Politics

As BJP president Amit Shah will be contesting from Gandhinagar, the chances of another national-level leader contesting from the state are very slim, a state BP leader said on the condition of anonymity.

Protests erupted in various parts of West Bengal after the BJP, in its first list of 28 candidates, nominated veterans and several defectors from the ruling TMC to take on Mamata Banerjee's party.

The BJP chief alleged that the Opposition was insulting the soldiers who died in the Pulwama attack by asking questions on the number of casualties in the Balakot airstrike.

The newly appointed BJP vice president plans to take a Ganga Yatra to assess the plight of the people living along the river and focus on further investment in its rejuvenation.

Raju Singh Bista's name was backed by Gorkha National Liberation Front (GNLF) and Bimal Gurung faction of Gorkha Janmukti Morcha (GJM).

Madhav made the statement when asked why Sarma cannot contest despite being responsible for 25 seats, while Shah is the party in-charge of the entire country and still contesting from Gandhinagar.

The Congress has already announced that Gandhi would be contesting from Amethi in Uttar Pradesh.

Though the optics of the Ganga Yatra and her striking resemblance to her grandmother may work for Priyanka, it’s no secret that that she faces a bumpy ride ahead.

It was widely speculated that Tomar, apprehensive of dissent in Gwalior where he won in 2014, could shift base to Morena, which was earlier represented by Anup Mishra — nephew of late Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee.

Congress leaders from down South have been persistently inviting Rahul Gandhi. While Dinesh Gundu Rao asked Gandhi to contest from Karnataka, the Kerala Congress has been trying to convince him to fight from Wayanad.

Pragya Thakur also slammed the Congress saying that the party attacks saffron forces and Hindutva by calling them terror forces.

Pravin Togadia also said that he may contest the upcoming elections from either Varanasi, Ayodhya or Mathura in Uttar Pradesh.

In 2014, the Jats of western UP had abandoned their old caste equations and hitched their wagon to a rising BJP. In the first phase of the Lok Sabha polls, this agrarian community may prove to be the key swing vote in UP.

The party named candidates for eight of the 14 seats in Assam while refraining from making announcements for the crucial Nagaon and Tezpur constituencies.

Actor-politician Kalyan, who is fighting his maiden electoral battle, filed papers from Gajuwaka in Visakhapatnam district.

Former RSS member Swami Aseemanand and three others were let off by a special court in Panchkula in the train blast case that left 68 people, mostly Pakistanis, dead in 2007.