In Telangana, PM Modi Shares Stage with Pawan Kalyan
NDTV
Telangana Assembly Election 2023: Pawan Kalyan's Jan Sena Party so far has not made a big impact at the hustings, but the BJP is hoping to get traction from the actor's big fan base.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi shared stage with actor-politician Pawan Kalyan on Tuesday in a move that was high on optics in Telangana, a state where the BJP is keen on expanding its footprint. The party has allotted eight seats to the actor's Jan Sena Party in the state, where Chandrababu Naidu's Telugu Desam Party will not be in the race.
Pawan Kalyan's Jan Sena Party so far has not made a big impact at the hustings, but the BJP is hoping to get traction from the actor's big fan base in the state that has been ruled since its inception by K Chandrasekhar Rao's Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
Party insiders indicate that the BJP is hoping to limit the damage in Telangana. The party's electoral prospects are expected to be hit by its decision to replace Bandi Sanjay as state chief, and apparent reluctance to act against Mr Rao daughter K Kavitha in connection with the alleged liquor scam in Delhi.
However, Salman who got married on Friday night will miss his own wedding reception, scheduled for November 26 in Meerut, due to the district ban imposed just a day before the 'nikah' (wedding).
Maharashtra Election Results 2024: The rebel faction of Eknath Shinde, which has pitched the electoral battle as an acid test of "who is the real Shiv Sena" has lost no time to announce it as an ideological victory.
Meanwhile, as the dust settles after the counting of votes, the identity of the victor of the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election is settled, and the focus now will be on the next Chief Minister.
The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha leader was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate in January and released on bail in June.
Jharkhand Elections Results 2024: JMM chief Hemant Soren and his wife Kalpana are parents to two boys. Sharing a picture of his two sons, he wrote, "My strength."
Overall, the BJP has not only retained the three seats it won in 2022 but also flipped two others - Kundarki and Katehari - while also picking up a sixth from allies NISHAD Party.
Fahad Ahmed, a candidate of the Sharad Pawar-led NCP faction, is currently trailing Sana Malik, nominee of Ajit Pawar's NCP, by over 3,000 votes and the counting is nearing completion.
The BJP-led Mahayuti alliance, which includes the Shinde Sena and Ajit Pawar's NCP, is en route to a thumping win in the 2024 Maharashtra Assembly election, thanks to its two smaller allies.
The Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) leader said the results are not acceptable to his party and the opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi coalition.
The Adani Group said that none of its 11 public companies are implicated or accused of any wrongdoing.
The MVA had only been given a (very) slim chance of upsetting the in-power BJP-led alliance's applecart in this election; only one of 11 exit polls studied by NDTV believed it can win.