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Election 2019 LIVE: Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha has given a complaint to the CEO of Tamil Nadu over DMK chief MK Stalin's poll rally remark, where he allegedly said that fire was opened on anti-sterilite protesters in Thoothukudi on PM Modi's instruction...

Ravi Kishan said actor-turned-politicians like N T Rama Rao and Vinod Khanna inspire him and he wants to project himself as a serious politician just like them.

Election 2019 LIVE: The Election Commission has given clean chit to PM Narendra Modi on his 'nuclear button for Diwali' remark at Barmer in Rajasthan. This is the third time that the poll body has given green signal to the prime minister. Earlier, the EC...

Naidu also sought to know whether the Prime Minister was an extra-constitutional authority and had the power to hold review meetings at a time when chief ministers of states likely to be affected by cyclone Fani were being barred from doing so.

Additional chief metropolitan magistrate D S Dabhi issued a summons, returnable on July 6, holding that prima facie (on the face of it) there was a case of criminal defamation against Gandhi under section 500 of the IPC.

Khattar, who is the first BJP chief minister of Haryana, also says that Congress's Nyay scheme has no shadow budget and can only be implemented if all other schemes are closed.

The state has seen a spate of violence in the first four phases of elections, which claimed the life of a voter who was caught in clashes at a polling booth in Murshidabad district on April 23.

In an exclusive interview with News18, the IITian, who once aspired to be an IAS officer, says that good politics will win over divisive lines of casteism and communalism.

Sanjay Raut said neither BSP supremo Mayawati, Andhra Pradesh chief minister Chandrababu Naidu, West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee, NCP chief Sharad Pawar nor Congress president Rahul Gandhi will become prime minister.

The Uttar Pradesh chief minister also criticised the SP and BSP, claiming there was no electricity in the state when the parties were in power as both had indulged in 'discrimination' in supplying power.

Raju, who returned to YSR Congress in March, has contested this Lok Sabha election from Narsapuram constituency in Andhra Pradesh.

Mamata Banerjee also said that no matter what Modi and his party does, the people of Bengal will never vote a party like the BJP to power.

The EC's response came on a day when Supreme Court sought a response from the poll panel on a plea questioning prosecution of an elector if the complaint alleging malfunctioning of EVMs and VVPAT machines turns out to be false.

Soon after voting began, a long queue was formed. The paramilitary forces, who were ordered to remain extra-cautious, due to security concerns and possibility of stone-pelting by locals, were surprised.

Trends over the years suggest that electoral fortunes in Rajasthan turn out to be lopsided. If one party gets majority in state or general elections, the results for the next polls gets reversed.

Meraj Khalid Noor, who heads the Awami Insaf Morcha, had announced his decision to contest the 2014 Lok Sabha elections against the BJP's then prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi from Varanasi. But his nomination papers were rejected.