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Unlike direct elections, a vote of an MP or MLA is not counted as one. The value is determined based on the population of a State.

Hemant Soren's brother Basant Soren has also been named as a respondent in the current mining lease case.

Election Commission initiates clean-up of list of Registered Unrecognized Political Parties, deletes parties from list for violating norms

A video of TMC MLA Narendranath Chakraborty's speech, threatening BJP supporters had gone viral on social media.

Quraishi remarked that the victory of Yogi Adityanath in Uttar Pradesh is the victory of communalism.

Congress ran for 399 seats and won only two, implying that Congress has lost deposits on every seat it has lost.

The ECI informed that 'AAP' was assigned to a party named Awami Aamjan Party, which was registered on January 3, 2011.

CEC Sushil Chandra said that the One Nation One Election is a good idea and that EC is fully equipped for it.

"Authorised polling agents of the political parties are allowed to come inside the counting centre, EVMs are locked in strong room in presence of party representatives. There is no question of EVM tampering," said CEC Sushil Chandra.

RTI activist Rakesh Kumar in his application has sought that the number of polling booths where mandatory VVPAT verification is done should be increased from 5 per constituency to 25 or in proportion to the size of the constituency.