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India has 2,293 political parties, 149 registered between Jan & March: EC

They include seven "recognised national" and 59 "recognised state" parties

Congress leader Kamat leaves for Delhi amid rumours that he will join BJP

Kamat was second in command in the BJP till 2005 when he switched over to the Congress

The 'chowkidar' trend: PM Modi renames Twitter handle, BJP leaders follow

Narendra Modi had on Saturday urged his supporters to take the 'main bhai chowkidar' pledge, saying he is not alone in the fight against graft and social evils

YSRC releases list of candidates for 25 LS, 175 Assembly polls in Andhra

Modugula Venugopal Reddy, the TDP MLA who recently joined the YSRC, has been made the party candidate for the Guntur Lok Sabha seat

Small parties in UP flaunt 'decisive' vote bank to stay relevant in polls

Small parties are hankering for political space and claiming that their dedicated vote bank could be the decisive difference between winning and losing

BJP may give Shatrughan Sinha's Bihar seat to Ravi Shankar Prasad: Sources

Actor-turned-politician Shatrughan Sinha, who is the sitting Member of Parliament (MP) from Patna Saheb parliamentary constituency in Bihar is likely to be replaced with Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad, according to sources.Sinha, a BJP leader who has criticised the party leadership several times in the past had put out a series of tweets that seemed to indicate that he will leave the party."Sir, the Nation respects you, but the only thing the leadership lacks is credibility & trust factor. "Leadership jo kar rahi hai or jo kah rahi hai, kya log uspe vishwas kar rahein hain? Shayad nahin!" Any way it all seems to be too little and too late?" he said."Promises made in the past are still to be fulfilled. Hope, wish & pray, though I may not be with you anymore - "Mohabbat karne vaale kam na honge, (shayad) teri mehfil mein lekin hum na honge"." Sinha tweeted on Friday.Sinha also shared the stage with opposition leaders at an anti-BJP rally in Kolkata in January.The BJP, .

Former CEA Kaushik Basu slams forces working to destroy India's reputation

Basu reiterated the 108 Indian and foreign economists and social scientists' concerns over political interference in statistical data in India

2019 polls: Grand alliance in Bihar to announce seat sharing on Monday

Polling in Bihar will be held in seven phases from April 11 to May 19

Priyanka will make no difference to BJP's poll prospects in UP: Adityanath

Adityanath also claimed that the "fledgling" SP-BSP alliance is already "embroiled in dispute"

Tamil Nadu Congress urges Rahul to contest Lok Sabha polls from the state

Rahul will heed to the plea of the people of the state and select a constituency from Tamil Nadu for himself

Opposition picks up only fake issues, and speaks on it: Arun Jaitley

The Opposition abuses the Election Commission and criticises the Supreme Court, says Jaitley

Lok Sabha polls 2019: Amar Singh may contest from Moradabad on a BJP ticket

The Congress has declared Raj Babbar as the candidate from Moradabad

TMC files defamation case against MLA who crossed over to BJP

Singh Thursday joined the BJP, giving a boost to the saffron party's prospects in the state for the Lok Sabha elections

Congress announces 8 candidates for Telangana in Lok Sabha elections

The Congress in Telangana is facing a crisis of sorts following the defection of six of its MLAs. This has reduced the party's strength in the Assembly from 19 to 13

Assam MP Ram Prasad Sarmah quits BJP after serving party for 29 years

Cites neglect of old workers by 'new intruders'; his name was not included in party's panel of probables for Tezpur Lok Sabha seat

Lok Sabha poll season helps create more than 13,000 social media jobs

The largest chunk of jobs has been for fact checkers

India will continue economic reforms irrespective of who wins LS polls: CEA

'The goods-and-services tax has given us a template for reforms absent a crisis,' chief economic adviser Krishnamurthy Subramanian said

Lok Sabha polls: Women catch up, but men still wield disproportionate power

The chance of a woman getting an executive role in direct dissemination of power is still low

2019 Lok Sabha Election: BJP hopes to reap poll gains from 'PM Kisan' in UP

Over 10 million farmers have received Rs 2,000 crore under the flagship scheme

Congress plans to bring right to health care in Lok Sabha manifesto: Rahul

Opposition parties are also set to release their common agenda later this month