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Poonam Sinha, who herself is in the electoral fray as the Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow in Uttar Pradesh, also has an outstanding loan of over Rs 16 crore due to her daughter Sonakshi.

Elections 2019 LIVE: Hitting out at Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu for visiting Pakistan and "siding" with the neighbours, BJP president Amit Shah asked him to live in Punjab across the border.

According to the police, the man has been identified as 33-year-old Suresh, who deals in spare parts and lives in Kailash Park.

The Lok Sabha constituencies of Shopian and Pulwama continue to be crucial electorates for parties like the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), despite the raging militancy in the region.

The only leader to have been served an EC notice on Thursday was UP chief minister Yogi Adityanath.

The Congress chief said he has told his sister and Congress general secretary in-charge UP (West) Jyotiraditya Scindia that the primary aim in UP is to defeat the BJP.

'Modi hai to mumkin hai', as Adityanath says while crediting Narendra Modi and saying that even Congress could not do this.

Akhilesh Yadav has in the past indicated that he would back BSP chief and his alliance partner, Mayawati, for the top job with statements like the “gathbandhan would give India its next become PM”.

Mayawati formed the government in alliance with the BJP in UP in 2002. The alliance collapsed and Mulayam broke away a section of BSP to come to power.

Asked whether she was afraid of contesting against Prime Minister Narendra Modi from Varanasi, the Congress general secretary said she was not scared at all and that she joined politics "for good".

In six of the 13 Lok Sabha seats that went to polls on April 29, namely Pali, Barmer, Jalore, Banswara, Udaipur and Rajsamand, women outperformed men voters.

The BSP chief also claimed that the BJP is using jawans and other government agencies for electoral gains.

Accusing the Sena of alleged polarisation of people while the elections are underway, Owaisi said that his party will approach the Election Commission over the violation of the model code of conduct.

Bihar’s female labour participation rate is the worst in the country. According to a 2011 report, just 19.1 per cent women participate in the workforce as compared to a national average of 25.5 per cent.

The Election Commission has stated that Jitubhai Vaghani cannot campaign in any part of the country for using intemperate and abusive language while addressing party workers and voters in Surat.

Prakash Javadekar said that Rahul Gandhi is daydreaming of coming to power. He asked Congress president to do his homework before casting allegations.