Politics

Congress condemned the incident and lodged protests against the birth anniversary celebrations of Gandhi’s assassin.

About 1.52 crore voters will exercise their franchise in the eight Lok Sabha constituencies - Patna Sahib, Pataliputra, Arrah, Buxar, Karakat, Sasaram, Nalanda and Jehanabad - at 15,811 booths.

Sunny Deol is pitted against state Congress President Sunil Jakhar from Gurdaspur, which was represented four times by yesteryear actor Vinod Khanna, who died in April 2017 due to cancer.

Patnaik has said that he considers BJP to be a greater enemy of his party than Congress, but chances of he agreeing to be prime minister in a Congress-led UPA dispensation appear thin.

Jitendra Singh said, in spite of ideological and political differences, BJP's precursor Bharatiya Jan Sangh had offered unconditional and absolute support to the then PM Indira Gandhi in the war against Pakistan.

Polling will be held in nine constituencies of south Bengal on Sunday where an electorate of 1,49,63,064 will decide the fate of 111 candidates.

Mamata Banerjee also accused PM Modi of holding a rally in a ground owned by a person who runs a chit fund.

Moily said the third front experiments in the past with smaller parties heading the government -- whether it was led by V P Singh or Charan Singh or Chandrashekhar -- have been failures.

Accusing Modi of destroying the economy with his two decisions, he said had the PM taken the advice of Manmohan Singh he would not have rolled out demonetisation and the Goods and Services Tax (GST).

While the BJP chief blamed TMC 'hooligans', West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee hit out at the saffron party and said she would not spare its 'goons'.

Addressing a rally in Sasaram in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the Bihar chief minister took potshots at his arch rival for having written an "open letter" addressed to him the previous day.

The Congress and the SAD have been trading barbs at each other over the sacrilege incident at the Guru Granth Sahib in 2015.

Earlier in the day chief of BJP's Tamil Nadu unit Tamilisai Soundararajan claimed that the DMK was in talks with the BJP.

On the alliance between the Samajwadi Party and the Bahujan Samaj Party, Modi claimed that the parties, which he said used to abuse each other, will again be at each other's throats the moment results are out.

In a blistering attack on the Congress, Piyush Goyal on Monday alleged that at the time of the 26/11 attacks, Vilasrao Deshmukh had brought a film producer outside Oberoi Hotel, when there was carnage taking place inside.

Jagdeep Chhokar, founder member, National Election Watch, ADR claimed that as per the report, the performance of the government, measured on a scale of 1 to 5, was rated "below average" on top 10 governance issues.