The Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) president K Chandrasekhar Rao has not only claimed victory for his party in Telangana with absolute majority, but has also forecast that the YSR Congress (YSRC) led by Y S Jaganmohan Reddy would sweep the elections in Seemandhra.
The allegations come even as EC officials revealed that a total of Rs1.6b in unaccounted cash had been seized in the state during the run up to the elections.
Modi, from the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), made his final appeal to voters before the last round of voting on Monday in the world’s biggest election, which is expected to catapult him to power.
More and more voters have exercised their franchise in the five phases of polling in the state this time. The record is no different in the reserved constituencies.
The row between Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) chief V M Sudheeran and former state president of Mahila Congress Shanimol Usman has taken a new turn on Friday with the latter questioning his attempt to impose his stand on the government over the liquor policy.
A day after Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi suggested that the doors were still open for post-poll alliances with parties such as the Trinamool Congress (TMC), the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) and the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, two of them vehemently ruled out any such possibility on Friday.
AAP in the thick of a spirited campaign in Varanasi, strikes a chord among the poor
Mr Gandhi’s road show in Varanasi is a sort of “tit-for-tat” event after Mr Modi had addressed a huge rally in his constituency of Amethi, also in Uttar Pradesh.
Protests staged in Varanasi and Delhi against the EC
Polling started at a brisk pace in the morning with long queues of people seen outside the polling booths in most of the 25 Lok Sabha and 175 State Assembly constituencies in the region.
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