The state home minister said the bill will have provision for 5 years of rigorous imprisonment 'against those involved in forceful religious conversion and marriage by lure or fraud.'
Ahead of results of the Madhya Pradesh by-polls on 10 November, both the ruling BJP and Congress have accused each other of horse trading & have claimed their respective victories.
The EC’s 30 October order, which cited 'repeated violations of the Model Code of Conduct' by Kamal Nath, was challenged by the former chief minister in the Supreme Court.
A total of 355 candidates, including 12 state ministers, are in the fray. The campaign also saw Kamal Nath being barred as 'star campaigner' by the EC for violating the model code.
The manifestos come over 10 days after the Congress released its poll-promise document — an 84-page booklet with different promises outlined for each of the constituencies.
Of the 28 assembly seats headed for bypolls in MP, vacancies in 25 have resulted from a rebellion led by Jyotiraditya Scindia, who defected from Congress to BJP this March.
Petrol & diesel prices have barely changed since June 2022, even though oil prices have fallen 28% since then. This has boosted profitability of OMCs and dividend payouts to govt.
Discussion about outcome of Lok Sabha polls continues to boil in cauldron of expectations only from BJP. Now reverse this equation, what if we asked about the performance of the 'loser'?
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