AIADMK factions using 'two leaves' symbol: EC not impressed

The Commission conveyed its "displeasure" to the V K Sasikala and O Panneerselvam factions and advised them not to repeat "such acts" in future.The warring factions of the AIADMK today faced the ire of the Election Commission for using the "two leaves" symbol of the party frozen by it.The Commission conveyed its "displeasure" to the V K Sasikala and O Panneerselvam factions and advised them not to repeat "such acts" in future.Recently, the Commission had frozen the AIADMK and its party symbol "two leaves" through an interim order following dispute between the two factions.As per the interim order, the two sides cannot use the name AIADMK or its poll symbol for the April 12 R K Nagar assembly bypoll which was necessitated due to the demise of J Jayalalithaa.It had allocated the party symbol "Hat" to All India Anna Dravid Munnetra Khazagam -- AIADMK (Amma). The other faction named All India Anna Dravid Munnetra Khazagam -- AIADMK (Puratchi Thalaivi Amma), was allotted the symbol "Electric Pole".

BJP confident of winning Meghalaya Assembly polls in 2018

BJP national vice president Avinash Rai Khanna today expressed optimism that his party will form a government in Meghalaya in 2018.BJP national vice president Avinash Rai Khanna on Friday expressed optimism that his party will form a government in Meghalaya in 2018.

"We will definitely form a new government in the state and for this, the policies of the Centre has to reach the grass root level," Khanna said while addressing BJP state leaders and party workers and urged party workers to start spreading the word about the good governance the Centre was doing under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.On the recent violent incidents in the name of cow vigilantism, the BJP leader later on told reporters that nobody has the right to take law in their own hands.