Congress won three of the four seats in Rajasthan while it suffered a setback in Haryana where the grand old party's Ajay Maken, a former union minister and a party general secretary, lost to the BJP-backed Independent candidate Kartikeya Sharma.
Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, Congress' chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala and senior leader Jairam Ramesh were among the eight candidates that were elected to the from Karnataka and Rajasthan, while counting got delayed in Maharashtra and Haryana amid wrangling by rival parties over alleged breach of voting rules.
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Speaking to the reporters on Wednesday, Minister JP Dalal said that they have called all the MLAs to make the new MLAs understand on the polling procedure.
Congress has nominated three candidates from Rajasthan including party's communication department in-charge Randeep Singh Surjewala, Mukul Wasnik and Pramod Tiwari.
A volvo bus from Deepender Singh Hooda's residence will take MLAs to Indira Gandhi Airport (IGI) Terminal 4. From there, they will board plane for Raipur in Chhattisgarh, sources said.
Ahead of assembly elections, the party has decided to take an attempt at the civic polls. Out of the 13 candidates announced by the party, 6 are women.
The polling in 28 municipal committees and 18 municipal councils of Haryana will be held on June 19.
The deceased had moved to Gurugram in search of a job and had been living at a rented flat in Valley View Estate, Gwal Pahari, for about a month-and-a-half, police said.
The nomination process will commence on May 30 and the last date for filing nominations will be June 4. The scrutiny of nominations will be done on June 6 while the last date for the withdrawal of candidature will be June 7.
The incident took place on Thursday when a truck loaded with coal ran over migrants on Kundli-Manesar-Palwal expressway near Aasoda toll plaza in Jhajjar district, said police.
Earthquake tremors were felt at 6:08 am today in Haryana's Jhajjar
In view of the recent incidents in Punjab, vigilance has been increased in the Delhi-NCR region. Instructions have been given to senior officials, and police stations.
The cause of the blaze is yet to be known but it appears that a short circuit in the apartment led to it.
Yashpal Arora and Rahul Arora, the accused arrested, had demanded Rs 4 crore from Yashpal Batra in lieu of withdrawal of a complaint against him.
"A campaign will be launched to strengthen the inspection and inspection of tenants in Haryana so that no unknown and anti-social person is living in someone's house using a fake identity," said Anil Vij.
Attacking Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Bagga released a video saying that "if Kejriwal thinks that he has the power and the police and he can frighten the BJP activists, then he should register 1,000 cases against them not just one."
The four suspected Pakistan linked terrorists on their way to Telangana to deliver explosives were nabbed in Haryana's Karnal on Thursday and arms, ammunition and IEDs were recovered from the vehicle they were travelling in, senior police officials said.
According to reports, the four men belong to the banned Babbar Khalsa organisation.
The maximum temperature at most places in Punjab and Haryana, including Chandigarh, had been hovering above normal limits during the past several days.
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