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Denied party funding, Congress Puri candidate Sucharita Mohanty returns ticket

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…

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ED files money laundering case against YouTuber Elvish Yadav, others

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…

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Congress has already accepted defeat: Smriti Irani on Amethi nomination filing

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,”…

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Congress’ tally to be all-time low in polls; Rahul fighting from Raebareli sensing Wayanad defeat: PM Modi

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…

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‘May consider hearing Arvind Kejriwal’s bail plea due to Lok Sabha polls’: SC asks ED to come prepared on May 7

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…

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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Rahul to contest from Raebareli, K L Sharma from Amethi

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…

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