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Jind byelection: BJP’s Krishan Middha wins big, Congress’s Randeep Singh Surjewala ends at third position

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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Karnataka political crisis: BJP mocks JD(S)-Congress discord, calls ongoing strife as ‘nataka’

‘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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Rahul Gandhi promises ‘minimum income’ guarantee for poor if Congress comes into power

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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Amid EVM ‘hacking’ row, Election Commission says it ‘won’t be intimidated’ to reintroduce ballot papers

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 active politics, to head Congress in eastern Uttar Pradesh

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 mahagathbandhan minus Congress

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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In Rajasthan, Ashok Gehlot’s Congress government looks to beat BJP in cow politics

In Rajasthan, Gehlot’s Cong govt looks to beat BJP in cow politics

The Ashok Gehlot-led Congress government in Rajasthan has become first state in the country to introduce first ever dedicated ministry for cow welfare – gopalan ministry. Read More

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Karnataka Congress finds 4 of its MLAs short in headcount, moves the rest to resort ‘to protect them from BJP’

Karnataka: Congress moves its 76 MLAs to resort to ‘protect from BJP’

Four Congress MLAs didn’t turn out despite former chief minister and Karnataka Congress leader Siddaramaiah warning his MLAs of stern action if they fail to attend Friday’s CLP meeting in Vidhan Soudha, Bengaluru. Read More

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Karnataka Congress crisis: Siddaramaiah orders his MLAs to attend legislative party meeting

Siddaramaiah orders Karnataka Congress MLAs to attend meeting

All the Congress MLAs, who were reported to have rebelled earlier, have confirmed that they are very much part of the party and the reports of their defection are false. Read More

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Kamal Nath’s Madhya Pradesh government moves to withdraw BJP-era cases against Congress workers, farmers and social activists

MP moves to drop BJP-era cases against Congress workers, activists

The Madhya Pradesh cabinet, led by chief minister Kamal Nath, has initiated a new procedure for withdrawal of cases lodged against Congress workers, farmers and social activists registered by the Bharatiya Janata Party government in the last 15 years. Read More

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