Sehwag may contest Rohtak LS seat on BJP ticket, report says

The Bhartiya Janta Party is mulling to introduce former cricketer Virendra Sehwag in the party and field him as its candidate from Rohtak for this year’s Lok Sabha election, according to a media report. Read More
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Assam’s BJP govt tries to woo voters with gold sop

In BJP-ruled Assam, finance minister Himanta Biswa Sarma raised the bar, on Wednesday, he offered 10 grams of gold, whose estimated price is around Rs 38,000, for brides from families with annual income of less than Rs 5 lakh. Read More
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VHP announces suspension of Ayodhya agitation for 4 months

The Vishwa Hindu Parishad, after holding “dharmasabhas (religious meetings)” across the country demanding an ordinance to enable construction of a Ram temple in Ayodhya and later holding a “dharmasansad (religious parliament)” at the Kumbh Mela Read More
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Shah hints at holding Maharashtra, Haryana state polls with LS election

The Bharatiya Janata Party president, Amit Shah, on Sunday, has hinted at advancing the assembly polls in Maharashtra and Haryana to club them with the 2019 Lok Sabha election. Read More
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Budget: Modi govt baits middle class, farmers with tax, cash sops

The Narendra Modi government has presented the interim Union Budget for 2019-20 that primarily focused on wooing the middle class, workers from the unorganized sector and farmers, ahead of this year’s Lok Sabha election, which is about two months away. Read More
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Rahul vows ‘minimum income’ scheme for poor if voted to power

Ahead of this year’s Lok Sabha election, the Congress president, Rahul Gandhi, has come up with a populist scheme that directly challenges Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s purported direct cash-transfer scheme. Read More
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EVM ‘hacking’: EC says it ‘won’t be bullied’ to bring back ballot papers

The chief election commissioner, Sunil Arora, on Thursday, said there’s no question of reintroducing ballot papers and the Election Commission “will not be intimidated, bullied or coerced into giving up EVMs”. Read More
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Priyanka Gandhi enters politics, to head Congress in east UP

Ahead of the Lok Sabha election, Priyanka Gandhi-Vadra formally entered active politics. This was announced by the Congress, on Wednesday. Priyanka will be the party general secretary in eastern Uttar Pradesh – a key state that sends 80 members to the Lok Sabha. Read More
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In Bihar, RJD considers alternative plan of alliance minus Congress

With the Congress demanding not less than 12 Lok Sabha seats in a seat-sharing agreement with ally Rashtriya Janata Dal in Bihar, the RJD has asked the smaller constituents of the state’s mahagathbandhan to be prepared for a Congress-less alliance. Read More
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Kejriwal starts LS campaign in Punjab, focuses on dalits

The Aam Adami Party leader and Delhi chief minister, Arvind Kejriwal, in his first political rally in Punjab in two years, has drawn attention of the people towards the welfare measures taken by the government particularly for the poor and the dalit community. Read More
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