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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Mamata vs Centre: Supreme court to hear CBI’s plea on Tuesday

Mamata Banerjee continued her dharna in Kolkata over the CBI investigation in chit-fund cases, which involved a stand-off between the Kolkata Police and the central agency when the latter went to interrogate the Kolkata Police chief, Rajeev Kumar. 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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Congress wins Ramgarh bypoll, ups its Rajasthan tally to 100

Shaphia Zubair, the Congress candidate, has won the assembly byelection in Rajasthan’s Ramgarh by a margin of over 12,000 votes. She has defeated the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Sukhwant Singh and the Bahujan Samaj Party candidate Jagat Singh. Read More
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Jind byelection: BJP wins big, Congress’s Surjewala comes third

The BJP candidate, Krishan Middha, who is an ayurvedic doctor, won the election by huge margin of over 12,935 votes by getting 50,000 votes while JJP’s Digvijay Singh Chautala, who came second, secured 37,000 votes. Read More
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‘Nataka in Karnataka’: BJP mocks JD(S)-Congress strife

The Bharatiya Janata Party, while targeting the recent controversies relating to the Karnataka chief minister, HD Kumaraswamy, and Congress leaders of the state, has attacked the Janata Dal (Secular)-Congress coalition government through social media. Read More
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Violence erupts between BJP, TMC workers after Shah’s Bengal rally

Incidents of clashes between workers of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Trinamool Congress have been reported in Kanthi in East Midnapore district of West Bengal after BJP president Amit Shah’s rally. Both the parties accused each other for starting the violence. 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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