Politics

The polling station 32 in the constituency saw a repoll on Sunday and recorded a voter turnout of 42.14 per cent.

The law enforcement agencies this time have also recovered jewellery and precious metals, along with freebies worth crore that were supposed to be distributed among the voters.

The election campaign is completely banned 48 hours before the polling process. Polling in all 13 Lok Sabha seats in Punjab will be held Sunday.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister and Telegu Desam party president Chandrababu Naidu is meeting Congress president Rahul Gandhi at the latter’s residence in Delhi today to discuss possible tie-up in the post-election scenario. Naidu will fly to Lucknow later...

Thakur stirred a controversy when she termed Mahatma Gandhi’s assassin a patriot, saying those calling him a terrorist would get a befitting reply in elections.

TDP chief Chandrababu Naidu is likely to meet Congress president Rahul Gandhi in the national capital and BSP chief Mayawati in Lucknow on Saturday. He also invited rival KCR's TRS to join the non-NDA front.

Apart from Varanasi, the prestige seat of Gorakhpur from where UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath has been an MP is also going to polls. All 13 seats that will vote on Sunday were won by the BJP in 2014.

Patnaik has said that he considers BJP to be a greater enemy of his party than Congress, but chances of he agreeing to be prime minister in a Congress-led UPA dispensation appear thin.

Nalin Kumar Kateel's remarks come amid a raging controversy over BJP's Bhopal pick Pragya Thakur’s statement in which she glorified Godse as a patriot and also when Rajiv Gandhi has become the principle target of the ruling party.

Jaitley said as the seventh phase of election approaches to closure, the groundswell in favour of Prime Minister Narendra Modi is becoming stronger.

Shouting anti-BJP and anti-RSS slogans, SUCI (Communist) members said the statue of Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar had been demolished at a time when the entire country was preparing to celebrate his 200th birth anniversary.

The prime minister claimed that had the Opposition managed to work for the welfare of all classes after Independence, he would not have had to build homes, construct toilets and ensure road connectivity in villages.

The poll body invoked Article 324 of the Constitution to curtail the campaigning in West Bengal for the last phase of the election on May 19.

As the region goes to polls in the last phase on May 19, the BJP and the Congress have not only pushed their state leaderships to canvass but also roped in bigwigs to woo voters.

Duraimurugan's unscheduled visit has assumed political significance as DMK has refused to support the TRS' proposed Federal Front.

The Congress' allies may influence the party to support the consortium of regional parties if such a situation arose, claimed TRS MLC Palla Rajeshwara Reddy.