Sharad Pawar

Shunning NCP's Mumbai city chief position, Sachin Ahir joined the Shiv Sena in presence of party chief Uddhav Thackeray

They are likely to be issued a show-cause notice by the Election Commission to explain why their national party status should not be revoked.

The Balakot airstrike has been a raging topic of debate in the political arena with opposition leaders trying to either downplay or dismiss the claims India of attacking terrorists inside Pakistani territory.

Sharad Pawar claims that the EVMs and VVPATs have no problem but the machines with the electoral officers taht is finally counted.

The NCP-Congress alliance has now shifted its agenda towards the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections to take on the incumbent BJP government. In 2014 state polls, NCP had won 42 out of 288 assembly constituencies.

Press Secretary to the President of India, Ashok Malik clarified that NCP chief Sharad Pawar was given an invitation for swearing-in ceremony from V(VVIP) section and had a labelled seat in the first row.

Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil's son Sujay Vikhe Patil had earlier resigned from the Congress to join BJP on the denial of the ticket from the Ahmednagar constituency.

Chandrababu Naidu has met NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Congress president Rahul Gandhi, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and BSP supremo Mayawati

The theories of EVM hacking are wide and colourful. During the Gujarat assembly polls, 'journalist' Sagarika Ghose had attempted to peddle the theory that EVMs are picking up 'Bluetooth signals' and that can lead to 'network hacking'.

Samar Singh, son-in-law of fugitive businessman Vijay Mallya was campaigning for Congress-NCP candidate Parth Pawar, a son of former deputy chief minister Ajit Pawar.