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UDF’s Adoor Prakash broke the coalition’s 30-year jinx after he won against LDF’s A Sampath by a margin of 38,247 votes.

 

In 2019 Lok Sabha elections, fierce opponents of 25 years, SP and BSP came together to stop the BJP juggernaut in UP after two successive blows of 2014 Lok Sabha and 2017 Vidhan Sabha elections. 

Chennai Central sees a clash between Pattali Makkal Katchi’s Sam Paul against Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam’s Dayanidhi Maran. Will the voters favour debutant Sam Paul over Maran, who has won thrice?

Counting of votes for Lok Sabha polls is all set to begin at 8 AM on Thursday. This year over 8,000 candidates were in the fray for 542 seats. The election was conducted in seven phases where 67.11% of the 90.99 crore electors had cast their vote. 

The Sonipat seat is one of the two Lok Sabha seats that the LSP is contesting from Haryana as part of its alliance with the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP). The BSP is contesting from the remaining eight seats

The BJP roped in former Left leaders who had joined BJP for booth management in most areas. Santanu Chakraborty, son of former CPI(M) MP from Bashirhat Ajay Chakraborty, was one of them.

Popular talk show host and comedian Ellen DeGeneres tweeted in response to Dutee Chand coming out as gay. DeGeneres says that she is proud of Chand.

On Monday UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath recommended the governor to sack Om Prakash Rajbhar from cabinet for his persistent anti-BJP stance.

The BJP had hoped to compensate for the loss of seats to the SP-BSP gathbandhan in Uttar Pradesh (UP) by breaking new ground in Odisha and West Bengal (WB)

While Uttar Pradesh had emerged as the biggest headache for the BJP as it was faced with the mammoth caste equation forged by the SP and BSP coming together, it was made even more formidable by the addition of the Muslim votes to this list. An average of the exit polls gives BJP seats in UP in the range of 41 to 44 seats

Dutee Chand said, “I have found someone who is my soulmate. I believe everyone should have the freedom to be with whoever they decide they want to be with. I have always supported the rights of those who want to be in a same-sex relationship"

Karnataka chief minister Kumaraswamy and former chief minister Siddaramaiah were put up in the same hotel in Kundagol but missed out on meeting each other in person. While the political secretary of the chief minister says the chief minister didn’t have information, the BJP says it is a clash of egos

 

In this phase over 10.17 crore voters would be covered across 1.13 lakh polling booths. This is perhaps the phase which will see the maximum number of ex-chief ministers fighting it out in the political fray.

There has been a flurry of activity in the South Indian movie industry this week. Check out the latest happenings with Chumma South as we get you the latest gossip and news from the world of cinema.
 

In a video that has gone viral, Sikhs can be seen raising slogans of ‘Murderer of Sikhs in 1984, Congress, murdabad’ while Congressmen tried to heckle the protesting voices down during the Congress's Chandigarh rally