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Buoyed by the win in the Kairana parliamentary bypoll, he said a public opinion and electoral results such as the bypoll victory will act as a "glue" for cementing a coalition for the Lok Sabha polls next year.

Accusing the EC of becoming a "corrupt body" and a puppet in the hands of the ruling party, the Sena chief directly questioned whether the CEC had any "control over the election machinery".

Asked whether Yogi Adityanath is responsible for the defeat in bypolls, Om Prakash Rajbhar said, "Government is responsible. The BJP should introspect about reasons of its defeat. It's up to the BJP whom to make CM. It's up to the party to make Yogi or Ke...

LJP chief Ram Vilas Paswan said BJP president Amit Shah agreed with his stand on Dalit issues and assured him of positive response.

Venugopal was addressing a press conference, along with Karnataka CM HD Kumaraswamy, wherein the leaders were announcing the new cabinet allocation for the state assembly.

Except for the victory in Palghar, which it won with the help of "trash-like EVMs", the BJP had lost all other elections across the country, the Sena said.

The CPI(M)'s Saji Cherian won the Chengannur bypoll by more than 20,000 votes. In a small state like Kerala, any margin that is in five digits is significant, more so for a bypoll.

Underlining his government's commitment to ensure the permanent closure of the copper unit in that district, Chief Minister K Palaniswami listed out the efforts made for it, including the 2013 action taken by J Jayalalithaa as then chief minister of Tamil...

Of the 27 Lok Sabha bypolls that have been held across the country since the BJP's 2014 win, BJP has won just five. But 10 days before the bypoll results, BJP President Amit Shah had spoken about the party's bypoll jinx.

In Kairana and Noorpur, the saffron party was again outdone by the caste calculation of the SP-RLD combine which also had the backing of the Congress and the BSP.

Denouncing the CM’s move, BJP state secretary Sayantan Basu said the creation of new post could be seen as an attempt at pleasing the bureaucrats.

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While BJP has won the Palghar Lok Sabha seat, NCP has bagged the Bhandara-Gondiya. 53.22 per cent of the 1.73 crore electorate exercised their franchise in Palghar, while in Bhandara-Gondia, 53.15 per cent of the total 1.76 crore voters cast their votes o...

His demand comes a day after Minister of State for Agriculture, Balkrishna Patidar, made a bizarre statement on the report. He said that the farmers who died in Mandsaur won’t spring back to life if the probe report is released.

Kumaraswamy will hold a meeting with representatives of farmers' groups and agriculturists to discuss loan waiver, farmer suicides, and other problems faced by them, officials at the Chief Minister's Office said.