The special National Investigation Agency court, on Wednesday, rejected a plea to ban Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blasts case and the Bharatiya Janata Party Lok Sabha candidate from contesting the upcoming election, citing that it is for the electoral officers to take
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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.
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Communist Party of India national secretary and Rajya Sabha member Binoy Viswam accused the public broadcaster Doordarshan of “censoring” references he made to the RSS, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in his scheduled speech.
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The Pakistan army spun the fresh statement given by the external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, claiming that “no Pakistani civilian or soldier” was killed in the Balakot air strike, and used the statement to “propagate” their version of the attack.
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The Election Commission has suspended a senior Indian Administrative Service officer, who was deployed as a poll observer in Sambalpur, Odisha for checking Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter there.
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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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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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Chief Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi, while dismissing the plea, told the petitioner: “You will never let this country remain in peace. There will always be something.”
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