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CHENNAI: Leading the party in celebrating the AIADMK’s 52nd founding day, former chief minister and party general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami on Tuesday asserted that his party would lead a grand alliance for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections and win all 40 seats, including the lone Puducherry seat. “People are disillusioned with the DMK and the AIADMK will return to office again in 2026,”...

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Congress on Sunday launched the inaugural phase of its "Jawab Do-Hisab Do" campaign for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, commencing with public meetings and a "Pratigya rally" held in Bawana. The primary objective of this rally was to solemnly commit to defeating all seven BJP MPs in Delhi during the 2024 general elections. Arvinder Singh Lovely, the Delhi Congress president,...

CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai on Thursday said the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in the state would essentially be a fight between the DMK and the saffron party. Annamalai refrained from mentioning former ally AIADMK, which recently snapped ties with the BJP and is considered the main opposition party in the state.Recovering from an infection, Annamalai, sporting a mask, participated in the...

KALYAN: During a program in Dombivli, Lok Sabha MP Dr Shrikant Shinde indirectly criticized MNS MLA Pramod (Raju Patil), emphasizing the importance of meaningful action over mere complaints. Shinde stressed that the public elects representatives based on their work, and those who fail to deliver may find themselves facing the consequences of becoming former MLAs.On Tuesday, MP Shrikant Shinde was...

NEW DELHI: The BJP on Monday released its second list of 39 candidates for the upcoming Madhya Pradesh assembly election, which includes Union ministers Narendra Singh Tomar, Prahlad Singh Patel and Faggan Singh Kulaste, as well as four Lok Sabha MPs.By fielding such heavyweights, the party has raised the stakes for the assembly polls and underscored its determined bid to retain power in the state amid...

NEW DELHI: Delhi University students cast their votes for the DUSU's central panel.Voting for the Delhi University Students' Union (DUSU) concluded late on Friday and the results of all four central panel posts — president, vice-president, secretary and joint secretary — will be announced on Saturday.The votes were cast after a gap of almost four years amid heavy police presence and last-ditch...

KOLKATA: On Tuesday, the Calcutta high court declined to intervene in the panchayat election process in West Bengal. However, the court recognized the argument put forth by petitioner Suvendu Adhikari that there appeared to be discrepancies in the criteria being used to determine seat reservation for the 2023 local body polls.A division bench comprising Chief Justice Prakash Shrivastava and Justice R...