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Digvijaya Singh, along with his wife, participated in the rituals and sought blessings of the seers who were led by Namdev Das Tyagi or Computer Baba, a self-styled god man and once a close aide of Shivraj Singh Chouhan.

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The Congress is riding high on farm loan waivers in Madhya Pradesh and the BJP is hopeful that the works of the government and PM Narendra Modi’s image would help it win.

The BJP enjoys a strong presence in Hooghly and Mamata Banerjee is having to fight a fierce battle in Singur to send across message that her anti-land acquisition movement against Ratan Tata was justified and in the interest of farmers.

One of the most crucial battles of phase five will take place in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow, a BJP bastion from where Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh is seeking a second term.

The stakes are high for the ruling BJP and its allies as it had swept 40 of these seats in 2014, leaving just two for the Congress and the rest for other opposition parties such as the Trinamool Congress (seven).

The PM compared the Congress's move of choosing Manmohan Singh as the PM to that of a cricket team, which sends out a night watchman to bat when its team loses a wicket during the last session of a test series.

Pilot, who has led the Congress campaign in Rajasthan as the party's state unit chief, said the BJP's talk of mandir-masjid, Ali-Bajrangbali, or redefining nationalism, will not resonate with the people as these elections are about issues of development a...

Addressing an election rally here, the PM continued his 'mahamilawat' (grand adulteration) jibe at the opposition alliance and predicted that the bonhomie among the opposition parties was short-lived.

Sinha claimed he had told the Congress party leadership upon joining that he would support and campaign for his wife, who is a Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow.

The Aam Aadmi Party has fielded Gugan Singh from North West Delhi, the Lok Sabha seat reserved for Scheduled Castes. The Congress' candidate from the seat is Rajesh Lilothia.

The token counting was of no use, the TDP president said during a press conference at his Undavalli residence.

The AAP has accused the saffron party of indulging in horse-trading in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Wednesday had alleged the BJP was offering Rs 10 crore each to its seven MLAs to switch sides.

The AICC general secretary has accused the BJP of manipulating the video and "twisting truth" by editing the part in which, according to her, she had made attempts to stop the children.

Dikshit successfully led the Congress in the 1998, 2003 and 2008 Assembly polls, but the party suffered a rout in the 2013 elections under her. The Congress could not even open its account in the 2014 Lok Sabha and the 2015 Assembly elections.

Jaitley said the Congress was claiming surgical strikes now only to save political face in light of Azhar’s listing as a global terrorist.