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NRIs can vote in Indian elections only if they are present in their constituencies, and it is not possible to allow them to vote from outside the country.

BJP will contest 47 assembly and seven Lok Sabha seats in Telangana and 15 assembly and five Lok Sabha seats in Seemandhra.

The campaign heat has overtaken the scorching summer in this coastal constituency.

K. Padmarajan, who has contested a record number of 158 elections so far, rightly calls himself the ‘All-India Election King’, though he has never emerged triumphant even once.

The MNS has nominated its candidates to only 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state, and eight of them are battling Shiv Sena nominees.

Some Congress members have said the inability of 43-year-old Gandhi, the scion of the Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty, to effectively counter Modi has led to its woes.

Advani was confident about the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning the Lok Sabha polls and said the next government will formed under the party’s leadership.

At least four hospitals in Jaipur and Jodhpur have announced they would give discounts on otherwise expensive medical treatments to people who cast their vote on April 17, when the first phase of voting for the Lok Sabha election takes place in the state.

BJP has benefited from a wave of public anger over corruption scandals and a slowing economy under the ruling Congress.