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  Sporting a turban, BJP's Sunny Deol files nomination from Gurdaspur

  April 29, 2019 17:27 IST

  Sunny Deol's brother and actor Bobby Deol was also present with him.

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  Poll code violation: Supreme Court to hear plea against PM Modi, Amit Shah

  April 29, 2019 11:39 IST

  Senior advocate Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for Sushmita Dev, alleged that PM Modi and Amit Shah violated the Model Code of Conduct and the Election Commission was not acting on her complaint.

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  Heartwarming photo of 95-year-old going to vote in Begusarai is a glorious example of India's democracy

  April 29, 2019 11:37 IST

  This photo from Begusarai is a shining example of India's democracy. And this time, it is not about Kanhaiya Kumar or Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Giriraj Singh or for that matter Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Tanweer Hasan.

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  Sunny Deol offers prayers at Golden Temple before filing nomination

  April 29, 2019 10:48 IST

  Earlier, actor Vinod Khanna won the Gurdaspur seat four times in 1998, 1999, 2004 and 2014.

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  PM Modi urges people to break voting records of previous three phases

  April 29, 2019 10:50 IST

  On Monday morning, PM Modi tweeted, "Another phase of the General Elections begins today. I hope those voting today do so in large numbers and break the voting records of the previous three phases."

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  Here's list of key candidates in fourth phase of polling for Lok Sabha election 2019

  April 29, 2019 10:51 IST

  In the fourth phase, about 12.79 core voters will decide the fate of 961 candidates.

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  64 per cent voter turnout in fourth phase of LS polls -- as it happened

  April 29, 2019 23:52 IST

  Voting in the fourth phase of Lok Sabha polls 2019 has concluded. As many as 957 candidates are contesting for 72 seats in nine states - Bihar, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Odisha, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Bengal and Jammu and Kashmir. Sporadic incidents of violence were reported from West Bengal's Asansol and a few other places in the state. Read on to know how April 29 -- phase 4 polling of the Lok Sabha election -- unfolded.

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  Fire destroys wheat crop in Amethi, farmer dies of shock; Irani draws water from hand-pump

  April 28, 2019 23:47 IST

  In a video shared online, Smriti Irani was seen drawing water and helping villagers douse the fire.

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  Maharashtra: Polling in 17 Lok Sabha seats in fourth phase on April 29, Deora, Urmila in fray

  April 28, 2019 22:26 IST

  Altogether 3.11 crore voters are eligible to exercise their franchise across the 17 seats of Mumbai metropolitan region and parts of northern and western Maharashtra.

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  72 Lok Sabha seats in nine states go to polls in fourth phase on April 29

  April 28, 2019 20:51 IST

  The stakes are high for the ruling BJP and its allies as it had swept 56 of these seats in 2014, leaving just two for the Congress and the rest for other opposition parties such as the Trinamool Congress (six) and the Biju Janata Dal (six).

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  'Dhai Kilo Ka Haath' Sunny Deol meets '56-inch chest' Modi, PM roots for his victory

  April 28, 2019 20:02 IST

  PM Narendra Modi tweeted photo of the meet complete with a dialogue from one of Sunny Deol's movies

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  Unlike Rahul Gandhi who needs holiday every few months, PM Modi has been working tirelessly: Amit Shah

  April 28, 2019 18:59 IST

  Addressing back-to-back election rallies in Sitamarhi and Saran Lok Sabha segments set to go to polls in the fifth phase of general elections Amit Shah also drew a contrast between PM Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi, claiming that the prime minister has been working “tirelessly for the past 20 years” unlike the Congress president “who needs a prolonged holiday every few months”.

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  Agricultural growth fell from 4.2 % to 2.5% under PM Modi govt: Congress

  April 28, 2019 18:53 IST

  Addressing a press conference, party spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala said the Modi government would need “20 years” to double the income of farmers, as against the Centre’s promise of achieving the feat by 2022.

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  Income tax refunds: Records show Modi got at least five, Rahul six

  April 28, 2019 18:02 IST

  The information is based on the online 'refund status' provided by the Tax Information Network of the Income Tax Department.

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  What vision do you have to get East Delhi ticket: AAP's Atishi asks Gambhir

  April 28, 2019 17:29 IST

  The cricketer-turned-politician had earlier said Atishi did not have a "vision" and therefore, was alleging him of having his name registered in two constituencies' electoral roll from Rajender Nagar and Karolbagh constituencies.

