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BJP says ready to tie up with all parties, BSP, TMC rule out alliance

With the Lok Sabha election results just a week away, the Bharatiya Janata Party on Friday said that it does not believe in "political untouchability" and is open to take support from any party. But the hunt of the party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi's post-poll alliances might run into trouble with BSP supremo Mayawati ruling out any post-poll alliance with the BJP.



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No differences among its Commissioners: EC

On BJP's allegations of bias in denying Narendra Modi to hold programmes in Varanasi, EC said in a statement that it acted with "full alacrity".



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Live: Huge turnout at Narendra Modi's victory roadshow in Delhi

A day after the BJP's overwhelming victory, the party's and the country's soon to be Prime Minister Narendra Modi has reached Delhi on Saturday. The BJP gave him a grand welcome in the national capital. Meanwhile, outgoing PM Manmohan Singh delivered his last speech as the Prime Minister today.



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The worst defeat: Where the Congress went wrong

The Congress and the UPA saw its worst ever defeat in the Lok Sabha elections on Friday. It didn't even manage to cross 50 seats and won only 44 seats. Congress President Sonia Gandhi and Vice President Rahul Gandhi have taken moral responsibility for the party's worst ever defeat.



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I owe everything to India where I, an underprivileged child of Partition, was empowered: PM ...

Taking a bow as the Prime Minister of the country for the last time, Manmohan Singh thanked the country for the love and support that was bestowed on him for the past ten years. "Whatever I have got, I have got from this nation, a nation that instated a child born out of Partition to the highest position," he said.



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Attacks, counter attacks rise in final phase of Lok Sabha election campaign

The 5-week long Lok Sabha election has been marred by a series of attacks and counter attacks by leaders from political parties across the spectrum. The electorate was made a witness to a never before heard vocabulary through the 9 phases of the Lok Sabha elections. While every leader has criticised the rival for derogatory remarks, most have themselves indulged in the same plot.



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Ramdev faces Rs 1,000 cr defamation suit for remark on Rahul

The yoga guru landed in a controversy last month when he said that Rahul visits Dalit houses for "picnic and honeymoon".



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EC sends special observer for Varanasi

Chief Electoral Officer said that Kumar has been asked to reach Varanasi at the earliest and remain there till electoral process is over.



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Lalu, Nitish can't stop Modi, they will become history: Sushil Kumar Modi

Even as Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Dal mounts a serious challenge to the Bharatiya Janata Party in Bihar, the latter is confident of winning the largest number of Lok Sabha seats in the state. Senior Bihar BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi on Friday responded to Lalu's tweet of claiming to halt Narendra Modi's jaggernaut just like he had stopped LK Advani's rath yatra in 1990 by saying that the RJD will be decimated in the Lok Sabha elections.



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EC notice to Rahul for remarks against the BJP

The Election Commission has served a notice to Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi for his alleged remarks against Bharatiya Janata Party prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi at a rally in Himachal. Rahul had allegedly said that if the BJP comes to power, 22,000 people will be killed in violence.



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