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Election Tracker LIVE: Over 10 Opposition Parties Approach Supreme Court Over Use of VVPATs in Counting

The National Conference along with Congress is part of Mahagathbandhan, an emerging united "Federal Front" to counter Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Most leaders of both parties support this alliance.

Sharad Pawar has been tackling the family members very skillfully. Unlike other prominent political families, Pawar family has never ended up in any public spat till date.

Gandhi, in his informal interaction with the students, brought up the issue of the Rafale deal and reiterated his allegations about the pricing of the aircraft and the process.

Sources say that Lalu Prasad Yadav gets to pick three names as Jharkhand CM BJP’s Raghubar Das has ensured that the jail manual is strictly enforced as far as the number of visitors is concerned.

Of these 20, six are reserved for SC or ST communities while caste and tribal identities will be key in at least six other. Nine seats are along the border where the BJP’s emphasis on the issues of border infiltration may yield dividend.

As many as four Congress legislators have resigned from the grand old party and joined the BJP in past month suggesting that Operation Lotus is headed to retain all 26 Lok Sabha seats in Gujarat.

Earlier, Owaisi had said that the AIMIM will not contest for Lok Sabha elections in Maharashtra. But, the demand from party workers has led to AIMIM re-considering its decision.

While the BJP has had uneasy relations at times with some of its allies, many leaders feel the party president Amit Shah has walked the extra mile to ensure they remained in the ruling National Democratic Alliance.

Owaisi rubbished the claims made by the TMC that the clash between election dates with Ramzan would impact the Muslim voter turnout.

Addressing a press conference in Amaravathi on Sunday, the TDP chief said he wanted to expose the nexus between YSR Congress Party chief YS Jagan Mohan Reddy and Telangana Rashtra Samithi supremo K. Chandrashekar Rao.

The Naveen Patnaik government did not accept these schemes as it was afraid that implementation of such programmes will increase the popularity of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the state, Pradhan said.

The general elections will be held in seven phases across India and the final counting of votes will take place on May 23.

The Election Commission announced that the general elections will be held in seven phases and the final counting of votes will take place on May 23.

Parrikar was Defence Minister when the Rafale deal was signed with France and the Centre had told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that some documents related to the multi-billion contract have been 'stolen'.

Modi said the previous government had done nothing after the Mumbai terror attack in 2008 and if the people wanted a similar response to such incidents, they would not have elected him.