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Thrissur (Kerala), March 17 CPI MLA C. C. Mukundan, who has joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), resigned from the Assembly on Tuesday.Mukundan, who quit the Communist Party of India (CPI) last week, has now been given the BJP ticket to contest from Nattika in the April 9 Assembly...

Kannur (Kerala), March 16 Senior CPI(M) leader and former Kerala health minister K K Shailaja said on Monday that the party's decision to field her from the Peravoor Assembly constituency was in line with its policy of not repeating candidates who have won two consecutive terms in a seat...

Bhubaneswar, March 15 The ruling BJP in Odisha on Sunday alleged that BJD's official Rajya Sabha candidate, Santrupt Misra, has not disclosed information about his association with the "Biju Naveen Inspirational Foundation" in his election affidavit.Odisha BJP spokesperson Anil Biswal, in a...

New Delhi, February 23 Veteran Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar said on Monday that DMK chief M.K. Stalin is "the best-suited" candidate to be the convenor of the INDIA bloc, asserting that a smaller partner would provide a better assurance of alliance unity than a dominant one.Speaking to

Thane, February 16 A court in the Thane district on Monday allowed the arrested corporator, Vilas Raghunath Patil, to be escorted by the police to file his nomination papers for the upcoming mayoral elections of the Bhiwandi-Nizampur Municipal Corporation (BNMC).A BNMC release stated that nine...