According to rules, a party needs to have at least 10 per cent of the total seats in the House to be considered as the main opposition.

Malik, 72, started his political journey as a socialist student leader and went on to join many parties with contrasting ideologies.

The decision comes against the backdrop of Ajit Singh-led RLD failing to curry favour with with either ruling Samajwadi Party or Congress.

The side which has the support of majority (50 per cent plus 1) MPs, MLAs, MLCs and delegates will gain an upper hand in the fight to contr...

Braja Kishore Tripathy, who now leads the Samata Kranti Dal, a state-level party, made the allegation at a press conference in New Delhi. T...

A complaint was filed in a court here against 'PK' actor Aamir Khan, director Rajkumar Hirani, producer Vidhu Vinod Chopra and others for a...

The second highest number of 93 women candidates who contested the Haryana assembly polls was in 1996 and out of them only four were electe...

"We appreciate their valiant efforts to search, locate, establish contact and then conduct rescue, relief and evacuation operations."

Over the course of three elections in 1984, 1989, and 1991, the Doordarshi party fielded candidates in over 716 seats across the country.

Even after two rounds of discussions between the BJP's central leaders including Arun Jaitley with leaders of small parties in Odisha, ther...

A day after announcing "unconditional support" to the Congress, top leaders of the BSP including all the three party MLAs went to Raj Bhava...

While Congress had claimed it has got support of the lone UKD MLA, BJP kept its cards close to its chest.

Uttarakhand witnessed a neck- and-neck fight between BJP and Congress with the ruling party taking an early lead in 29 seats.

Smaller caste-based political parties, which are considered as potential spoilers, have failed to make a strong impact on political equatio...

One of the most powerful Backward Caste leaders from Uttar Pradesh, Socialist Beni Prasad Verma has made a dramatic comeback in his new ava...

BJP secured majority on its own in Uttarakhand by retaining the by-election to the Vikasnagar assembly seat.

With an independent MLA pledging his support to the BJP, Uttarakhand governor Sudershan Aggarwal on Friday invited former Union minister BC...