Declare Priyanka Gandhi UP chief minister candidate: Karti Chidambaram

Insiders say Vadra's profile improved several notches after she took on the UP government in May over plying buses to transport migrant labourers, stranded in Delhi, due to the lockdown

New balance

Former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath lost no time in using Wednesday’s cabinet expansion in the state to take a swipe at the Bharatiya Janata Party and his colleague-turned-rival Jyotiraditya Scindia. “I feel very sad at not finding many able, dedicated and senior BJP MLAs in today's cabinet expansion,” the Congress leader tweeted in Hindi after 28 new ministers joined the Shivraj Singh Chouhan-led BJP government in the state. Many took his statement as a dig at Chouhan, who seemed to have lost the first round to Scindia. Many of Chouhan’s men did not get a berth