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"Since independence, no Miya representative has been sent to parliament. This time, Muslim voters want to elect an AIUDF candidate," Mufti Abdul Karim, a supporter of the AIUDF, expressed hope while discussing the minority Muslim support for AIUDF.

The 2024 general elections in India, often dubbed as the largest show of electoral democracy, enter into the second phase on Friday.

“Ensure that not a single vote goes to the Congress and no Bodo votes get wasted to the BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) as the Bodo-identity has an existential threat from it”, an invigorated All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF) MLA from Dalgaon assembly constituency, Majibur Rahman, asked the mixed crowd of Bodos and Muslims supporting Durga Das Boro of Bodoland People’s Front (BPF) party in Udalguri just before filing the nomination papers on 3 April 2024.

The Election Commission of India (ECI), which has continued to receive flak for not acting on PM Narendra Modi's hate speech against Muslims during poll campaign in Rajasthan on April 21, has purportedly taken cognisance of the Model Code of Conduct violation today.

At least six students were fined Rs 1,000 each and were warned to be cautious by the University of Hyderabad for conducting a Palestine solidarity march inside the campus on 27 October last year.

The Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) on Thursday released its election manifesto, backing the caste census and promising a separate commission for farmers' welfare, right to apprenticeship, 50 per cent reservation for women in jobs.

While the hate speeches against Muslims by BJP leaders, including its star campaigners, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, make headlines and spark outrage, in Kerala, the campaign intensifies against two BJP candidates who were previously booked in hate speech cases.

Heavy landslides hit Arunachal Pradesh's Dibang Valley on Wednesday, due to heavy rainfall over the past few days, authorities said.

Leader of the Janata Dal (United), Saurabh Kumar, was shot and killed on Wednesday, at night in Patna by unknown gunmen who came on bikes.

In a letter to the Election Commission, Communist Party of India (Marxist) flagged “official claims” of voter turnouts of more than 100 per cent having been recorded in three Assembly segments in West Tripura Lok Sabha constituency.

BJP Minority Morcha leader Usman Ghani, who expressed disappointment with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's recent Islamophobic remarks in Rajasthan, was today removed from the party positions.

Samajwadi Party chief and former chief minister Akhilesh Yadav will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Uttar Pradesh’s Kannauj seat, the party said in a post on X (formerly Twitter), adding that he will file the nomination papers on Thursday.