The bypolls were necessitated after 9 MLAs rebelled against Congress in March. Of these, the party has since won in 4 & the BJP in 2. Polls in the remaining 3 will be held on 10 July.
Ruling BJP had inducted Surenderpal Singh into its cabinet on 30 December & allotted him important portfolios. He lost to Congress’s Rupinder Singh Kooner in Karanpur constituency Monday.
BJP won 4 of 6 seats it contested in Bihar, Telangana, UP, Odisha & Harayana. It previously held 3 of these. In the first elections in Bihar since BJP-JD(U) ties ended, the party won 1 & lost 1.
Less than a year before the First Constitutional Amendment, Patel wrote to Nehru about Supreme Court rulings that had 'knocked the bottom out' of press control laws.
Bengaluru-based SSS Defence has made public its bid for a major foreign military contract, targeting UK’s ambitious SA80 successor programme with its home-tested weapons.
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