Politics

This bypoll could also witness the debut from new entrants like TTV Dinakaran and Kamal Haasan.

The Congress and other opposition parties demanded in the Rajya Sabha that the triple talaq bill be sent to a select committee for further scrutiny.

There are 13,816 polling booths in the national capital. The BJP has appointed five panch pramukh at each polling booth, totalling around 69,000.

Rahul Gandhi said he discussed the political situation in the region and other matters of common interest with Bhutan PM Lotay Tshering. He also said he is looking forward to continue the dialogue in future.

By using the slogan 'Chowkidar Chor Hai', the editorial said Thackeray was calling himself and his party ministers thieves.

TRS chief KCR has been meeting leaders like Mamata Banerjee and Naveen Patnaik to push for his non-BJP and non-Congress federal front.

The Congress leader's remarks came amid a row over Lord Hanuman's caste triggered by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath when he called the deity a Dalit during a rally in the run-up to the Rajasthan Assembly elections.

The other big highlight of the survey is that BJP is expected to win Odisha by bagging 15 of the 21 Lok Sabha seats.

Senior Congress leaders, including Dinesh Gundu Rao and minister DK Shivakumar, have said that they will meet party colleagues who are disappointed and exuded confidence that the Congress-JD(S) coalition government is stable.

BJP spokesperson GVL Narasimha Rao said that the efforts of TRS shows that not all parties accept Congress as a pivot, and further claims the opposition unity as a bogus claim.

Kanhaiya Kumar said that the worst sufferers were the ones who voted for the first time in 2014. He criticised Prime Minister Modi on various issues including the lack of jobs, religious intolerance and agrarian distress.

Senior Congress leader Salman Khurshid expressed optimism over forging of the grand alliance in the state and said it will be the best thing that can happen to the Indian politics.

The Telangana Chief Minister said he firmly believes there should be an alternative to the Congress and the BJP.

Apart from the six Lok Sabha seats in Bihar, the Ram Vilas Paswan-led LJP is also likely to get one seat in either Uttar Pradesh or Jharkhand, and a Rajya Sabha berth,

The Trinamool government had earlier denied permission for the political rallies, saying they could trigger communal clashes in the state.

A Lok Sabha MP from Bihar who had defeated RJD president Lalu Prasad's wife Rabri Devi in 2014 general elections, Rudy has held organisational responsibilities in the past as well and was also a general secretary, a key position.