Telangana only state of the four where results were announced Sunday, which the Congress is winning. BJP takes Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.
Handout promises, from loan waivers to free power, flooded this assembly election season, with BJP & Congress vying to outdo each other. How they shaped outcomes differed across states.
The BJP leader & former Union minister beat Congress's Abhishek Choudhary by 50,167 votes. BJP rebel Ashu Singh Surpura, who contested as an Independent, came in third.
Meena Kumari contested as an Independent against her father, BJP’s Jairam Jatav, from the Alwar Rural seat. Congress candidate Tikaram Jully wins seat, repeating 2018 victory.
Vijayvargiya had voiced his surprise at being fielded to fight the polls. Meanwhile, his rival, Congress’s Sanjay Shukla, has repeatedly called him an ‘outsider’.
By evening, BJP had won 43 of MP's 230 seats, with a lead in 122 others. Congress, which emerged as the single-largest player in 2018, had won 11 and was leading in 53.
The uncle-nephew fight is one of the most watched battles of the Chhattisgarh assembly election. Bhupesh and Vijay were also pitted against each other in 2003, 2008, and 2013.
BJP’s Vishwaraj Singh Mewar, a member of erstwhile Mewar royal family who fought the election on his lineage, defeated outgoing speaker Joshi by 7,504 votes.
This is the transcript of Ep 1830 of Cut the Clutter, where Shekhar Gupta explains why strategic petroleum reserves are a national necessity & how India compares with China, US & Japan.
Tracked and wheeled variants, built in collaboration with Tata Advanced Systems and Bharat Forge, carry 30mm turrets, cross water using hydro jets, and are 65% indigenous.
American objectives are unmet. They neither have muscle nor motivation to resume the war. As for Iran, the regime didn’t just survive, it’s now led by more radical individuals.
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