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Maninagar (GEN) is a State Assembly/Vidhan Sabha constituency in the Ahmedabad district and North Gujarat region of Gujarat and is a part of the Ahmedabad West (SC) Parliamentary/Lok Sabha constituency. There are a total of 249947 voters in the constituen...

Mandvi (GEN) is a State Assembly/Vidhan Sabha constituency in the Kachchh district and Saurashtra region of Gujarat and is a part of the Kuchch (SC) Parliamentary/Lok Sabha constituency.

Unlike its 2012 ‘vision document’ with detailed and ambitious promises, the BJP’s 2017 document comes across as tempered, with a focus on development without committing itself to too many deadlines.

"Looking at elections and the political system, I had felt it is enough. But looking at communal politics by the BJP, I felt I should stand in election. Also, the high command said that I should contest," Siddaramaiah said.

At a grand ceremony in Congress headquarters where Rahul Gandhi was officially declared the new party president, Sonia recalled challenges faced by the party in during her regime, “from the days when the party had government in just three states” to winni...

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Rahul Gandhi also made it clear that the language used by family loyalist Mani Shankar Aiyar against the Prime Minister during the heat of the campaign was “unacceptable” to the party.

Speaking to News18 while campaigning in Ahmedabad, Hardik Patel to several questions about his next political move after the Assembly polls, had only one answer, “Dhai saal baad [after two-and-a-half years].”

Bambhania said he could not understand why Patel was supporting the Congress party, despite it not clarifying how it would give reservation to the Patidar community if voted to power.

Aiyar, while speaking to reporters in Delhi, had called the PM a low-life and uncultured person, causing a political storm.

The former MPs accused in the case are Y G Mahajan (BJP), Chhatarpal Singh Lodha (BJP), Anna Saheb M K Patil (BJP), Manoj Kumar (RJD), Chandra Pratap Singh (BJP), Ram Sewak Singh (Congress), Narender Kumar Kushwaha (BSP), Pradeep Gandhi (BJP), Suresh Chan...

The controversy sparked off after Rahul Gandhi was unanimously elected as party president with no other contenders.

The BJP had swept the just-concluded civic polls in Uttar Pradesh, winning 14 of the 16 mayoral posts on offer.

“The BJP has only won in those places in the urban local body polls where EVMs were used. They lost where voters exercised their franchise using secret ballots,” SP general secretary Ram Gopal Yadav said in a press conference in Delhi.

On expected lines, the Congress listed out the reservation formula it has worked out after several rounds of discussions with the Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS), the body that has been agitating for reservation.

Ramalinga Reddy made the comments while facing questions from reporters about why Pratap Simha, BJP MP from Mysuru, was arrested while participating in a procession in his constituency for ‘Hanuma Jayanti’.