Politics

Ashok Gehlot, the current Chief Minister of Rajasthan, was criticised by the Bharatiya Janata Party for promoting his son Vaibhav during Lok Sabha rallies.

DMK candidates Dayanidhi Maran, Kalanidhi Veeraswamy and Sumathy are leading in Chennai Central, Chennai North and Chennai South, respectively.

Out of the total 13 seats in the state, Congress romped home to impressive victory on eight seats, surprising both the SAD-BJP combine and the Aam Aadmi Party and improving its tally from three in 2014. It had won Gurdaspur in a bypoll in 2017.

Voting patterns in Madhya Pradesh suggest a clear divide in voting patterns in urban and rural seats. The last time this divide was visible was during the recently held assembly elections.

JD(S) insiders claim that if the coalition tally goes below 10 and chief minister’s son Nikhil loses from Mandya, the coalition will surely collapse.

Check who won and who lost, who is leading, who is trailing and who will be the new Chalakudy (ചാലക്കുടി) MP (Member of Parliament / Sansad).

Sidhu is under fire from his own party leaders after he questioned during electioneering why Bathinda why no FIR was lodged against the Badals, who headed the previous state government, for the desecration of religious texts in 2015.

Thakur has been at the centre of controversy ever since she was pitched as the BJP’s candidate against Congress leader Digvijaya Singh in Bhopal.

In 2014, BJP won this seat with a margin of 1,73,106 votes (17.9 per cent) when the BJP candidate Babulal defeated BSP candidate Seema Upadhyay.

Earlier in 2014, BJP won this seat with a margin of 40,322 votes when the BJP candidate Ram Kripal Yadav defeated RJD’s Misha Bharti in a close fight.

In the previous two elections — 2009 and 2014 — SAD won this seat. SAD’s Sher Singh Ghubaya defeated Congress’ Jagmeet Singh Brar in both elections.

The exit polls have shown the Bharatiya Janata Party climbing down to 71 seats from 80 it had won in Uttar Pradesh in the last general elections.

The curfew continued to remain in force without any relaxation for the fourth day on Sunday even as a total of seven persons involved in incidents of stone-pelting were arrested.

The 'battle of the CMs' has made Nainital the most keenly watched seat this election. While the Congress fielded Harish Rawat from the seat, Trivendra was seen on a whirlwind tour of the state campaigning for the BJP and constituency candidate Ajay Bhatt.

The social media post of Hanumantharaju shared by BJP to the media shows the picture of Godse and a vessel that supposedly contains his ashes decorated with flowers next to it.

The letter, which was written on behalf of the Diamond Harbour candidate, said that the PM during his rally address had tried to mislead the people.