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The party, which had spearheaded the agitation over the CPI(M) led LDF government's decision to implement the Supreme Court's verdict, allowing women of all age groups to offer prayers at the hill shrine of Lord Ayyappa late last year, is pinning hopes on...

The Bharatiya Janata Party has nominated Pradeep Chaudhary, a two-time MLA as its candidate for Kairana.

Ahlawat claimed that the sex ratio which was 642 six years back has now now reached 942 in Jhunjhunu as a result of her efforts.

The former IAS officer said the main reason for not contesting the polls was to focus more on the mass contact programme.

Choosing a candidate for Haridwar is proving difficult for the party, the sources said as Harish Rawat who represented the seat in the 15th Lok Sabha before becoming CM of Uttarakhand in 2014 is not keen to contest from there this time.

Thikka Reddy sustained a bullet injury in his leg when his security guard opened fire in the air to save him during a scuffle with YSR Congress Party candidate and outgoing MLA Balanagi Reddy.

The Mallah community leader said his party would be able to pull lakhs of voters in Bihar away from the BJP.

Leaving no chance for the regional giants to take advantage of the caste factor, the party has made six changes in the first list of candidates.

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Irani had unsuccessfully contested against Gandhi in the 2014 Lok Sabha election and had lost by around 1 lakh votes, but was seen to have put up a spirited fight.

Pathanamthitta shot to national limelight as the constituency housing Sabarimala temple, which was in the eye of a political storm after the Supreme Court’s verdict that allowed women of all ages to enter the temple.

With Kummanam Rajasekharan contesting from Thiruvananthapuram, there will now be a three-way fight between Tharoor, Rajasekharan and former minister C Divakaran of the CPI.

Harvard-educated and UN peacekeeper-turned-Bengal top cop, Bharati Ghosh was once famously described by Mamata Banerjee as her 'daughter'.

People of India will rise up and defeat the BJP for this treachery, the Congress said.

Kanagaraj was an agriculturalist by profession and with his death, the AIADMK's strength in the Tamil Nadu assembly has come down to 113, which is five short of a majority.

The social media firms have adopted a voluntary code of ethics for the upcoming general elections, industry body IAMAI said.