Ramzan is expected to commence either on May 5 or 6 and will last for about 29 days. The seven-phase Lok Sabha election will be held from April 11 to May 19 and the results will be declared on May 23.
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The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party appears more confident than before in the final run-up to the 2019 general election, announced on Sunday, after forming alliances with regional parties and making seat-sharing arrangements with smaller groups.
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Even as farmers saw very low increase, or even decrease, in price for their produce, the growth on agricultural wage hasn’t fallen as much. This means, while farm income has fallen labour wages remained more or less the same, squeezing the farmer’s income further.
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The Election Commission, on Sunday, while announcing the dates for the coming general election, said photographs of defence personnel cannot be used to promote political parties during campaign.
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The Election Commission has decided to not hold assembly election in Jammu & Kashmir simultaneously with the Lok Sabha poll, which the commission announced on Sunday. This has prompted charges that it is the Centre’s admission of the failure of its Kashmir policy.
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The Election Commission of India has announced the much-awaited poll dates for the Lok Sabha election, on Sunday. The election will be held in seven phases starting from April 11 and ending on May 19. The votes will be counted on May 23.
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The Communist Party of India, on Thursday, has declared its first list of 15 candidates for the Lok Sabha election. However, Kanhaiya Kumar, the former Jawaharlal Nehru University Student Union leader, was not included in the list.
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The Congress party, which is set to announce its second list of candidates, has opened a back channel for talks with the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party in Uttar Pradesh for a tie-up in the Lok Sabha election.
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The Samajwadi Party has named six candidates in its first list for the Lok Sabha election, which includes the party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav and party leader Akhilesh Yadav’s cousins Dharmendra Yadav and Akshay Yadav.
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The Modi government, in probably the last Cabinet meeting ahead of the Lok Sabha election, approved a raft of decisions like setting up 50 Kendriya Vidyalayas, a push to infrastructure and power projects and expanding health insurance benefits to ex-servicemen.
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