Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, one of the 2008 Malegaon blast prime accused, joined the BJP. She will be pitted against senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh from Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency. Thakur is currently out on bail in the case, which saw over 40 killed.
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After Uttar Pradesh chief minister Yogi Adityanath referred to the Indian Union Muslim League as a “green virus”, Twitter has withheld his two controversial tweets while acting on Election Commission’s directive.
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The Election Commission has cancelled polling in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore Lok Sabha constituency. This development comes after a total of ₹11.5 crore in cash was recovered from a DMK candidate’s house and other places towards the end of March through the first week of April.
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The wife of actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, Poonam Sinha, joined Samajwadi party, on Tuesday. She was welcomed in the party by Dimple Yadav, party chief and former Uttar Pradesh chief minister Akhilesh Yadav’s wife.
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Om Prakash Rajbhar, whose Suheldav Bhartiya Samaj Party is an ally of the BJP-led Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar Pradesh, decided to go independently in the ongoing Lok Sabha election. He has fielded his party candidates for 39 seats in the state.
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The Supreme Court has rejected BSP chief Mayawati’s plea against the Election Commission’s decision of temporarily banning her from campaigning. While rejecting her plea, the apex court said the EC “seems to have woken up and found its powers”.
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A few hours after the Election Commission barred the UP CM and BJP star campaigner, Yogi Adityanath, and the BSP chief, Mayawati, from campaigning, senior SP leader Azam Khan and Union minister Maneka Gandhi were also barred from election campaigning.
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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”.
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Three days after the Supreme Court directed the political parties to bring transparency in the election-funding process, a social worker shared the data received through an RTI query, which shows 99.8% of donations received by political parties was through electoral bonds
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Samajwadi Party’s Azam Khan got an NCW notice and an FIR against him after he, in an apparent reference to Jaya Prada, said “the underwear she wears is khaki.” Jaya Prada recently joined the BJP and is contesting the Lok Sabha poll from Rampur seat against Khan.
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