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"We're With DMK For 2019 Polls": Sitaram Yechury After Meeting MK Stalin
The efforts to bring together a broad alliance against the National Democratic Alliance gathered steam today with Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury announcing that his party will support the DMK in Tamil Nadu. He made this statement after a meeting with DMK president MK Stalin in Chennai.
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Raman Singh, BJP's Longest-Serving Chief Minister, Wasn't Its 1st Choice
Raman Singh wasn't the BJP's first choice as Chhattisgarh chief minister when the party came to power in 2003 in the first election after the state was born. But with the BJP's main face in the state, Dilip Singh Judeo, seen taking money on video, the party looked towards Raman Singh, then a minister of state in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led Nationa...
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Supreme Court To Hear Petitions Challenging Its Sabarimala Verdict Today
The Supreme Court will consider today a batch of petitions seeking the recall of the constitution bench verdict allowing the entry of women in the age group of 10 to 50 years at Lord Ayyappa's temple at Sabarimala.
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Karuna Shukla, PM Vajpayee's Niece, Fronts Congress' Plan In Chhattisgarh
The BJP was taken by surprise when the Congress decided to field former Prime Minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla against Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh from the Rajnandgaon constituency in the assembly election.
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BJP's First List Of 131 Candidates For Rajasthan Polls Has 25 New Faces
The BJP announced its first list of candidates for the Rajasthan assembly elections late on Sunday. Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje will contest from Jhalrapatan, a seat she has represented since 2003. However, a number of sitting legislators have been dropped or shifted. For instance Kailash Meghwal, the speaker in the outgoing Rajasthan assembly h...
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Akshay Kumar, Badals Summoned In Connection With Punjab Sacrilege Cases
A special investigation team of the Punjab Police has summoned Hindi film actor Akshay Kumar, former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and former deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in connection with the sacrilege incidents in the state in 2015.
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"Did What Felt Right, Will Keep It Up": Yogi Adityanath On Renaming Spree
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has indicated that the state government is likely to keep up with its spree of renaming places across the state. "We did what we felt was good. We renamed Mughal Sarai as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Nagar, Allahabad as Prayagraj and Faizabad as Ayodhya. Where there is a need, the government will take the...
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Chandrababu Naidu Calls Meeting Of All Non-BJP Parties On November 22
Continuing with his efforts to bring together a united Opposition front, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has called for a meeting of all non-BJP parties on November 22. The meeting is likely to be held at the Andhra Pradesh Bhavan in Delhi, subject to the availability of various leaders. This announcement comes after Mr Naidu held ...
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Upset At Not Getting A Ticket, BJP Veteran Compares Party To Aurangzeb
At a time when BJP leaders are seeking to rename a few places associated with the Mughal empire, a party veteran from Madhya Pradesh has compared it to emperor Aurangzeb. Ramkrishna Kusmaria, a former minister in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government, has expressed his pain at the ticket-distribution process for the ongoing assembly elections in the...
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Upendra Kushwaha Slams Nitish Kumar After Police Thrashes Supporters
The tussle between two of BJP's allies in Bihar - Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) and Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) intensified today. Mr Kushwaha accused Mr Kumar of going against democracy, after the Bihar police lathi-charged protestors belonging to the Kushwaha community who were marching towards t...
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Janardhan Reddy Appears For Bribery Probe, Questioned For Hours
Ballari's mining baron and former BJP minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, missing for the last three days, appeared for questioning at the crime branch office of the Bengaluru police this evening in connection with an alleged bribery case. At around 11 pm, the police said that his questioning is still going on.
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Congress Wins Jamakhandi Bypoll, BJP Fails To Gain From Rebel's Absence
The Congress is heading towards a victory in the Jamakhandi assembly constituency in Karnataka, with its candidate Anand Siddu Nyamagouda leading by almost 33,000 votes over his BJP rival Srikant Kulkarni after 13 rounds of counting.
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Deepavali Bonus For Congress-HD Kumaraswamy, 4:1 Win In Karnataka
The ruling Congress-Janata Dal Secular (JDS) alliance in Karnataka has won two assembly seats and two Lok Sabha seats in bypolls that are expected to have an impact on opposition moves to forge a grand coalition to take on the BJP in next year's national election. The BJP has won only one parliamentary seat, Shivamogga, vacated by former chief mini...
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Congress Refutes BJP Video Of Kamal Nath Backing Criminal Poll Candidates
The BJP in Madhya Pradesh shared a video today in which Congress state unit chief Kamal Nath can be allegedly heard endorsing candidates within criminal records. Madhya Pradesh chief minister shared the video saying, "If this is the Congress' politics, the people are intelligent and they will decide who to make victorious by voting on November 28".
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Madhya Pradesh Congress Releases List Of 155 Candidates For State Polls
The Congress has released its first list of 155 candidates for the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. The list doesn't include either of the party's two chief ministerial probables - state unit chief Kamal Nath and Guna lawmaker Jyotiraditya Scindia.
