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Former Mizoram Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan is likely to be BJP's candidate from Thiruvananthapuram against Congress' Shashi Tharoor.

Ranjitsinh, son of senior Nationalist Congress Party leader Vijaysinh Mohite Patil, joined the BJP in presence of CM Devendra Fadnavis.

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When asked if the river could help the Congress in the state in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, Scindia said the Congress fought for the farmers, jobless youths and the poor, unlike the BJP.

Soon after, Prashant Kishor, a political strategist, responded to Chandrababu Naidu’s attack and asked the TDP chief to instead focus on how to retain his seat in Andhra Pradesh.

Since its launch on Saturday, #MainBhiChowkidar has featured in nearly two million tweets. After PM Modi introduced it in his tweet, several BJP leaders and Union ministers followed suit, making the hashtag trend worldwide.

BJP is trying to hype their nationalist message that they were trying to protect the nation at the time of danger, Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said.

MGP leader Sudin Dhavalikar met Union minister and senior BJP leader Nitin Gadkari at a hotel near Panaji to discuss the political situation in the state following the death of chief minister Manohar Parrikar.

The 2010 batch UPSC topper resigned from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) in January this year to protest unabated killings in Kashmir and maginalisation of Indian Muslims.

Soon after the finalisation of the alliance, Krishna Patel's son-in-law Pankaj Niranjan Singh Chandel joined the Congress and was welcomed to the party by its President Rahul Gandhi.

Bharti, however, clarified that she won’t retire from politics until her last breath and would be fighting for the public .

Ajit Doval's son Shaurya Doval has been campaigning in the Pauri Garhwal region for more than a year now. Besides, Shaurya other candidates eyeing the seat include Col (retd) Ajay Kothiyal, who worked for Kedarnath reconstruction work and Rear Admiral (re...

Sources said the failed alliance is because of differences over seat sharing between the two parties, although the SKM leadership had said they will not join hands with the BJP until certain demands are met.

According to sources, 10 to 12 seats will be given to Shivpal Yadav's party - Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party (Lohia). Shivpal had met Priyanka Gandhi in a closed-door meeting in Delhi and the alliance will be announced soon, a source added.

Fadnavis and Thackeray will address elected representatives and party workers at Amravati on Friday morning and in Nagpur around 2pm.

PC Sharma said the visiting peasants claimed the convictions in the cases slapped by the BJP government have begun and some of their fellow farmers were recently punished by the court in Dewas.