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Senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi said ex-speaker KR Ramesh Kumar had "violated" an SC order by deciding against the disqualified MLAs for allegedly defying the party whip.

Extensive discussions were held on the thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi, Nehru, Ambedkar, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Subhash Chandra Bose, Vinoba Bhave, Chhatrapati Shahuji, Jyotibha Phule, Sant Ravidas, Kabir and other eminent personalities.

Addressing workers of his party, the chief minister reiterated his demand for special status for Bihar even though the central government has already rejected such a request.

Sharma, an inspector-rank officer who resigned from Maharashtra police recently to contest polls, is accused of entering a polling booth in Chandansar in Virar along with few of his supporters and threatening officials present there.

Shivakumar was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in a money laundering case on September 3. His bail plea is pending before the court and the ED probe is underway.

Digvijaya Singh who returned to his residence during the staging of dharna, did not meet his younger brother and his supporters and left for a community function at Meena.

Since many women voters have no option but to carry their children along with them to the polling booths, the Election Commission came up with this initiative.

In Beed, supporters of Shiv Sena candidate Jaydatt Kshirsagar and NCP candidate Sandeep Kshirsagar had an altercation over allegations of vehicles being used to ferry voters to polling booths.

The by-elections on both the seats are being held after Khivsar (Nagaur) MLA Hanuman Beniwal and Mandawa (Jhunjhunu) MLA Narendra Kumar were elected to the Lok Sabha in May this year.

There are over 3.82 lakh voters, many of them first-timers, who fall in the age group of 18-19 years while over 40 lakh are 20-29 years of age.

While the BJP made the scrapping of Jammu and Kashmir’s special status a major poll plank, the opposition slammed the government over issues of unemployment and farmers' distress during electioneering.

The Raigad district comprises seven assembly segments - Panvel, Alibaug, Uran, Karjat, Pen, Mahad and Shrivardhan.

Yechury said the signs of the agrarian distress and near-stagnant rural incomes have been there for long but the Modi government is busy with trying to 'divide and polarise'.

The former Bollywood actor took a jibe at Khan for breaking down at election rallies and raked up his earlier comment where he had called her a 'good actress'.

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Mavji Patel was reportedly unhappy ever since he was denied ticket by the Congress from Tharad in the 2017 polls. Mavji Patel joined the BJP at a poll rally in Tharad town in the presence of Gujarat Chief Minister Vijay Rupani.