After winning a clear majority in the 2019 Lok Sabha election, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic alliance is also likely to dominate the Rajya Sabha by 2021. This will give the government a free hand to clear legislations.
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Days after a Kannada newspaper, “Vishwavani”, published articles on the “turmoil” within former PM and JD(S) chief HD Deve Gowda’s family following the party’s disastrous Lok Sabha campaign, the police registered an FIR against the paper’s owner-editor and his editorial team.
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After Congress chief Rahul Gandhi announced that he wants to quit the party as its chief, three state Congress chiefs have resigned after the party’s poor performance in 2019 Lok Sabha poll taking the total number of state unit chiefs expressing their desire to quit from three to six.
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The government has invited leaders of the BIMSTEC countries, which includes Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan, for Modi’s swearing-in ceremony as the prime minister. However, it has not extended an invitation to Pakistani PM Imran Khan.
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After Congress president Rahul Gandhi told the party that he wants to quit as its chief over the party’s abysmal performance in the Lok Sabha election, it fuelled speculations on the future of the party and its leadership.
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A tribal theatre activist, Jeetrai Hansda, has been arrested in Bharatiya Janata Party-ruled Jharkhand almost two years after he posted a comment asserting his community’s right to eat beef.
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Two days after BJP’s Smriti Irani pulled off the biggest upset in Lok Sabha election by beating Congress president Rahul Gandhi in Amethi, her close associate from the constituency, Surendra Singh, was shot dead at his residence.
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After the announcement of the Lok Sabha and the Andhra Pradesh assembly elections results, the next chief minister of Andhra Pradesh, YS Jaganmohan Reddy, met Prime Minister Narendra Modi. There are speculation that his YSRCP may join the BJP-led NDA.
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During his 75-minute speech addressing the newly elected NDA members of Parliament, Narendra Modi advised the MPs to exercise restraint while speaking in public and emphasized that his government would push towards winning the trust of the minority communities.
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The YS Jaganmohan Reddy-led YSR Congress Party, on Thursday, appeared on course for a landslide win in Andhra Pradesh parliamentary and assembly elections and swept 22 out the 25 Lok Sabha seats defeating the the N Chandrababu Naidu-led Telugu Desam Party.
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