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Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls | BJP goes easy over age, turns to warhorses to retain power

Madhya Pradesh assembly elections: BJP fields 14 septuagenarians in M.P. polls, hopes to retain power. Party appears to have gone easy on age this time, fielding 14 candidates who are 70-plus, including 3 Union Ministers.

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Campaign by Jharkhand Congress evokes emotion, prompts thousands to join

Jharkhand Congress launches 'Aa Ab Laut Chalein' campaign to win back former members & public ahead of Lok Sabha & Assembly elections. Campaign has already seen success with over 1000 people joining the party & former MLA Geeta Shree Oraon returning. Coordination committees & Leadership Development Mission also formed to…

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Morning Digest | Governors can’t sit on Bills passed by House: SC; India bats for two-state solution to end Israel-Palestinian crisis in talks with U.S., and more

From, Governors can’t sit on Bills passed by Assembly, says Supreme Court, to, U.S. says Xi, Biden to meet next week to ‘stabilize’ ties, read a select list of stories from The Hindu to start the day.

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Vijayendra appointed State BJP president

With about six months left for Lok Sabha elections, the BJP high command on Friday appointed B.Y. Vijayendra, son of former Chief Minister B.S. Yediyurappa, as president of the State unit.

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Sardarpura Constituency | People say even BJP workers will vote for Ashok Gehlot; praise his government’s schemes

“Here not only the Congress, BJP workers too vote for Gehlot,” said Hardev Ram Bishnoi in Sardarpura constituency, a long-standing bastion of Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. “In Sardarpura, we vote for the Chief Minister and not just an MLA,” Mr. Bishnoi added, confident of a sixth encore by Mr.…

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BJP as a cadre-based party recognises and rewards discipline: Rajyavardhan Rathore

Former Union Minister and Lok Sabha member from Jaipur (Rural) Rajyavardhan Rathore, now contesting Assembly polls in Rajasthan from the Jhotwara seat, says that the BJP’s success in getting many of its rebel candidates to stand down from the contest is the realisation that “discipline is recognised and rewarded in…

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Just helped me double 2024 winning margin: Mahua Moitra on Ethics panel report

Mahua Moitra, TMC MP, said she will return with a bigger mandate in 2024 after Ethics Committee recommended her expulsion from Lok Sabha in "cash-for-query" matter. She called it a "kangaroo court" & "monkey business" & said the crisis helped her double her 2024 winning margin. Six members of panel…

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Bihar CM Nitish Kumar loses cool again in State Assembly, attacks Jitan Ram Manjhi

Bihar CM Nitish Kumar lost temper in Assembly, blaming himself for making Jitan Ram Manjhi CM in 2014. Manjhi responded by accusing Kumar of fleeing from chair when JD(U) MLAs opposed him. Kumar apologised for his remarks on women, but Manjhi accused him of being mentally unfit to hold CM…

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EC officials review poll preparedness in 4 southern States, U.T.s

Senior officials from four southern states and UTs review election preparedness. ECI officials lead meeting. EVMs, electoral rolls, security discussed. Deployment of Central paramilitary personnel to be decided after assessing vulnerable/critical polling stations.

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‘Total breakdown of all rules’: Moitra writes to Birla over NDTV’s ‘access’ to LS panel’s draft

In a letter to the Lok Sabha speaker, Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra on Thursday said that NDTV’s coverage of the parliamentary ethics panel’s recommendation to expel her was a “total breakdown of all due process and rules of the Lok Sabha”.

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Trinamool backs Mahua Moitra, says she is competent to fight the battle on her own

Trinamool Congress leader Abhishek Banerjee says Mahua Moitra is competent to fight her battle and he raises questions on why no action is being taken against BJP MP Ramesh Bidhuri.

The Hindu

UP court asks actress Jaya Prada to appear before it on November 17 for poll code 'violation'

The case was registered against Jaya Prada at the Swar police station here during the 2019 election campaign.

The Hindu

CPI expels Bhasurangan after ED detains him for coop. fraud

CPI expels former Kandala Service Cooperative Bank president N. Bhasurangan from primary membership after ED detains him for questioning on money laundering charges. CPI distances itself from leader, removes him from post of administrative convenor, MILMA. BJP terms CPI's action a "face-saving exercise" and alleges minister & party apparatchiks profited…

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Lok Sabha ethics panel recommends disqualification of Trinamool MP Mahua Moitra

The Lok Sabha Ethics Committee has recommended the expulsion of Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra from Lok Sabha due to cash for query allegations.

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Ethics Committee findings leak is breach of Parliament, alleges Mahua Moitra

Mahua Moitra stated that this is totally a breakdown of the rules of the Lok Sabha. Read further on Dynamite News:

Newslaundry

‘Organisational issues’: Sumitra Mahajan on BJP’s CM probables in MP, factionalism

As an eight-time MP and the former Lok Sabha speaker, Sumitra Mahajan is seen as one of the tallest leaders in Madhya Pradesh’s politics and part of the BJP’s old guard. We met her at her home in Indore to discuss her party’s poll prospects, the probable chief ministerial candidate…

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CPI expels former Kandala bank president Bhasurangan as ED detains him for questioning on money-laundering charges

CPI expels former Kandala Service Cooperative Bank president N. Bhasurangan after ED detains him for questioning on fraud-related money laundering charges. CPI demoted him earlier due to audit findings of ₹101 crore assets depreciation. CPI's action in stark contrast to CPI(M) protecting its members in similar Karuvannur Service Cooperative Bank…

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Ahead of key ethics panel meet, its ‘expulsion’ move against Mahua on front pages

Days after TMC leader Mahua Moitra and opposition MPs stormed out of the meeting of the Parliamentary ethics committee, the panel is said to have recommended her expulsion from the Lok Sabha. The panel is probing the cash-for-query allegations against her, and Mahua had slammed the panel chairperson’s line of…

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State polls expose cracks in INDIA bloc. Will the drift dampen national alliance?

The ongoing campaign and the nature of contests in the assembly polls in five states – Mizoram, Rajasthan, Telangana, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh – were seen by many as an early test for the cohesiveness of the 28-parties national opposition alliance INDIA. Almost four months after it was formed in…

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Evasion, silence, defence — the Trinamool Congress response to leaders accused of corruption

The Trinamool Congress’ response to leaders accused of corruption has been confused

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Sadananda Gowda announces retirement from electoral politics

Former Chief Minister and Lok Sabha member D.V. Sadananda Gowda has announced his retirement from electoral politics.

The Hindu

‘Cabinet reshuffle after Lok Sabha polls’

Legislator and Chairman of the Kalyana Karnataka Region Development Board (KKRDB) Ajay Singh said Cabinet reshuffle would take place after the Lok Sabha elections.

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I-T searches will not stop DMK’s poll victory in T.N., Puducherry, says E.V. Velu

Minister for Public Works, Highways, and Minor Ports E.V. Velu late on Tuesday said the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) would not be intimidated by tactics such as Income Tax (I-T) searches and would win all 40 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in the next Lok Sabha election

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Panneerselvam camp examining different options after HC bars them from associating with AIADMK

With the Madras High Court restraining AIADMK’s former coordinator O. Panneerselvam from associating himself with the party in any form, his camp is examining different options to face the situation.

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H.D. Kumaraswamy says JD(S)-BJP leaders will work like family to win all 28 Lok Sabha seats in Karnataka

Former CM is not bothered how many seats JD(S) wins

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