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Patna, New Delhi: The Grand Alliance in Bihar has come to an understanding about the sharing of the state’s 40 Lok Sabha seats. Sources said the under the deal, Lalu Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal will contest 26 seats, the Congress 9 seats, the Left parties five of which the CPIML will contest three seats. The…
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Patna, New Delhi: The Grand Alliance in Bihar has come to an understanding about the sharing of the state’s 40 Lok Sabha seats. Sources said the under the deal, Lalu Yadav’s Rashtriya Janata Dal will contest 26 seats, the Congress 9 seats, the Left parties five of which the CPIML will contest three seats. The…
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Conrad Sangma said NDA partners are supporting each other in the northeast. Guwahati: The National People’s Party, led by Meghalaya Chief Minister Conrad K. Sangma, has announced that it would support the Lok Sabha candidate of the Nationalist Democratic Progressive Party (NDPP) in Nagaland and the Naga People’s Front (NPF) nominee in Manipur. NPP national…
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Bengaluru: The BJP and JDS have joined hands ahead of the Lok Sabha election and recently finalised their seat sharing talks, but the situation on ground appears challenging. The leaders and workers of the two parties — used more to being at odds — are apparently having trouble adjusting to being on the same side….
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Ahead of crucial assembly polls in the Himalayan state of Sikkim for its 32-member assembly — due on April 19 simultaneously with the Lok Sabha election — the ruling Sikkim Krantikari Morcha has declared candidates for all seats and the lone Lok Sabha MP. The party has retained sitting MP Indra Hang Subba. Chief Minister…
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Local women protested against Rekha Patra’s nomination Kolkata: Handwritten posters appeared in a few places in Bengal’s Sandeshkhali denouncing the BJP’s Lok Sabha poll nominee Rekha Patra, an alleged victim of torture at the hands of arrested and now-suspended Trinamool leader Shajahan Sheikh and his aides. The BJP pointed to the TMC for the posters,…
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Mahua Moita won Bengal’s Krishnanagar Lok Sabha seat in the 2019 election (File). New Delhi: Trinamool leader Mahua Moitra must overcome the challenge of Bharatiya Janata Party debutant Amrita Roy, the matriarch of a local royal family, if she is to win back the Krishnanagar Lok Sabha seat from which she was so controversially expelled…
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This is not dynastic politics but acknowledging people’s opinion, Siddaramaiah said (File) Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Sunday said giving tickets to the children and relatives of ministers was not dynastic politics but acknowledging the recommendation of voters. In its second list of candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, the Congress on March 21…
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Kolkata: The BJP named 18 of Odisha’s 21 lok Sabha seats on Sunday, after its seat sharing talks with the state’s ruling Biju Janata Dal of Naveen Patnaik fell through. Theb party has dropped four sitting MPs. Among those named are Union minister Dharmendra Pradhan and party spokesman Sambit Patra. Sambit Patra: The well-known BJP…
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Ahmedabad: The Congress-Aam Aadmi Party tie-up in Gujarat is hoping to challenge the electoral hegemony of the BJP in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls, while the ruling party is confident the opposition alliance will not affect its prospects. The Congress-AAP alliance this time aims to give a tough fight and stop the division of anti-BJP…
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