Politics

Thakur, an accused in the 2008 Malegaon blast case, is the BJP's candidate from Bhopal Lok Sabha constituency.

Former Assistant Commissioner of Police Riyazuddin Deshmukh, who filed his nomination as an Independent candidate from Bhopal, felt aggrieved by Thakur's comment claiming Karkare had lost his life in the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks due to her curse.

In another tweet, the SP chief hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi by tagging a picture of Khazanchi, a child born during demonetisation.

The delegation of Madhya Pradesh government participated in the exclusive business lounge in Davos to co-brand the state along with the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion, government of India, the RTI documents said.

Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu, who has been at the forefront of this fight, said democracy the review petition has been filed as democracy cannot be left at the mercy of some EVM programmers.

In the 2017 assembly polls, out of the seven assembly seats which fall into Valsad Lok Sabha seat, BJP had won four seats while Congress had won three assembly seats.

The eleven candidates are contesting from the 10 seats in Uttar Pradesh that went to polls in third phase today on April 23.

The third phase is crucial as it will decide the fate of the heads of the BJP and Congress, Shah, who replaced L K Advani as party nominee from Gandhinagar in Gujarat, and Gandhi, who is contesting from Wayanad in Kerala.

In 2014, the BJP had won seven of these seats, whereas the SP, which bagged five seats in total throughout the state, managed to secure Budaun, Firozabad, and Mainpuri amid the ‘Modi wave’.

The fight has become tougher in Thiruvananthapuram as the Left Front has also fielded one of their senior leaders, a former minister and sitting MLA, C Divakaran of the CPI.

Transfer of votes is important as in the third phase of polling, ten seats which are going for polling in UP constitute the potato belt, once considered as the Yadav stronghold.

Adityanath claimed that during Congress rule China entered Indian territory at will and play with the country's security. But under Modi's leadership, soldiers forced China to move back after a two-month stand-off in Doklam, he said.

The apex court on April 15 had given a categorical clarification that in its Rafale judgment there was no occasion for it to make a mention of the contemptuous observation that "chowkidar Narendra Modi chor hain" as has been attributed to it by Gandhi.

Congress president Rahul Gandhi claimed that his party is determined to do historic work for farmers if voted to power.

The Kendrapara constituency is known to be an anti-Congress bastion and has seen some epic battles and elected stalwarts Biju Patnaik, Rabi Ray and Surendra Nath Dwivedy in the past.

Arun Jaitley added that with the socio-economic profile of the country moving up on account of growth, it would be difficult for people to accept dynasties.