Tag
8 pieces
The BJP-JD(S) alliance swept all four Karnataka council seats and Prime Minister Modi used the ballot-paper polls to needle the Congress, but the Congress kept the Nagpur Division Graduates' seat in Maharashtra after a count of more than 40 hours.
The party's central election committee approved Puri for the November 12 by-election to the seat vacated by L Murugan. Outlets across the spectrum reported the nomination in the same way, differing mainly in emphasis.
Students at Kolkata's Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute have been on an indefinite sit-in since October 12 after campus violence; the institute says six rustications were for vandalism and assault.
As of 15:40 IST on October 27: the National Conference chief said at Baramulla that Pakistan raising Kashmir abroad was protecting Kashmiris. BJP leaders and groups seek an apology and an FIR, the J&K Congress has distanced itself, and the NC says the speech was not seditious. No police case is reported registered.
As of 13:37 IST on October 27, the BJP is demanding an apology for the Congress president's Patna remark; Congress and allied leaders call it a figure of speech. No report read quotes Kharge on the row.
As of 13:37 IST on October 27, neither party has announced a pact for the 2027 election. Reports from sources differ on seats and who would lead; the BJP's state chief says there is nothing on an alliance.
Final results on October 29 gave the BJP six of the 11 seats and the Samajwadi Party five. Before them, the Election Commission voided three Agra booths and ordered six officers suspended, and the chief electoral officer's account apologised on October 27 for a reply that had drawn opposition charges over garbled names in the voter list.
The former Tamil Nadu BJP president, who now heads 'We The Leaders', said he backs the questions raised by Cockroach Janta Party leaders held in Delhi while disagreeing with their protest methods.
