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Election Tracker LIVE: Replacing Union minister SS Ahluwalia, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday evening fielded Raju Singh Bisht from Darjeeling. Meanwhile, GJM spokesman and central committee member, Swaraj Thapa, resigned from the party in protest ag...

His decision came days after the Sangli seat, which has been a traditional bastion of the Congress up to 2014, was allocated to the Swabhimani Shetkari Paksha of Raju Shetti.

Sitharaman was addressing an ex-servicemen and intellectuals meet organised by BJP candidate N Ramchander Rao who is contesting from the Malkajgiri Lok Sabha segment.

Over the years, this seat has seen leading political heavyweights like former Defence Minister VK Krishna Menon and former Chief Ministers K Karunakaran and PK Vasudevan Nair winning from here.

Heaping praises on the 91-year-old leader, Uma Bharti said it was LK Advani who played the central role in bringing the party to such a position that Narendra Modi is prime minister today and added that he never craved for any position in his long politic...

The opposition 'Mahagathbandhan' Friday announced its seat-sharing formula for the 40 Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, half of which will be fought by the RJD and nine by the Congress.

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.

Earlier, Nath had said Singh should contest general elections from the 'toughest seat.' Bhopal has been electing BJP representatives since 1989.

Shah attacked Congress saying that the party has a habit of playing down on comments like Pitroda's on Pulwama attack as the personal opinion of its leaders. He alleged such insult to soldiers faces no action in Congress.

His wife Bharati has declared assets worth Rs 124 crore and their two daughters have assets worth Rs 6.5 crore and Rs 4.6 crore, taking the family’s total assets to Rs 510 crore.

Speculation has been rife that Jitin Prasada was unhappy with the Congress leadership and was in final talks with BJP president Amit Shah.

In Bengal's four cornered fight, the BJP has been projecting itself as an alternative to the Left, while the Congress is battling the TMC ever since Mamata Banerjee left the grand old party.

That the Modi’s BJP was sending a message with the list was clear from the fact that only one name was announced from Gujarat – that of Amit Shah in place of Advani.

The Congress is going it alone in the polls in the state. The Congress-TDP combine received a severe drubbing in the Telangana Assembly elections in December last.

I hope the manufacturers of fake campaign learn some lesson. They don't seem to be considering their brazen attitude, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley said.

Post-bifurcation, the TDP contested the 2014 elections in both Telangana and Andhra Pradesh with the BJP as its partner. The saffron party won three seats in AP and five in the newly formed state. Chandrababu Naidu formed the government in Andhra.