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M.P BJP forms two-member panel to review Datia bypoll defeat, dissolves local unit
The Madhya Pradesh Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday (August 4, 2026) evening disbanded its Datia district unit as part of disciplinary action following recommendations from a two-member review panel constituted earlier in the day to delve into the reasons for the Datia byelection loss. “On the directions of State president Hemant Khandelwal, and based…
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Security beefed up as Congress, PDP, NC to observe August 5 as 'Black Day'
Security has been intensified across the Jammu region, particularly along the Jammu-Srinagar and Jammu-Pathankot national highways, as the National Conference (NC), the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Congress have announced separate protests to observe August 5 as ‘Black Day’. August 5 marks the seventh anniversary of the Centre’s decision to abrogate the special status…
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Delimitation may be less attractive for BJP now
Jantar Mantar and Bankipur, taken together, may make the prospect of an early delimitation exercise far less attractive for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) than it once appeared. For much of the last decade, the BJP had reasons to believe that it had assembled a durable social majority, with Hindus acting as a voting bloc…
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Bankipur bypoll victory reveals Gen Z backing for Prashant Kishor
Former election strategist and Jan Suraaj Party founder, Prashant Kishor, on Monday (August 3, 2026), demolished the three-decade stronghold of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party over the Bankipur seat in central Patna by defeating BJP candidate Neeraj Kumar Sinha with a comfortable margin in the bypoll. Mr. Kishor’s party tasted defeat in the last Assembly…
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Prashant Kishor: From election backrooms to Bihar Assembly
Just a month ago, election strategist and Jan Suraaj Party (JSP) founder Prashant Kishor announced that he would contest the Bankipur Assembly byelection in Patna. “If the BJP wins the Bankipur election, I will have no hesitation in acknowledging that the people of Bihar endorse their policies, their public face, and their government. If the…
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Over 26,000 government primary schools shut in U.P. after BJP came to power: Akhilesh Yadav
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday (August 2, 2026) said the current administration in Uttar Pradesh has shut down more than 26,000 government primary schools since assuming power in 2017, alleging that this was done to deny education to children from the PDA (Backwards, Dalit, Minority) communities. Addressing a press conference at the party…
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Haryana completes SIR phase-I; over 33 lakh names left out due to relocation, death, duplication
With Haryana completing the first phase of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) across the State, the names of 33,84,568 electors went unrecorded as a result of permanent relocation, absence, death or duplicate entries. Haryana’s Chief Electoral Officer A. Sreenivas said that the first phase of the SIR in the State has been completed and the…
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3,500 VBA workers detained ahead of Maharashtra bandh called by us: Prakash Ambedkar
VBA party chief Mr. Ambedkar appealed for a Statewide bandh to be observed in protest of the Centre’s education policies and the alleged police action against students and agitators in Delhi Source