lines of what Tamil Nadu did with ‘Jallikattu.’as chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan directed the Travancore Devasom Board (TDB) to take necessary steps to implement the Supreme Court verdict opening Sabarimala temple for women of all ages.

The BJP and the broader Sangh Parivar affiliates have called for a meeting on October 8 at Kochi to chalk out a strategy and are planning to move a review petition in the Supreme Court. Though the BJP has not taken a firm stand on the verdict, state leaders said they will inform the central leadership about the “pent-up anger” in the state over it.

New Delhi: The Congress has equated the BJP with the Britishers, alleging both of them followed the ‘divide and rule policy’ and supported loot of India’s resources to be moved abroad. The Opposition party alleged that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Pakistan are on the “same page in propagating hatred, violence and division among people”.

Congress’s stinging attack follow repeated jibes from the ruling party that the opposition party and Pakistan both wanted to oust Prime Minister Narendra Modi from power.

New Delhi: One after another onslaught against the Prime Minister, Congress president Rahul Gandhi accused Narendra Modi over the alleged financial support of LIC to debt-ridden IL&FS and asked whether the prime minister “loves financial scams”. Taking to Twitter he said the Life Insurance Corporation (LIC) is the country’s symbol of trust and common people have saved every rupee to buy its policies.

“Modi ji, your favourite private company IL&FS is about to turn bankrupt. You are trying to save it by putting the money of LIC. Why?” he asked in a tweet in Hindi.