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"We're With DMK For 2019 Polls": Sitaram Yechury After Meeting MK Stalin
The efforts to bring together a broad alliance against the National Democratic Alliance gathered steam today with Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury announcing that his party will support the DMK in Tamil Nadu. He made this statement after a meeting with DMK president MK Stalin in Chennai.
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Raman Singh, BJP's Longest-Serving Chief Minister, Wasn't Its 1st Choice
Raman Singh wasn't the BJP's first choice as Chhattisgarh chief minister when the party came to power in 2003 in the first election after the state was born. But with the BJP's main face in the state, Dilip Singh Judeo, seen taking money on video, the party looked towards Raman Singh, then a minister of state in the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led Nationa...
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Supreme Court To Hear Petitions Challenging Its Sabarimala Verdict Today
The Supreme Court will consider today a batch of petitions seeking the recall of the constitution bench verdict allowing the entry of women in the age group of 10 to 50 years at Lord Ayyappa's temple at Sabarimala.
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Karuna Shukla, PM Vajpayee's Niece, Fronts Congress' Plan In Chhattisgarh
The BJP was taken by surprise when the Congress decided to field former Prime Minister Atal Bihar Vajpayee's niece Karuna Shukla against Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Raman Singh from the Rajnandgaon constituency in the assembly election.
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BJP's First List Of 131 Candidates For Rajasthan Polls Has 25 New Faces
The BJP announced its first list of candidates for the Rajasthan assembly elections late on Sunday. Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje will contest from Jhalrapatan, a seat she has represented since 2003. However, a number of sitting legislators have been dropped or shifted. For instance Kailash Meghwal, the speaker in the outgoing Rajasthan assembly h...
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Akshay Kumar, Badals Summoned In Connection With Punjab Sacrilege Cases
A special investigation team of the Punjab Police has summoned Hindi film actor Akshay Kumar, former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and former deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal in connection with the sacrilege incidents in the state in 2015.
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"Did What Felt Right, Will Keep It Up": Yogi Adityanath On Renaming Spree
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has indicated that the state government is likely to keep up with its spree of renaming places across the state. "We did what we felt was good. We renamed Mughal Sarai as Pandit Deen Dayal Upadhayay Nagar, Allahabad as Prayagraj and Faizabad as Ayodhya. Where there is a need, the government will take the...
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Chandrababu Naidu Calls Meeting Of All Non-BJP Parties On November 22
Continuing with his efforts to bring together a united Opposition front, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu has called for a meeting of all non-BJP parties on November 22. The meeting is likely to be held at the Andhra Pradesh Bhavan in Delhi, subject to the availability of various leaders. This announcement comes after Mr Naidu held ...
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Upset At Not Getting A Ticket, BJP Veteran Compares Party To Aurangzeb
At a time when BJP leaders are seeking to rename a few places associated with the Mughal empire, a party veteran from Madhya Pradesh has compared it to emperor Aurangzeb. Ramkrishna Kusmaria, a former minister in the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government, has expressed his pain at the ticket-distribution process for the ongoing assembly elections in the...
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Upendra Kushwaha Slams Nitish Kumar After Police Thrashes Supporters
The tussle between two of BJP's allies in Bihar - Bihar chief minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal (United) and Upendra Kushwaha's Rashtriya Lok Samata Party (RLSP) intensified today. Mr Kushwaha accused Mr Kumar of going against democracy, after the Bihar police lathi-charged protestors belonging to the Kushwaha community who were marching towards t...
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Janardhan Reddy Appears For Bribery Probe, Questioned For Hours
Ballari's mining baron and former BJP minister Gali Janardhan Reddy, missing for the last three days, appeared for questioning at the crime branch office of the Bengaluru police this evening in connection with an alleged bribery case. At around 11 pm, the police said that his questioning is still going on.
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Congress Wins Jamakhandi Bypoll, BJP Fails To Gain From Rebel's Absence
The Congress is heading towards a victory in the Jamakhandi assembly constituency in Karnataka, with its candidate Anand Siddu Nyamagouda leading by almost 33,000 votes over his BJP rival Srikant Kulkarni after 13 rounds of counting.
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Deepavali Bonus For Congress-HD Kumaraswamy, 4:1 Win In Karnataka
The ruling Congress-Janata Dal Secular (JDS) alliance in Karnataka has won two assembly seats and two Lok Sabha seats in bypolls that are expected to have an impact on opposition moves to forge a grand coalition to take on the BJP in next year's national election. The BJP has won only one parliamentary seat, Shivamogga, vacated by former chief mini...
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Congress Refutes BJP Video Of Kamal Nath Backing Criminal Poll Candidates
The BJP in Madhya Pradesh shared a video today in which Congress state unit chief Kamal Nath can be allegedly heard endorsing candidates within criminal records. Madhya Pradesh chief minister shared the video saying, "If this is the Congress' politics, the people are intelligent and they will decide who to make victorious by voting on November 28".
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Madhya Pradesh Congress Releases List Of 155 Candidates For State Polls
The Congress has released its first list of 155 candidates for the assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh. The list doesn't include either of the party's two chief ministerial probables - state unit chief Kamal Nath and Guna lawmaker Jyotiraditya Scindia.
