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Oppn grand alliance seals Bihar deal for LS polls: RJD gets 20, Congress 9

The agreement came into existence after a long series of meetings among the partners in the last few days

Charge of the 'chowkidar'

What does the Main Bhi Chowkidar campaign have to do with the Modi government's performance over the last five years, or its vision for the next five if it is voted back?

Are you confused about who to vote for? Congratulations, what a luxury

Many less fortunate people will have less trouble deciding

Marketing offence as self-defence

Mr Modi's marketing mavens have now flipped Mr Gandhi's stinging missile of "Chowkidar chor hai"

Shekhar Gupta: Congress marches into poll battle in NGO gear

Congress has questions but no answers, 'leaders' but no winners. Weeks before elections, it's behaving more like a virtuous, anti-establishment NGO just doing its thing

A nation of Tweeters and a messy prologue to a startlingly trivial election

The hashtag triumph of the prime minister's "Main Bhi Chowkidar" campaign on Twitter over the equally silly Congress "Chowkidar Chor hai" sloganeering reads like a TV soap about politics

Yeddyurappa dismisses Rs 1800-cr bribe allegation as 'malicious'

Citing a media report, the Congress on Friday soughtan investigation by the Lokpal into allegation that bribes of Rs 1800 crore were paid by Yeddyurappa to the BJP's top brass

BJP retains 14 sitting MPs, drops single legislator from Raj in first list

The party has dropped the only woman MP from the state, Santosh Ahlawat, from Jhunjhunu seat and replaced her with Narendra Khinchad

Gautam Gambhir joins BJP, may contest Lok Sabha elections from New Delhi

BJP sources said Gautam Gambhir may be fielded from the New Delhi constituency, currently represented by the party's Meenakshi Lekhi

BJP's first list of Bengal candidates pins hope on TMC veterans, defectors

Of the 28 candidates, nearly 25 are new faces, with a thrust on active political workers rather than greenhorns from the glamour world

Political cartoons emerge as social media warriors this election season

Like the BJP, Gandhi's Congress Party and other rivals have their own armies of artists, video editors and journalists to create online content for the social media war

LS polls candidate list: Amit Shah makes debut, PM to contest from Varanasi

All incumbent MPs from Karnataka have been retained by BJP, while Amit Shah has replaced L K Advani. Aparna Yadav has not been named by Samajwadi Party yet

BJP names 184 Lok Sabha candidates; Shah replaces Advani in Gandhinagar

Senior leaders like Nitin Gadkari and Rajnath Singh will contest from their sitting seats, Nagpur and Lucknow, respectively

Lok Sabha polls: Over 30,000 political ads on Facebook since February

Over Rs 6 crore spent on these ads; Twitter data shows no promoted tweet in past seven days from key handles

Lok Sabha elections: Smriti Irani to again take on Rahul Gandhi from Amethi

Irani had lost to Gandhi in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls but was seen to have put up a spirited fight

ELECTIONS LIVE: Shah replaces Advani in Gandhinagar; check BJP's first list

General VK Singh will contest the Ghaziabad seat. Smriti Irani will contest from Congress bastion Amethi, while Nitin Gadkari will fight for the Nagpur seat

Three recent entrants from Congress given BJP tickets in first list

Congress rebel law maker Umesh Jadhav will take on Congress leader in Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge from Gulbarga

BJP releases first list of 184 LS candidates; Modi to contest from Varanasi

Senior party leader J P Nadda told a press conference that the party also decided to field Home Minister Rajnath Singh from Lucknow and another Union minister Nitin Gadkari from Nagpur

Elections 2019: Why BJP-Sena combine may have the upper hand in Maharashtra

The western state shows that what you do in politics matters more than what you say

Not campaigning for any political party: Salman Khan amid Congress' claim

Elections in Madhya Pradesh will be held over four phases starting April 29