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Sonia needs to lead from the front now: Congress leader Ashwani Kumar

As the Congress meets to discuss the reaons for its debacle in the Lok Sabha elections, party leader Ashwani Kumar has said that party President Sonia Gandhi needs to lead from the front now. Speaking to CNN-IBN, Kumar also admitted that some campaign managers made mistakes.



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Not a single woman representative from Haryana in Lok Sabha

Women candidates from Haryana failed to clinch even a single seat to the Lok Sabha in the recently concluded elections. All the women candidates, including Congress's Shruti Choudhury, Kusum Sherwal of Indian National Lok Dal, Nirmala of Janta Dal (United), could not take a lead and managed to get only third, sixth or seventh positions. Congress candidate from Bhiwani-Mehendergarh, Shruti Choudhury stood at the third position after being humbled by Dharambir of Bharatiya Janata Party.



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Union Home Secretary to meet PM-designate Narendra Modi today

Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi will meet Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami at 4 pm on Monday. Modi will take stock of several key issues with the Home Ministry in the meet.



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Nawaz Sharif invites Modi to Pakistan, says 'hope BJP win boosts ties'

Pakistan has invited India's PM-elect Narendra Modi to visit the country. Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit told CNN-IBN that their Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif had called Modi on Friday to congratulate him on his electoral victory, expressing "hope that BJP's decisive victory would augur well for Indo-Pak relationship" and added invited him to visit Pakistan.



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Modi keen on MHA, Jaitley MEA, Joshi Defence, Shourie Finance: Sources

The Bharatiya Janata Party is holding hectic meetings with the RSS leaders and its allies to chalk out the posts in the Narendra Modi Cabinet. Several BJP leaders are in Delhi to meet Prime Minister-designate Narendra Modi and party chief Rajnath Singh, eyeing berths in the Cabinet.



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Uttarakhand CM sacks minister who defected to BJP before polls

The Uttarakhand government seems to be in trouble. Chief Minister Harish Rawat on Monday sacked state tourism minister Amrita Rawat.



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CWC meeting underway to review party's worst ever electoral performance

The Congress Working Committee began on Monday to review party's worst ever electoral performance in the Lok Sabha polls as the party just won 44 seats in the 543-member House. The meeting is being held at the party headquarters.



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Caste politics used as propoganda in LS polls: Nitish Kumar

JDU leader Nitish Kumar on Monday exuded confidence that his party will form the government in Bihar and continue the good work. Kumar reiterated that he took the onus of the party's debacle in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections and resigned as Bihar Chief Minister.



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YSR Congress to give issue-based support to Modi government: Jagan

YSR Congress chief Jagan Mohan Reddy on Monday said his party will give issue-based support to the NDA government at the Centre.



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Model Code of Conduct ends

After being in force for over two months, the Model Code of Conduct has ended during which the Election Commission took several major decisions, including giving the nod to the government to appoint the next Navy and Army chiefs and asking it to defer notifying doubling of prices of natural gas.



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