Politics

In Haryana, it is a battle of legacies of four prominent political families - the Hoodas, the Chautalas, the Bishnois and Bansi Lal’s family.

According to early trends, BJP seems to have swept all of Central and Northern Uttar Pradesh. The Mahagathbandhan is leading only on those seats that has more than 50 percent cumulative population of Muslims, Yadavs and Dalits.

The Trinamool Congress, which has dubbed exit polls as "gossip", had said as per its internal reports from districts, the party was comfortably placed to win.

Abhishek Singhvi said though the Congress or any other party had not received any reply or order from the EC on their complaints, the poll body has no logistical reason to reject the demand as it entails no extra time or burden on it.

Bihar’s female labour participation rate is the worst in the country. According to a 2011 report, just 19.1 per cent women participate in the workforce as compared to a national average of 25.5 per cent.

Using Suvidha portal the Election Commission will announce the results of polls of 17 parliamentary seats here on May 23.

Prasad managed to break the Congress’ dominance, but lost the seat in 1991 and this Communist bastion soon became a Janta Dal stronghold.

A close ally of former chief minister Keshubhai Patel, Zadaphia said the ground reality was contrary to the hype that was created around the SP-BSP grand alliance in Uttar Pradesh.

The Rashtriya Janata Dal leader further said that EVMs had been transported to a hotel where they were recovered in the presence of magistrate.

LK Advani, Arun Jaitley, Sumitra Mahajan, Murli Manohar Joshi are among the heavyweights who were dropped from the fray.

Advocate Joginder Tuli has sought direction to the police to register an FIR against Rahul Gandhi for 'accusing PM Modi of hiding behind the blood of soldiers and cashing in on their sacrifice'.

RLSP chief Upendra Kushwaha had on Tuesday threatened the BJP of 'bloodshed' if it attempted to tamper the EVMs and manipulate the election results.

Gowda said he too had written about the EVMs to the Election Commission in 2006 itself and added that he felt ballot papers should be brought back to avoid these complications.

Clashes broke out here on May 19 during bypolls which were necessitated after Arjun Singh, who defected to the BJP from Trinamool Congress, resigned as Bhatpara MLA to contest the Lok Sabha polls.

In the last elections, Bidhuri, a Gujjar, had managed to win South Delhi seat by a margin of 1.07 lakh against AAP's Devinder Sehrawat, who switched over to the BJP early this month.

Survey suggests that Pragya may emerge as the winner from MP. She is in contest with Congress' Digvijaya Singh.