The BJP candidate had resigned from his post of superintendent of Bhondsi jail & joined BJP last month. His request for voluntary retirement was processed promptly ahead of polls.
BJP is looking at a historic third win from heartland state. In near-repeat of Lok Sabha polls, exit polls again bit the dust. For Congress, it is back to drawing rooms.
Haryana's Karnal seat has been held by two BJP CMs in past decade: Manohar Lal Khattar & Nayab Singh Saini. When Khattar was elected in 2014, he had ended BJP's 18-year drought in the seat.
Saini’s rise in politics has been meteoric. Considered close to Manohar Lal Khattar, he had replaced O.P. Dhankar as Haryana BJP chief last year and took over as CM this year.
Vinesh Phogat defeated BJP's Yogesh Bairagi, INLD's Surender Lather and incumbent Amarjeet Dhanda of the JJP to win Julana assembly constituency for the Congress.
Nuh was in news after BJP fielded Sohna MLA Sanjay Singh in an apparent bid to polarise votes in this Haryana constituency that saw violence last year during a VHP yatra.
India's richest woman & chairperson of OP Jindal Group, Savitri Jindal was denied a ticket by BJP from Hisar, a seat she previously represented for two terms.
BJP is leading in Haryana, where most exit polls had projected a comfortable victory for Congress. In Jammu & Kashmir, pollsters have given the NC-Congress alliance a clear edge.
In Haryana, BJP has left Congress in the dust. In J&K, priority for the NC-Congress coalition govt will be restoration of full statehood, says Congress.
BJP's 2024 Haryana campaign is different. Modi's isn’t the lead picture on hoardings and after two terms in power, BJP is relying once again on its mainstay: upper castes & Punjabis.
Developed countries should take responsibility for their climate emissions. Instead, the instinct has been familiar: Protect your own first. This is now shaping the climate finance debate.
Rural ownership of motor vehicles jumped from 19 percent in 2011-2012 to 59 percent in 2023-2024, while urban rose from 40 percent to 68 percent during the same time period, study by two members of PM-EAC says.
At the Jindal Literature Festival, Maj Gen (Retd) Lakhwinder Singh reveals secrets from 25 years ago, speaking about the decision that outwitted Musharraf and changed the course of the war.
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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