2019 General Elections
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Election of sole JD(S) Lok Sabha MP from Karnataka declared void by High Court
Prajwal Revanna, the grandson of former Prime Minister HD Deve Gowda, won the Hassan seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
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Supreme Court dismisses sacked BSF jawan’s plea against PM Modi’s election from Varanasi
The sacked jawan, Tej Bahadur Yadav, alleged that the election body rejected his nomination for ‘extraneous reasons’ during the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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Sacked BSF soldier’s plea challenging Modi’s election from Varanasi dismissed
Tej Bahadur Yadav’s nomination papers to contest the Lok Sabha elections against Narendra Modi were rejected by the Election Commission in May.
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Trending
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Why the exodus from Bhutan of young people and qualified workers is a worry for India
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Seven firms that failed drug quality tests gave money to political parties through electoral bonds
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Why did a Union minister say he would apply for Indian citizenship under CAA?
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Electoral bonds: What we know so far, what we will know soon – and what we may never know
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India’s latest GDP growth numbers are ‘mystifying’, says former chief economic advisor
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Lok Sabha polls: NGOs urge Supreme Court to order inquiry into ‘discrepancies’ in election data
Association for Democratic Reforms and Common Cause claimed that voter turnout figures and the number of votes counted in 347 constituencies did not match.
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Lok Sabha polls: Row after DMK’s expenditure affidavit reveals it donated Rs 25 crore to CPI, CPI(M)
The Left parties are in a tight spot since the amount has not been mentioned in its election expenditure affidavit so far.
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Vellore Lok Sabha election: DMK candidate Kathir Anand wins by over 8,000 votes
The constituency had voted on Monday with a 71.51% turnout.
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Video
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Caught on camera: Container ship hits and knocks down gantry cranes while docking at a Turkey port
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Watch: Temple in Kochi gets a mechanical elephant to perform prayer rituals
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Watch: Srinagar hosts Formula 4 car show on the roads around Dal Lake
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Watch: Scenes of damage after four coaches of a Sabarmati-Agra train were derailed in Ajmer
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Adorable animals: Playful elephant calf keeps stopping cleaner from raking leaves
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Tamil Nadu: 72% voting recorded in Vellore parliamentary election
AIADMK leader AC Shanmugam, DMK’s Kathir Anand and Naam Tamilar Katchi’s Deepa Lakshmi are the prominent candidates in the fray.
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Allahabad High Court sends notice to PM Narendra Modi on plea challenging his election to Lok Sabha
The petition was filed by former Border Security Force constable Tej Bahadur Yadav, who had filed his nomination from Varanasi against Modi.
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AAP leader Raghav Chadha moves High Court against BJP candidate’s election from South Delhi
In his plea, Chadha alleged that Ramesh Bidhuri concealed a criminal case and falsified information in his affidavit.
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The Reel
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‘Adrishyam’ trailer: Eijaz Khan and Divyanka Tripathi Dahiya play undercover agents
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Prithviraj Sukumaran on what makes ‘The Goat Life’ special: ‘A deeply meditative character study’
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Start the week with a film: A riveting game of mind control in ‘The Manchurian Candidate’
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‘Crew’ trailer: Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Kriti Sanon play stewardesses involved in smuggling
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‘I wanted to land this film correctly’: Why actor Kunal Kemmu chose to direct ‘Madgaon Express’
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Election to Vellore Lok Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu to be held on August 5, results on August 9
Polls were rescinded in April following allegations of money being used to influence voters.
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2019 elections seem to be among the ‘least free and fair’ in decades, claims group of ex-bureaucrats
In a letter to the ECI, they said its bias ‘towards one particular political party’ became obvious when it delayed the announcement of the election dates.
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A spatial analysis of Lok Sabha results shows BJP’s strategic growth across India
The map reemphasises the heterogeneity of voting behaviour in the country.
Christophe Z Guilmoto, The Conversation
The Field
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Commonwealth Games: Malaysia to consider hosting a downsized edition in 2026; Singapore also in fray
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WPL 2024: From captain Meg Lanning to rising star Shreyanka Patil – The Field’s team of the season
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Wrestling: IOA dissolves ad-hoc committee; elected body to take charge of national federation
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Hockey: Harmanpreet Singh to lead 27-member Indian squad for Australia tour
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IWL 2023-24: Odisha FC inch closer to title with win over East Bengal