Bhubaneswar, 4/5: Congress candidate for the Puri Lok Sabha constituency Sucharita Mohanty has declined to contest the elections and returned the party ticket alleging lack of funding from the party. Mohanty, daughter of former Congress MP Brajamohan Mohanty in a mail to AICC general secretary (organization) K C Venugopal on Friday claimed that her campaign…
Lucknow, 4/5: The Enforcement Directorate has filed a money laundering case against YouTuber Siddharth Yadav alias Elvish Yadav and some others under the charge of suspected use of snake venom as a recreational drug in parties he hosted, official sources said Saturday. The central agency has pressed charges under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act…
New Delhi,4/5: The Delhi CEO’s office has approved AAP’s Lok Sabha elections campaign song after the party made modifications to it, officials said on Friday. The party had claimed on April 28 that the Election Commission “banned” its campaign song “Jail ka jawab vote se denge”.
Amethi, 3/5: Union minister Smriti Irani Friday said that the Gandhis’ absence from the electoral fray in Amethi indicates that the Congress has already accepted its defeat. Gandhi family not being present in the election fray in Amethi indicates that Congress party has accepted its defeat in Amethi even before the polling on the seat,”…
Thane,3/5: Former Congress leader Sanjay Nirupam joined the Shiv Sena led by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Friday. The former Mumbai MP had left the undivided Shiv Sena nearly two decades ago. Having been expelled from Congress last month for ‘anti-party activities’, Nirupam joined the Shiv Sena here in CM Shinde’s presence …
Hassan, 3/5: The Special Investigation Team (SIT), led by SP Seema Latkar, visited several places in Holenarsipur, and conducted spot-inspection, in connection with the sexual scam case of JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna, in Hassan district, on Friday. An eight-member team from Bengaluru reached the town in four cars. They visited the farmhouse of the JD(S)…
Kolkata, 3/5:Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asserted that Congress’ tally in the Lok Sabha polls will be an “all-time low”, as he mocked its leader Rahul Gandhi’s decision to contest from Uttar Pradesh’s Raebareli seat, “sensing defeat” at Wayanad . Addressing a rally in the Bardhaman-Durgapur Lok Sabha seat, Modi said that if Congress…
New Delhi, ,3/5: The Supreme Court on Friday told the Enforcement Directorate that it would consider hearing arguments on the interim bail plea of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in the excise policy-linked money laundering case on account of the Lok Sabha elections in New Delhi. A bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and Dipankar Datta told…
Bengaluru, 3/5: Even as a lookout circular was issued against incumbent JD(S) MP Prajwal Revanna embroiled in the alleged Hassan sex abuse row, fresh charges of rape have been invoked against him. The SIT probing the sexual harassment charges against Prajwal and his father, Holenarasipur MLA HD Revanna, booked the case against the MP under…
UP, 3/5: With speculation swinging like a pendulum for days, Congress on Friday announced the candidature of Rahul Gandhi from Rae Bareli Lok Sabha seat vacated by his mother Sonia Gandhi, while his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra refused to come under pressure to fight polls. The announcement came barely hours before filing the nominations for…
