Politics

The Gujarat high court's March 29 order, which Patel is attempting to stay, blocks his bid to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha Election

The Congress has lost one MP and 21 MLAs to the cycle of defections, while the BJP lost five MPs and 12 MLAs.

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Rahul Gandhi has represented Amethi undefeated since 2004, but faces a stiff competition from BJP's Smriti Irani this time.

He also hit out at key opposition leader in Andhra Pradesh and YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy for the corruption and criminal cases against him.

Stating that the disproportionality of the reaction of the Congress and the JDS raises a needle of suspicion, Jaitley asked why are the parties protesting if no politician or minister has been searched.

Urmila's political and social conviction, which Congress hopes will yield benefits, faces political opposition from five sitting MLAs of the BJP-Shiv Sena camp in Mumbai North.

Addressing a rally at Okhla on Friday, Kejriwal accused Modi of pitting different communities against each other and urged the people not to commit the "mistake" of bringing him back.

Among the few politicians who bucked this trend was BJP stalwart LK Advani who defeated superstar Rajesh Khanna in 1991 from New Delhi constituency

The Congress party has fielded Meenas, categorised as Scheduled Tribes (STs), in non-reserved seats as well. In all, of the 11 candidates declared by the Congress, five are from the Meena community.

After day-long meetings with partymen in her brother Rahul Gandhi's Parliamentary constituency Wednesday, Priyanka Gandhi arrived at the residence of local leader Fateh Bahadur around midnight, where the host had the weighing scales ready.

Yadav has served as a minister in the Bihar government and was recently in news over his divorce.

A furious Kumaraswamy has blamed PM Modi for the raids in Hassan and Mandya, and had warned he would use tactics like Mamata Banerjee against any move by the Centre of political vendetta.

Khalsa, who belongs to the SC community, had won the 2014 Lok Sabha polls on the Aam Aadmi Party's ticket, but was suspended from the party in 2015.

As an initiative towards gender equality, the 40 'Sakhi Matdan Kendras' will only have women polling officers. Poll stations will be decorated with art forms to attract voters.

When asked she would prefer to contest from Rae Bareli or from Amethi, she said that at the moment, her primary focus was to work for the party.