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BJP was locked in an intense electoral fight with the ruling TMC in West Bengal. Some exit polls have predicted the saffron party getting seats in double digit and the TMC's figure coming down out of a total of 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state.

Since 1989, the Bhopal seat is with the BJP when the bureaucrat-turned-politician Sushil Chandra Verma won and returned victorious on three more occasions.

Earlier, in a political signal to the BJP, Shiv Sena chief Uddhav Thackeray had decided to skip the NDA meeting called by Shah.

Once considered Mayawati's right hand, Ramvir Upadhyaya was also removed from the chief whip position in the Assembly.

Earlier in 2014, the RJD won this seat with a margin of just 5.5 per cent of the votes.

arlier in 2014, BJP won all seven constituencies of Delhi. It won the Northwest Delhi seat with a margin of 7.8 per cent votes.

In 2014 General Election, AIADMK's Jeyasingh Thiyagaraj Natterjee had defeated Jegan P of the DMK with a margin of 1,24,002 votes.

In the 2009 election, Lal Chand Kataria of Congress defeated Rao Rajendra Singh of BJP by a vote margin of 7.61 per cent.

Kamal Haasan's comment created a huge row nationwide and police complaints were filed against him for trying to create enmity between communities.

This was also for the first time that Bihar moved to polls without Lalu Prasad Yadav. The RJD chief, convicted in the fodder scam, is in jail.

Both the Congress and the BJP will possibly win one to three seats each, with Asaduddin Owaisi’s All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) expected to win one.

The Modi landslide will see the BJP alone crossing the half-way mark, hinting at a new dawn in Indian politics where nationalism trumps caste divide and localised issues.

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All the booths are from Kannur and Kasargod constituencies in north Kerala.

After spending the night at Kedarnath, Modi will fly to Badrinath on Sunday, after which he will return to New Delhi.

In a letter to the Election Commission and the local poll authority, the party's district unit said in such a situation its own candidate would also be forced to move about in a cavalcade which could lead to unnecessary confrontation.