Dimple secured nearly 6 lakh votes in Mainpuri, a seat she first won in a 2022 bypoll after Mulayam Singh Yadav's demise. Starting 1996, the SP founder won the seat five times.
Organisational infrastructure was limited in 2019 but today the party boasts of 1,005 mandals for 147 assembly constituencies, says state BJP leader Sajjan Sharma.
Gandhi now has tag of giant slayer as he had earlier defeated Kaur in 2014 parliamentary elections as AAP candidate. Outgoing MP is a member of erstwhile Patiala royal family.
The Jana Sena Party, which had won only one assembly seat last time, has registered 13 victories and is leading in eight more of the 21 seats it had contested in alliance with the TDP and BJP.
Devi Lal’s granddaughters-in-law Naina Chautala of JJP and Sunaina Chautala of INLD also fared poorly in family bastion Hisar, getting just around 22,000 votes each.
AMMK leader TTV Dhinakaran, who was sacked from the AIADMK in 2018, has outperformed his former party’s candidate. Political analysts point to support from the Mukkulathor community.
Despite all the attention that her candidature had garnered, Latha has lost to Owaisi with a bigger margin than the BJP's Hyderabad candidate last time.
Mayawati’s party’s political fortunes are growing dimmer with each poll as since 2014, Dalit vote has shifted significantly to BJP. BSP’s core Jatav votebank is also seen as drifting away.
Finance ministry says the proposed revamp will focus on structural reforms, rate rationalisation & ease of living, & will be deliberated upon in the coming weeks.
The project is meant to be a ‘protective shield that will keep expanding’, the PM said. It is on the lines of the ‘Golden Dome’ announced by Trump, it is learnt.
Standing up to America is usually not a personal risk for a leader in India. Any suggestions of foreign pressure unites India behind who they see as leading them in that fight.
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