Politics

As the voting exercise began by 7 am, women outnumbered men in a handful of polling stations at Vikravandi in Villupuram District and at Nanguneri in Tirunelveli district.

National security has been the major plank for the BJP in the assembly election campaign, just like in the Lok Sabha elections earlier this year.

Among the states ruled by the BJP and its allies, the maximum 11 seats will have bypolls in Uttar Pradesh, followed by six in Gujarat, five in Bihar, four in Assam and two each in Himachal Pradesh and Tamil Nadu.

PDP's state general secretary Faqir Chand Bhagat, former IAS officer GR Bhagat and former KAS officer Kuldeep Khajuria joined the BJP along with over 500 others in the presence of its national vice president Avinash Rai Khanna.

Kapil Sibal said that it was because of the Congress that Pakistan's integral part was split from it. This happened under the Congress rule. He added that Congress should be praised for it and the BJP doesn't have the guts to do that.

Bollywood actor Salman Khan's aide Gurmeet Singh, popularly known as Shera, joined Shiv Sena in the presence of party chief Uddhav Thackeray and Yuva Sena President, Aditya Thackeray at their residence Matoshree.

Confident of returning to power for a second term in office, Khattar said his government ran the state untainted by corruption or bias towards any caste.

Tewari said public money is no more safe in Indian banks and PMC scam has left thousands of depositors in a state of shock.

It is a four-cornered contest with the BJP, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Samajwadi Party (SP) and Congress fielding candidates on all 11 assembly seats.

Sharad Pawar also trashed senior Congress leader Sushilkumar Shinde's comment that the latter's party and the NCP have become "tired". Shinde may himself have grown "tired", he remarked.

While the party feels Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s 'sabka saath, sabka vikas' slogan has found resonance in the community, detractors say the spectre of NRC and the waning influence of other parties could be critical factors.

The bypolls to 15 of the 17 seats represented by disqualified MLAs, which the EC had earlier decided to defer until the apex court decides on their plea challenging disqualification, has now been scheduled for December 5.

'There is a section Truth vs. Propaganda. In this section the people will be told the truth about an issue so that they can differentiate between facts and falsehoods,' Kejriwal said.

Ganguly said he has heard these political questions before too when he met West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

Tripathi, MLA from Maihar, and BJP MLA Sharad Kol from Beohari had broken ranks with the party and voted in favour of the Criminal Law (Madhya Pradesh Amendment) Bill 2019 tabled in the Assembly by the Kamal Nath government.

The average worth of assets per candidate in Haryana is Rs 4.31 crore, which is a slight decline from Rs 4.54 crore in 2014.