Choudhary lost the 2018 polls from the state's Kharsia constituency after joining the BJP the same year. He was pitted against sitting Congress MLA Prakash Naik in this election.
In 2018, Congress won Rajasthan & Chhattisgarh, & emerged as single-largest party in Madhya Pradesh. However, rebellion by Jyotiraditya Scindia allowed BJP to form govt in MP in 2020.
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.
Independent candidate Karne Shireesha, known widely as 'buffalo sister’, rose to fame as a symbol of youth discontent against the BRS govt's handling of job-related issues.
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’.
The union minister beat his closest rival, BSP's Balveer Singh Dandotiya, by a margin of 24,461 votes. Sitting Congress MLA Ravindra Tomar came a distant third.
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.
A scion of the erstwhile royal family of Surguja, Singhdeo, often referred to as ‘Maharaja’ or ‘Baba’, holds considerable sway in the tribal-dominated region.
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.
Ventures by Japan, South Korea and Taiwan illustrate how the race for REE security is accelerating, powered by both geopolitical tension and industrial strategy.
ThePrint had previously reported that India & Russia are talking about 5 more regiments of the S-400, but no contracts are to be signed during the Russian president's visit.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
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