Naidu meets Rahul, Akhilesh, Mayawati to cement alliance

Telugu Desam Party leader and Andhra Pradesh chief minister N Chandrababu Naidu met Congress president Rahul Gandhi in order to bring together opposition parties and cement an anti-BJP front. Read More
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Kejriwal says Muslims voted for Congress at last minute in Delhi

The AAP seems to have conceded that he has suffered losses in Delhi in the Lok Sabha election. Delhi chief minister and Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal said Delhi’s Muslim vote “shifted” to the Congress at the last minute before the polling started. Read More
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Chandrababu meets Rahul, discusses post-poll alliance

Andhra Pradesh chief minister and Telugu Desam Party leader N Chandrababu Naidu met Congress president Rahul Gandhi and discussed plans to hold meeting of opposition parties on May 21, two days ahead of Lok Sabha result to make strategy about post poll alliance. Read More
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Ex-BSF jawan Tej Bahadur Yadav’s nomination from Varanasi rejected

The Election Commission, on Wednesday, cancelled the nomination of former Border Security Force jawan and SP-BSP alliance candidate Tej Bahadur Yadav from the Varanasi Lok Sabha constituency. Read More
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Denial of tickets to veterans dulls poll mood for Congress in Bihar

Congress president Rahul Gandhi visited Bihar five times for election campaigning but silence seems to have enveloped the Congress in the state. Party’s campaign hasn’t gained momentum as none of the grand alliance leaders were present at the meetings, exposing the fissures among the alliance partne Read More
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AAP says alliance talks with Congress in Delhi failed

After a monthlong discussion over the possibility of alliance between the AAP and the Congress in Delhi for the Lok Sabha election, the Aam Aadmi Party reiterated that the party had tried everything to forge an alliance with the Congress but failed. Read More
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Maya shares dais with Mulayam; decades-old rivalry looks history

The Bahujan Samajwadi Party chief, Mayawati, shared a dais with Samajwadi Party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav after a long time. At an election rally in Mainpuri, Mayawati urged the people to vote for Singh while Singh urged his supporters to always respect Mayawati. Read More
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In Chennai, 159 inmates of mental institute vote for the first time

The Institute of Mental Health in Chennai scripted history as the inmates of the centre voted at a polling booth set up for them. Two days ago, there was a demonstration of the EVMs on the campus and the voters were also made aware of the parties in the fray. Read More
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AAP, Congress tie-up looks dead, Rahul says Kejriwal took ‘U-turn’

The chances of an alliance between the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress for the Lok Sabha election in Delhi has run into trouble with the Congress president, Rahul Gandhi, accusing the AAP leader, Arvind Kejriwal, of taking “yet another U-turn”. Read More
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In Deoband, SP, BSP, RLD first-ever joint rally pulls sea of loyalists

The show of strength by the three powerful regional parties – Samajwadi Party, Bahujan Samaj Party and Rashtriya Lok Dal – in Deoband pulled lakhs of loyalists from the three parties the rally where Mayawati, Akhilesh Yadav and Ajit Singh shared the stage for the first time. Read More
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