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Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh (pictured) hopes that Valmiki wins and becomes the first transgender to become the Member of Parliament.

AAP fields its first transgender candidate from Prayagraj

New Delhi: Senior AAP leader Sanjay Singh Friday said his party has fielded its first transgender candidate from the Prayagraj seat in Uttar Pradesh for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Member of 'Kinnar Akhada' Mahamandaleshwar Bhawani Nath Valmiki will contest on the Aam Aadmi Party...

As per the seat-sharing formula, the RJD has got 20 seats, out of which it is giving up one for the ultra-Left party, the Congress has nine, followed by five for Upendra Kushwaha's RLSP and three each for Jitan Ram Manjhi's HAM and Mukesh Sahni's VIP.

Mahagathbandhan comes out with final allocation of seats

Patna: After a prolonged tug-of-war among its partners, the 'mahagathbandhan' (Grand Alliance) in Bihar finally allocated all of the 40 Lok Sabha seats Friday, announcing candidature of Misa Bharti from Pataliputra, Congress' Meira Kumar from Sasaram and RJD leader Abdul Bari Siddiqui's from Darbhanga. As...

In a brief interaction with the media in Amethi, Priyanka had said she would contest the election if the party wants her to do so.

Priyanka hints at contesting from Modi’s Varanasi

Rae Bareli (UP): Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra has thrown a hint that she is not averse to taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his own Lok Sabha constituency. "Shouldn't I fight from Varanasi?" Vadra said when a party worker asked her to...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi gestures as he addresses an election campaign rally in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, March 28, 2019. (REUTERS)

Modi promises ‘new India’ at election campaign launch

MEERUT: Prime Minister Narendra Modi officially launched his party’s general election campaign Thursday with a rally in India’s most populous state, promising development with national security in seeking votes for another term. A coalition led by Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is widely...

 

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