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It is being speculated that BSP Chief Mayawati and SP supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav will share the dais at the rally after a gap of two decades.

Keshav Prasad Maurya rued that Akhilesh Yadav is bent upon 'insulting his father' time and again.

BSP senior leader and Rajya Sabha member Veer Singh came to Vijayawada on Sunday to formalise the alliance. Accordingly, the BSP has been allotted SC-reserved Lok Sabha seats Chittoor, Tirupati and Bapatla.

The Congress has been finding it hard to field a candidate for Bhopal and Indore, both of which have been held by the BJP since 1989.

Goa Forward Party chief and town and country planning minister Vijai Sardesai said chief minister Manohar Parrikar's health had deteriorated but the MLAs would continue to support him.

The election for 543 parliamentary seats will be held in seven phases till May 19 and the counting of votes will be taken up on May 23.

Congress former chiefs have the history of contesting polls from Karnataka. Way back in 1978 former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi had contested and won from Chikkamagaluru constituency, while Sonia Gandhi too followed the same from Karnataka’s Bellary in 1...

Tharoors aunt Sobhana Sasikumar and her husband Sasikumar said they had been long time supporters of the BJP and wondered why such a function was organised to welcome them into the party.

The SP and the BSP alliance had last month announced an electoral pact to fight Lok Sabha election in MP and Uttarakhand besides Uttar Pradesh.

Acting on a complaint by deputy speaker of Tamil Nadu assembly Pollachi V Jayaraman, the cybercrime wing of the city police registered a case of spreading false propaganda on social media against Jayaraman.

Addressing the Delhi BJP workers, Sitharaman asked them not to be affected by questions raised on the Balakot air strikes and urged them to be on the 'offensive' rather than being 'defensive' in dealing with the issue.

The Congress president claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi waived off loans worth Rs 3.5 lakh crore for the 15 richest people in India.

The claim, made in an interview with CNN-News18, comes as a major embarrassment to the Congress party and would feed into the BJP campaign that only Modi can give India a strong and stable government.

Addressing the media, Singh said that he was disappointed when Mamata questioned the credibility of the Indian Army after Balakot strike and was criticizing the PM'si intention of the strike.

Intensive negotiations were held among grand alliance constituents in New Delhi as top leaders of the formation sought to settle the issue of seat-sharing for the 40 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Telugu Desam Party chief Chandrababu Naidu said though the BJP-led Central government tried to beat him by giving less time to prepare for the Lok Sabha elections, he had converted it into an opportunity.