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    Lok Sabha elections: BJP wins 240 seats, INDIA bloc above 230-mark

    The Congress won 99 seats, significantly improving on its 2019 tally when it had managed to get only 52 seats.

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  • Posts by the BJP's social media handles on the caste census. The text in Hindi in the first image says 'religion was asked, not caste', referring to the Pahalgam terror attack in Kashmir in April.
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    SC tells EC to consider plea seeking disclosure of final voter turnout after each polling phase

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