PUBLISHED ON: March 1, 2021 | Duration: 0 min, 28 sec Congress leader Rahul Gandhi, in Tamil Nadu ahead of the state elections, is trying to connect with locals with his fierce poll speeches, one-on-one interactions and also an apparent demonstration of his physical strength. In a video, which is widely being shared on social media, the 50-year-old ex-Congress chief is seen doing push-ups with a student. A nearly one-minute-long clip shows the Kerala MP from Wayanad taking up the push-up challenge while talking to a student. Can you do push-ups. Let s try 15? he is asked by Merolin Shenigha, a class 10 student.
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The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Friday that Tamil Nadu assembly elections will be held in a single phase on April 6. Considered as an important battleground for both national and regional political parties, Tamil Nadu will be seeing a fierce tussle between Congress-DMK and ruling BJP-AIADMK alliance. The opposition Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK)-led front by MK Stalin, including the Congress, had won 37 of the 39 Lok Sabha seats in Tamil Nadu in 2019.
Even before the Election Commission of India announced the dates for the upcoming assembly polls, the Tamil Nadu assembly on Friday passed a bill to provide a 10.5 per cent of special reservation for the Vanniyar community in educational institutions and in the appointment of posts in services under the state. In the battle race for the polls, recently BJP Yuva Morcha chief Tejasvi Surya asked people to unitedly defeat MK Stalin’s party. Slamming Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) as “
The ruling AIADMK party in Tamil Nadu sealed its alliance on Saturday with ally PMK for the April 6 assembly elections, by allotting 23 seats to the S Ramadoss-headed party.
BJP looking to achieve Mission East in Bengal, make inroads in South
BJP leaders feel that a better performance in these polls will be a big boost for the party in pushing its reform agenda set in the recently presented Union Budget.
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NEW DELHI: The upcoming assembly polls assume great significance for the BJP as it looks for an ideological victory in West Bengal by achieving Mission East and expand its footprint in the south beyond Karnataka.
BJP leaders feel that a better performance in these polls will be a big boost for the party in pushing its reform agenda set in the recently presented Union Budget.
The state of Tamil Nadu will go to polls on April 6, the Election Commission announced today. The counting of votes and declaration of results will happen on May 2, along with the process in others four states - Puducherry, Kerala, West Bengal, and Assam - where elections will be held.