The seat has been a metaphor of sorts for the late SP founder Mulayam Singh Yadav s national ambitions. After serving the state as chief minister for two terms, he first won this seat in 1996 and became the defence minister. Since then, the SP has held the seat and, barring two terms, the MPs have been from the Yadav family.
In this episode of The Morning Brief’s election special series “Polls On My Pod,"" we delve into the recent challenge of credibility surrounding the Lok Sabha Elections 2024. As the battle of rhetoric escalates between political heavyweights, the Election Commission of India has taken the unprecedented step of serving notices to the BJP and Congress for alleged violations of the model code of conduct by their star campaigners: PM Narendra Modi and Rahul Gandhi. Join your hosts Nidhi Sharma and Anubhuti Vishnoi from ET and OP Rawat, former Chief Election Commissioner of India, as they dissect the implications of the EC’s actions.
The Delhi High Court on April 29 ordered police protection to a transgender person seeking to file nomination for contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from the South Delhi parliamentary constituency.
New Delhi, May 1 (PTI) The people of the country are going to fulfil Mahatma Gandhi's wish and wipe out the Congress from the politics of the country in the Lok Sabha elections, BJP leader and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh said on Thursday.
Dhubri (Assam), May 1 (PTI) Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Wednesday alleged that Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma has a secret understanding with AIUDF chief Badruddin Ajmal just like the BJP has with AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi in Telangana, both aimed at defeating the grand old party.