Although, YSRCP and TRS have been in touch with opposition parties since the exit-poll results, the BJP has also been banking on the two parties to boost the NDA numbers if the mandate doesn’t turn out to be what the exit polls predicted.
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The exit polls of the Lok Sabha election 2019 have been released by various agencies, right after the seventh and the last phase of the election got over. The figures reflect that the BJP-led NDA is heading for a landslide win.
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The special NIA court, which is hearing the 2008 Malegaon blasts case, has directed all the seven accused, including the BJP’s Lok Sabha candidate from Bhopal, Pragya Singh Thakur, to register their presence in the court once in a week.
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Senior Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad said the Congress is not averse to supporting any regional party leader for the prime-ministerial post even if the Congress emerges as the single largest party. However, party spokesman Randeep Singh Surjewala differed from Azad’s views.
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United Progressive Alliance chairperson Sonia Gandhi has called for a meeting of the opposition leaders on May 23 – the day the Lok Sabha election results would be declared. DMK leader MK Stalin confirmed of having received a communication in this regard.
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Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that India had become the fourth country in the world to successfully hit a satellite in space with an anti-satellite missile. While the BJP celebrated, the opposition slammed the government but congratulated the scientists.
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The Makhanlal Chaturvedi University of Journalism and Mass Communication in Bhopal has decided to introduce the teachings of Karl Marx and Jawaharlal Nehru in its curriculum from the next academic session. It may also remove references to right-wing leaders from the syllabus.
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Even as farmers saw very low increase, or even decrease, in price for their produce, the growth on agricultural wage hasn’t fallen as much. This means, while farm income has fallen labour wages remained more or less the same, squeezing the farmer’s income further.
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In its report, the CAG said the new deal negotiated by the NDA government to procure 36 fighter jets was 2.86 per cent cheaper than the price offered to the UPA government in 2007 by Dassault Aviation.
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While responding to the criticism and clarifying the role of his department in the release of GDP back-series data by the Central Statistics Office, the NITI Aayog vice-chairman Rajiv Kumar said that the department was asked to look at the data before its release.
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