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Tamilisai Soundarajan starts election campaign from Koyambedu in Chennai

Free vaccine, ration wouldn't have reached anyone if Gandhi family was at Centre: Smriti Irani

A file photo of Union Minister for Women and Child Development Smriti Irani.

Press Club, Delhi Union of Journalists condemn police action against photojournalists during AAP protest

Some media bodies on Tuesday condemned the alleged assault on photojournalists by the Delhi Police during an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) protest and demanded an inquiry into the matter by a retired high court judge.

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A photojournalist manhandled by Delhi police personnel during protest by the Aam Aadmi Party over the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by the ED, at Delhi’s Patel Chowk.

Rivalry between Siddaramaiah and DKS groups, govt will fall after elections: BJP Karnataka election incharge

Speaking about the Congress government in Karnataka, BJP election incharge Radha Mohan Das Agarwal said that there are many 'contradictions' within the government and 'rivalry between Siddaramaiah and D K Shivakumar groups'.

"The Congress govt will itself fall after elections", he said.

Government should give statehood, employment to J&K, says Congress leader Surendra Rajput

On Amit Shah's remark that government will 'think' about revoking AFSPA in J&K, Congress leader Surendra Rajput said that the Home Minister and Prime Minister should keep J&K 'aside from politics' and solve the problems there.

He said that the government should provide employment and give statehood to Jammu and Kashmir.

NCP-SCP chief Sharad Pawar calls a meeting of the party's parliamentary board

Party leaders Jayant Patil, Anil Deshmukh, Fauzia Khan, Rajesh Tope, Rakhi Jadhav, Rohit Pawar, Naseem Siddiqui and other leaders take part in the meeting, ANI reported.

Delhi Ministers Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj protest at Delhi Assembly against Kejriwal's arrest

Delhi Ministers Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj and AAP MLAs protest at Delhi Assembly against CM Arvind Kejriwal's arrest by ED.

VBA to contest independently, announces candidates on 8 seats

Prakash Ambedkar's Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi (VBA) claimed 9 Lok Sabha seats and announced candidates on 8 seats. VBA will contest independently and not be a part of MVA.

Delhi BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva, others, detained by Delhi police after protesting against Kejriwal

Delhi BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva along with the party workers detained by the police after protesting outside the Delhi Assembly demanding the resignation of Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

Not in an 'option-less' situation, will wait for one week and decide: Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam tells party leadership

Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam in a Mumbai press conference said that he not 'option-less' if the choice of leaving the party comes. He further said that he will wait for a week for the party to decide about the 'feelings they have for their workers' and act accordingly.

He also said that out of Mumbai's 6 Lok Sabha seats, one is left for Congress like 'charity'.

Ab jo hoga, aar paar hoga.

Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam

Naveen Patnaik announces party candidates for upcoming Assembly polls; here are the names

BJD's 9 Lok Sabha candidates:

Pranab Prakash Das to contest from Sambalpur

Lambodhar Nial from Kalahandi

Manmath Routray from Bhubaneswar

Anshuman Mohanty from Kendrapara

Paradip Majhi from Nabarangpur

Dilip Tirkey from Sundargarh

Sudam Marandi from Mayurbhanj

Ranjita Sahu from Aska

Kaushalya Hikaka from Koraput

SP declares Imam Mohibullah Nadvi as its candidate from the Rampur Lok Sabha seat

Samajwadi Party declares Imam Mohibullah Nadvi as its candidate from the Rampur Lok Sabha seat in Uttar Pradesh, ANI reported.

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Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, PM Narendra Modi, AAP lader Atishi, TN CM M K Stalin and NCP supremo Sharad Pawar.

Lingayat seers led by Fakira Dingaleshwar Swamiji of Shirahatti ask BJP high command to change ticket for Pralhad Joshi

Lingayat seers led by Fakira Dingaleshwar Swamiji of Shirahatti have asked BJP high command to change ticket for Pralhad Joshi from Dharwad constituency before March 31. Seers have alleged that he insulted seers, suppressed Lingayats and other community members.

'I urge Prakash Ambedkar not to take a step that would help fascist forces': NCP (SP) leader Jitendra Awhad

BJP's Jabalpur candidate Ashish Dubey files nomination in the presence of MP CM Mohan Yadav

Delhi Assembly: Speaker has adjourned the House till Monday 11 am after 'lot of commotion'

SP vs SP? Samajwadi Party leader Ruchi Vira files her nomination from Moradabad constituency — the same seat that Samajwadi Party leader ST Hasan had filed his nomination for yesterday

A Raja files his nomination as the DMK candidate from Nilgiris constituency

Congress candidate Kawasi Lakhma files his nomination from from Chhattisgarh's Bastar in the presence of former CM Bhupesh Baghel

Maulana Mohibullah Nadvi, the Imam of Parliament Street Mosque in Delhi, files his nomination from the Rampur constituency in Uttar Pradesh as SP candidate

'Congress will win all the 6 Assembly seats (where by-elections are being held)...': Himachal Pradesh CM Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu

Election Commission of India issues show cause notices to BJP MP Dilip Ghosh and Congress leader Supriya Shrinate for their remarks against West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee and BJP's Lok Sabha candidate Kangana Ranaut respectively.

