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Nirmala Sitharaman, who earlier in the day participated in a function in Chennai, also avoided government car and escort vehicles and arrived at the airport in the car of a BJP leader, the party said.

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

The Lok Sabha elections will be held in seven phases from April 11 and the results will be announced on May 23, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora announced on Sunday.

Gandhi promised in Telangana the stringent Land Acquisition Act that will benefit farmers and said that the GST slabs will also see a revision once the Congress party comes to power.

The list, announced by party state chief Kodiyeri Balakrishnan on Saturday, features mostly local leaders.

Mamata Banerjee said India is being converted into a country of 'religious orthodoxy' and its secular non-violent fabric is being distorted.

Ravi Shakar said India may become like Syria if Muslims do not give up their claims on the disputed Babri Masjid-Ram Janmabhoomi land, Asaduddin Owaisi reminded.

LDF convener A Vijayaraghavan said the CPM will contest in 16 seats, while the CPI will contest in four.

The Congress president also attacked the prime minister for inviting the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) to India to probe the Pathankot terror attack.

The Congress and the JD(S) have decided to go to polls together and are in the last phase of finalising the seat-sharing arrangement.

Pilot said that no one can even think of questioning the armed forces and the Congress stands firm behind any action taken by them.

The remarks came after suspended AAP MLA and former minister in the Kejriwal government, Sandip Kumar visited the Delhi Congress office on Tuesday and met party unit president Sheila Dikshit.

The release of Rajiv Gandhi's killers was one of the issues raised by former CM J Jayalalithaa in February 2014, ahead of then Lok Sabha elections.

Delhi CM and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal said if Delhi gets full statehood then police officials will listen to MLAs and the people.

Panda, who had a bitter falling out with the BJD chief Naveen Patnaik, had recently said that he is willing to join hands with anybody "committed to tackling the severe problems that Odisha now faces".