Irfan Solanki has been in jail since 2022. He was convicted in an arson case in June & is facing trial in several others. His sway & Naseem’s emotional appeals helped her chances, say experts.
CM Yogi supervised the campaign for bypolls himself. His leadership had been questioned by many within BJP after LS setback. Party insiders, experts say Yogi has passed bypoll litmus test.
Karhal falls under Mainpuri Lok Sabha seat, which was represented 5 times in Parliament by Mulayam Singh Yadav. Akhilesh has fielded his nephew Tej Pratap as Karhal bypoll candidate.
The on-going election season is a war of slogans. And all of them seek to consolidate the Hindu or the Muslim, the caste, class or creed vote behind a particular political party.
Maharashtra, Jharkhand, Bihar, Karnataka, Meghalaya, UP and West Bengal among other states are going to bypolls. Contests in many seats are multipolar.
This comes ahead of annual RSS coordination meet with BJP & other affiliates from 31 August to 2 September. Picking new poll faces & not relying on 'Modi factor' for votes also discussed.
SP is looking for 6-8 winnable seats in Haryana in return for giving up some UP seats headed for bypolls to Congress. Bhupinder Singh Hooda says no such alliance planned as of now.
Mark Tully witnessed the BBC turn into an anti-India outfit and repeatedly shame and humiliate itself in world circles. Never mind. Tully lives on, and his old BBC lives on.
Premier David Eby, the leader of the minerals- and gas-rich province of British Columbia, spoke with executives at Tata Steel and Reliance Industries on a trade mission to India.
Authored by military historian Adrien Fontanellaz, the study reveals the drone strategy used by Pakistan & how they tried to hit S-400 air defence system, both of which failed.
No nation other than China can negotiate one-on-one with Trump on an equal footing. That’s why the middle powers who so far formed the core of multilateral bodies now feel orphaned.
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