AAP's lone Lok Sabha member and Jalandhar MP Sushil Kumar Rinku joins BJP

Union Minister Anurag Thakur rallies BJP party workers in Udhampur, Jammu and Kashmir; claims AFSPA not needed in J&K as BJP has 'ended militancy in the Union Territory'

'AAP is trying to save democracy. On the other hand, these people have surrendered before a dictator'

Punjab Minister Harpal Singh Cheema slammed his former party colleagues Sushil Kumar Rinku and Sheetal Angural for joining BJP and also said they had 'betrayed the people of Punjab'.

Telangana CM Revanth Reddy arrives at the Congress headquarters for the party's CEC meeting.

BJP leader Aparajita Sarangi welcomed by party workers in Bhubaneswar. She has been fielded by the party from Bhubaneswar Lok Sabha constituency

Delhi High Court issues notice to Enforcement Directorate on plea moved by CM Arvind Kejriwal raising issues of legality and validity regarding the arrest and remand.

The bench of Justice Swarna Kanta Sharma stated that the respondent/ED has to be granted an opportunity to file a reply, as an opportunity for effective representation, and declining this opportunity would amount to denial of fair hearing as well as violation of one of the principles of natural justice i.e., audi-alteram partem, which is applicable to both the parties and not one. Court further stated that any release order from custody will amount to enlarging the accused/petitioner/Arvind Kejriwal on bail or interim bail, as an interim measure. The writ jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India is not a ready substitute for recourse to the remedy of bail under Section 439 of the CrPC ordinarily. (ANI)

Congress CEC meeting for the state of Jharkhand underway at the party headquarters in Delhi.

We will have a historic win and Murari Lal Meena will be MP from Dausa: Sachin Pilot

BJP releases its list of candidates for the Andhra Pradesh Assembly elections; here are the names

N Eswara Rao from Etcheria; P Vishnu Kumar Raju from Visakhapatnam North; Pangi Rajarao from Araku Valley (ST); M Shiva Krishnam Raju; Kamineni Srinivas Rao from Kaikalur; Y S Chowdary from Vijaywada West; Bojja Roshanna from badvel (SC); C Adinarayana Reddy from Jammalamadugu; P V Parthasarathi from Adoni and finally Y Satya Kumar from Dharmavaram.

BJP fields Nayab Singh Saini from Karnal, Haryana

Navneet Rana fielded from Amravati constituency in Maharashtra by BJP

Govind Karjol fielded from Chitradurga constituency in Karnataka by BJP

Congress workers upset over candidature of Danish Ali from Amroha (Uttar Pradesh) for Lok Sabha elections. The suspended BSP MP had joined the Congress recently

Congress Central Election Committee has approved the names of 18 candidates in today's meeting: Sources (ANI)

Next CEC meeting will be held on March 31, sources added.

BJP appoints party election incharges and co-incharges for several states

Former Haryana BJP president OP Dhankhar appointed as incharge of Delhi. Dr Dinesh Sharma appointed as incharge of Maharashtra. Sanjiv Chaurasia appointed as incharge of Uttar Pradesh.

'AAP used money looted in liquor scam in Goa and Punjab election campaigns': Smriti Irani

'We had detailed discussions on many seats of Jharkhand': J'khand Congress in-charge Ghulam Ahmad Mir after Congress' CEC meeting. Names are yet to be announced.

'Stalin has been saying that we are in an illegal relationship with the BJP': AIADMK general secy Edappadi K. Palaniswami, while campaigning in Tenkasi, TN

Andhra Pradesh CM YS Jagan Mohan Reddy hits out at TDP's Chandrababu Naidu and and AP BJP chief D Purandeswari over CBI drug bust at Visakhapatnam port

BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawalla compares Arvind Kejriwal to 'Pablo Escobar (who) used to run his operations from inside the jail'

Pramod Boro, UPPL chief, to file FIR against Congress for viral video of man sleeping on a bed with a stack of notes that tweets suggested was him

Boro said, "I am shocked at how irresponsible Congress and its leaders are. They don't even have time to check and verify whether it is real news or not, whether it is coming from some authentic sources or not. So how are they doing their politics at the national level? I am very surprised. So I condemn their behaviour and attitude. I am going to file an FIR against them and I have already complained to the Election Commission to take action against them..."

Congress MP KC Venugopal slams BJP's 'vendetta politics'