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Mar 28, 2021 9:03 PM

Mar 28, 2021 9:02 PM

Chase away outsiders and BJP like you chased away CPM: Mamata Banerjee

BJP trying to purchase people using money says Bengal CM. She also responded to Amit Shah’s claim of winning 26 out of 30 seats where voting took place by saying that outsiders cannot rule Bengal. “Have you (HM Amit Shah) entered the EVM? Why didn’t you say BJP will win all 30 seats? Let us wait for May 2,” she added.

Mar 28, 2021 8:23 PM

2 Kerala cadre IAS officers sent back from poll duty in Tamil Nadu

Two Kerala cadre IAS officers, Sriram Venkitaraman and Asif K. Yusuf, who were posted as election observers in Tamil Nadu have been called back by the Election commission of India to Kerala. An FIR had been registered against Sriram in a case related to the death of the Siraj newspaper's Thiruvananthapuram bureau chief K.M. Basheer. Asif K. Yusuf is facing criminal charges on furnishing non-creamy layer certificate with fudged income details to claim OBC reservation for getting into the civil services.

Mar 28, 2021 7:34 PM

Who ordered phone tapping of BJP leaders in Bengal, asks Shah

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday questioned who ordered the tapping of phones of BJP leaders in West Bengal, after the state's ruling Trinamool Congress released a phone conversation between BJP leaders Mukul Roy and Shishir Bajoria.

Addressing a press conference at his residence here, he said: "What our leaders talked about was submitted to the Election Commission in writing. But the question is who did it (tapping)? Who gave permission for the tapping?"

Shah noted that when the Model Code of Conduct is in place, any tapping should be done with the permission of the poll panel.#IANS

Mar 28, 2021 6:46 PM

Salman Khurshid urges Keralites not to break the trend of choosing alternate fronts

Senior Congress leader and former External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid on Sunday urged the people of Kerala not to break the pattern of choosing alternate political fronts LDF and UDF every five years and said the decades-old election trend has given the state its best possible advantages. very sensibly and judiciously, the people of the state have always ensured that the best is available to them between the two fronts, he said while addressing the media here ahead of the April 6 Assembly polls.

Mar 28, 2021 6:43 PM

BJP to win 26 of 30 seats in Bengal, 37 of 47 seats in Assam in first phase of polling: Amit Shah

Union Home Minister and senior BJP leader Amit Shah on Sunday said according to the feedback received from the ground, the saffron party will win 26 of the 30 seats that went to polls in the first…

Mar 28, 2021 4:53 PM

Newly elected US President Joe Biden in 'Quad meeting' had said that India, under PM Modi's leadership is strengthening... I urge you to save Kerala from LDF & UDF, & their regressive ideologies and make the state glorious again: Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Thrissur, Kerala

Mar 28, 2021 4:34 PM

TMC writes to EC urging it to revert to earlier rule on the appointment of polling agents

The Trinamool Congress has written to the Election Commission urging it to withdraw a recent order that relaxed a rule on the appointment of polling agents, and alleged that the EC had taken the step to help the BJP. According to a March 2009 rule by the EC, polling agents who are appointed by the contesting candidates shall have to be electors in the same polling stations or from neighbouring polling stations falling in the same constituency. However, the provision was amended recently to allow an elector from any part of an assembly constituency to be appointed as a polling agent.

Mar 28, 2021 4:04 PM

Two BJP leaders were discussing over a phone call the demands made for transfer (of officers). These demands were made in writing. There is nothing secret in this. The question which needs to be raised is that who tapped the phone call: Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah

Mar 28, 2021 3:14 PM

Mar 28, 2021 2:50 PM

After discussions with booth level workers & party leaders, I can say out of 30 seats in West Bengal we will win more than 26 seats. We have got clear indications that BJP will win more than 37 seats out of 47 seats in Assam: Union Home Minister and BJP leader Amit Shah

Mar 28, 2021 2:41 PM

LDF, UDF spar over free rice distribution in Kerala

As the ruling and opposition fronts continued to spar over distribution of subsidised rice during the festival season ahead of the April 6 Assembly polls, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Sunday alleged that the Congress-UDF had "misled" the Election Commission over the matter. The opposition was playing "dirty politics" by trying to block the supply of ration rice and food kits to the people,Vijayan said a day after the EC ordered to stop the distribution following the opposition's complaint.

Mar 28, 2021 2:15 PM

Our policy is 'justice to all, appeasement of none'. When we come to power, we will make a law against 'love jihad': Defence Minister Rajnath Singh in Kerala

Mar 28, 2021 1:40 PM

Mar 28, 2021 1:21 PM

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