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Around 100 Tamil and Telugu farmers to file their nominations from Varanasi on April 29. Farmers are demanding the constitution of a board and support price for turmeric. 

Modi is expected to hold a meeting at 9 am today with Bharatiya Janata Party workers at a hotel in the cantonment area. He will then offer prayers at the Kaal Bhairav temple before leaving for the collectorate to file his papers.

In a video from Jammu and Kashmir, National Conference president Farooq Abdullah was heard praising separatist leader Yasin Malik during an election rally at Qazigund in South Kashmir.

5 things that Priyanka Vadra’s shying away from challenging PM Modi means for Congress in Uttar Pradesh

It would be facile to say all cities register poor attendance during the polls while villagers enthusiastically participate in this essential exercise of democracy. Not all cities do that. Only a few do. And they have done it consistently for many years now.
 

The AAP has assembled a team which will try to convince voters that it is futile to vote for the Congress, while the grand old party on the ground is communicating how AAP Delhi government failed to deliver their promises

MyNation has reliably learned that none lesser than BJP president Amit Shah has asked Sunil Deodhar to focus on the last phase of the Lok Sabha election in West Bengal when Kolkata goes to poll. In fact, even today BJP's Tripura man is stationed in Kolkata, strategising to spring a surprise in the final phase.

While the Congress-AAP alliance talks may have been butt of jokes, the fact is that it is also reflective of indecision plaguing the Congress high command

It’s no secret that the Jarkiholi brothers abhor the sight of Congress leader DK Shivakumar on their home turf Belagavi. Now, in the latest episode of MLA Ramesh Jarkiholi’s alleged resignation, he minced no words in putting down minister Shivakumar

 

His remarks came in the backdrop of Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav complaining that EVMs were malfunctioning across the country during the third phase of polling on April 23.

Re-polling will be conducted in booth number 83, after it was found that the election officer forgot to clear mock poll votes from the machine before actual voting commenced.
 

Meanwhile, based on inputs from intelligence agencies, the security status of Thakur has been bumped up to ‘Z’ category. Now, 22 security personnel would accompany her round the clock. Her house too has been fixed with metal detectors.
 

Earlier, the biopic of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was banned from being released during the elections. The matter is sub judice with the Supreme Court as the commission has submitted its report to the SC after watching the movie and had made its recommendations. 

The EC also ordered three websites to pull down the trailer of the movie that releases on May 3.