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  BJP denies Manohar Parrikar's son ticket for Goa Assembly bypoll

  April 28, 2019 17:21 IST

  Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) has instead chosen to award the assembly ticket to Parrikar's aide Siddharth Kuncalienkar.

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  Lok Sabha polls: CPI(M) candidate from Jhargram is an unlikely YouTube star

  April 28, 2019 15:36 IST

  She has been in active politics for decades and even a minister in the Left government, but Deblina Hembram, CPI(M) candidate from Jhargram Lok Sabha seat, shot into the limelight only after a fiery speech she made at a rally in February went viral on YouTube. 

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  EC silent ‘spectator to BJP's excesses’, says Chidambaram

  April 28, 2019 14:50 IST

  "According to me, the Election Commission has largely failed the people of India. It has been a silent spectator to the excesses of the BJP, Mr Modi's utterances and the enormous amount of money that has been spent by the BJP," Chidambaram said.

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  Nationalism is to solve people’s problems, not to suppress them: Priyanka Gandhi

  April 28, 2019 14:30 IST

  "The way they (BJP) contest polls by distributing money, sarees and shoes in front of media is wrong....People of Amethi have never begged in front of anyone. I've been coming here since I was 12, people of Amethi and Raebareli have a lot of pride,” Priyanka Gandhi said

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  Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot's 10-yr-old grandaughter appeals to voters to make her father Vaibhav win by huge margin

  April 28, 2019 7:09 IST

  The high-pitched election campaign of the Congress's leader Vaibhav concluded with his daughter Kashwini, appealing to people on Saturday.

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  Maharashtra, Rajasthan go to polls in fourth phase of Lok Sabha election on Monday | April 28 -- as it happened

  April 28, 2019 23:23 IST

  The Lok Sabha polls are just a few days away and the parties are leaving no stone unturned to garner as much as attention and affection from the crowds as possible. To this end, Amit Shah addressed massive rallies in Uttar Pradesh and Bihar on Sunday, while Priyanka Gandhi addressed a public meeting in UP's Bahraich. PM Modi had a day-off. Consituencies from nine states go to polls on Monday in fourth phase. Read on to know how April 28 unfolded.

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  Congress complains to EC over wrong BJP symbol in Bengal

  April 28, 2019 9:42 IST

  The Congress also said the ballot papers issued for other constituencies in West Bengal including Raiganj do not contain the initials of the BJP.

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  Arvind Kejriwal is misguiding voters: BJP complains to Election Commission

  April 27, 2019 23:41 IST

  BJP has accused Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal of "misguiding" voters through FM radio advertisement. It also said he distorted BJP chief Amit Shah's statement on illegal infiltrators.

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  RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav in 'Aap Ki Adalat': Rahul Gandhi deserves to become PM

  April 28, 2019 1:40 IST

  Replying to questions from Rajat Sharma in the show Aap Ki Adalat, Tejashwi Yadav, who has taken charge of RJD in the absence of his father Lalu Prasad -- presently in jail, said: "Rahul Gandhi deserves to be the prime minister, because he has a long political innings as MP from Amethi. Moreover, he is the president of India's oldest political party."

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  'When you don't know the rules, why play the game': Atishi asks Gautam Gambhir

  April 27, 2019 18:37 IST

  In a tweet, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate said after double entries in voters list, now Gambhir faces FIR for holding "illegal rally".  The cricketer-turned-politician, who is making his electoral debut from the seat, had held the public meeting in Jangpura on Thursday.

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  Pragya Thakur finally takes back her nomination from Bhopal. But wait...

  April 27, 2019 20:54 IST

  Bhopal has been in the news for Pragya Thakur's candidature.

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  Tharoor summoned by Delhi court over 'scorpion' remark

  April 27, 2019 17:28 IST

  Shashi Tharoor had earlier said that an unnamed RSS leader had compared Prime Minister Narendra Modi to "a scorpion sitting on a Shivling".

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  Rahul Gandhi suggested that Sujay contest from NCP, claims Radhkrishna Vikhe Patil

  April 27, 2019 16:16 IST

  Former Leader of Opposition in Maharashtra Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil's son Sujay Vikhe-Patil joined BJP recently and is now contesting Lok Sabha elections on BJP ticket. Radhakrishna Vikhe-Patil has now said that Rahul Gandhi suggested him to let Sujay contest from NCP ticket.