SP’s Azam Khan about to win overwhelming victory over Congress’s Kazim Ali Khan, titular nawab of Rampur. Azam’s son set to beat nawab’s son, Haider Ali Khan, in Suar.
For UP polls, AIMIM was in alliance with Babu Singh Kushwaha’s Jan Adhikar Party, and Bharat Mukti Morcha. AIMIM has roughly won 3.4 lakh votes in the UP assembly elections.
From a tally of two out of 10 seats in 2017, Congress is down to 0 in the Gandhi family bastion. Compared to six seats last time, BJP in leading in four and SP is ahead in six.
Haider Ali Khan, contesting for Apna Dal (Sonelal), is the son of Congress’s Kazim Ali Khan, titular nawab of Rampur, who is also trailing well behind Azam Khan in the Rampur seat.
Maurya, an influential Other Backward Class (OBC) leader and five-time MLA, had also switched his constituency from Padrauna to Fazilnagar for this year’s polls.
Kejriwal’s AAP sweeps Punjab with over 2/3rds majority. BJP looks set to retain power in UP, Uttarakhand, and is heading towards No.1 finish in Manipur and Goa too.
Congress’s poor run continues as it loses Punjab, an important state among the three it held. Rahul Gandhi says the ‘party will learn from this and keep working’.
Starting with Vijay Kumar Bandhu’s initiative, demand for OPS has now become a key issue in UP, MP, Himachal, Andhra Pradesh & Jharkhand and features in the SP’s poll manifesto.
Disenfranchisement by institutional fiat is profoundly undemocratic. The effect of the ECI's new documentary process in Bihar will tilt the scales in favour of the BJP.
Mini deal will likely see no cut in 10% baseline tariff on Indian exports announced by Trump on 2 April, it is learnt, but additional 26% tariffs are set to be reduced.
India-Russia JV is also racing to deliver 7,000 more AK-203 assault rifles by 15 Aug. These are currently being made with 50% indigenisation and this will surge to 100% by 31 December.
Public, loud, upfront, filled with impropriety and high praise sometimes laced with insults. This is what we call Trumplomacy. But the larger objective is the same: American supremacy.
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