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Baba Siddique’s death shows poor law and order situation in Maharashtra: Mallikarjun Kharge

Kalaburagi (Karnataka), Oct 13 (PTI) Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Sunday said the assassination of Nationalist Congress Party leader Baba Siddique shows the poor law and order situation prevailing in Maharashtra. The people will teach a lesson to the ruling coalition government in the state in the upcoming election, he said. NCP leader and former Maharashtra Minister Baba Siddique was shot by three men in Mumbai on Saturday, following which two of the assailants were arrested. “It is quite visible that there is a complete failure of law and order in Maharashtra because in the broad daylight it happened,” Kharge

EC must clarify on questions raised by Congress about EVMs: Sibal

New Delhi, Oct 13 (PTI) Rajya Sabha MP Kapil Sibal on Sunday said the Election Commission must clarify on the questions raised by the Congress about EVMs in the recently-concluded Haryana Assembly polls. Sibal asserted he is of the opinion that misuse of EVMs does take place in the elections. The Congress had on Friday submitted more complaints to the Election Commission alleging discrepancies in the electronic voting machines during counting of votes for the Haryana Assembly elections. The Congress candidates from 20 assembly constituencies, in their written complaints to the Election Commission (EC), have alleged that the batteries in

Ex-DU Professor Saibaba’s body to be donated to hospital, says family

New Delhi, Oct 13 (PTI) The body of former DU professor G N Saibaba who passed away in Hyderabad, will be donated to a hospital as he wished, said a statement issued by his family on Sunday. Saibaba, 54, was released from a Nagpur jail after 10 years, in March this year. He was released after being acquitted by the High Court in an alleged Maoist links case. Saibaba’s body will be kept at Jawahar Nagar, Hyderabad, for his relatives, friends and well-wishers to pay homage, on Monday. Afterwards, his body will be donated to a hospital as per his

India’s Congress party complains to election body over outcome of state poll

NEW DELHI, Oct 10 (Reuters) – India’s main opposition Congress party has complained to the election panel about concerns regarding the counting of votes in state elections in Haryana won by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), it said. The partial rejection of the outcome, opens new tab, which gave the BJP 48 state constituencies against 37 for the Congress, was unusual in the world’s most populous democracy, where the credibility of elections has rarely been questioned in recent decades. The Congress, projected by exit polls to win the election in the northern breadbasket state, had said earlier

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