Politics

Abdullah had lost to PDP candidate Tariq Hameed Karra in Srinagar in the 2014 general elections but won the 2017 bypoll to the constituency defeating Peoples Democratic Party's Nazir Ahmed Khan.

Yadav has served as a minister in the Bihar government and was recently in news over his divorce.

There were rumours about Prasada joining the BJP after reports emerged of him being unhappy with alleged pressure from the party leadership to change his seat from Dhaurahra to Lucknow.

On Saturday, two months after extending support to Banerjee’s ‘show of unity’ against BJP, Congress president Rahul Gandhi compared her with Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

On how the Congress would identify beneficiary families, Chidambaram said there was enough data available gathered by state governments through crop insurance scheme and others like it.

Five-time BJP MP Argal, the mayor of Morena, had been dropped from the list of nominees in 2014 as well.

The accused constable Manoj Sen, who is posted at the Police Line, has been arrested.

The alliance was considered as a key strategy to keep its key voters, the indigenous Assamese voters who were fuming over BJP bringing in the Citizenship Bill, intact.

Addressing a public rally at Patparganj in east Delhi, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal called for people's support in the upcoming elections to ensure that Delhi gets full statehood.

The move, which has again brought forth internal factionalism in Congress, seems to be a last-ditch attempt to keep the party leaders in the financial capital united, before a crucial 2019 Lok Sabha election.

With more than 33 lakh voters, Malkajgiri is the largest Lok Sabha constituency in India.

Out of 10 Lok Sabha seats in Haryana, the BJP holds seven, the Congress has one and the INLD has two — Sirsa and Hisar. However, Hisar MP, Dushyant Chautala, has already parted ways with the party.

The Governor was referring to rumours about anger within the BJP over their Aligarh candidate, Satish Gautam. Some BJP workers even protested outside Singh's home on Saturday.

Rawat was named as the Nainital Congress candidate despite strong opposition in the party ranks including former MP Mahendra Pal and leader of opposition in assembly Indira Hridayesh.

The EC's multi-departmental meeting held earlier this month on intelligence exchange with a view to checking illegal activities led to the CBIC issuing a set of instructions for the upcoming elections.

BJP leader and Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad told the media that Gandhi's income had risen from over Rs 55 lakh in 2004 to Rs 9 crore in 2014 as per his election affidavits, and asked how can an MP witness such a jump in income.