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Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma claimed that Congress' rout in the state reflected that the Ashok Gehlot government had lost the people's confidence.

Naveen Patnaik was administered the oath of office and secrecy by Governor Ganeshi Lal at the Idco Exhibition Ground in Bhubaneswar today.

In Tharoor's view, had the Congress' idea of NYAY, a minimum income guarantee scheme, been unrolled even six months earlier, it might have won over many voters.

The RJD President was reportedly disturbed for last few days after his party's poll rout in Bihar and Jharkhand.

Ramdev had opined that India should take measures like denying voting rights and other government services to the third children onwards to check population explosion.

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Pradyut Bordoloi said the BJP has divided society by religious polarisation which is a dangerous signal for a secular society like Assam and the northeast.

The Congress, in its defense may cry about misuse of government machinery, the bitter truth is the constituency could have been managed had the party worked systematically trying to match the BJP's organisational ground work.

The third richest in this Lok Sabha race was Nakul Nath, son of Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath, with assets worth Rs 660 crore. A Congress candidate from the Chhindwara constituency of Madhya Pradesh, he won the seat by over 35,000 votes.

The West Bengal chief miinster also claimed that the BJP, which won 18 seats in the state, had distributed Rs 5,000 to each voter to garner their support.

Reddy, whose party stormed to power with a landslide victory in Andhra Pradesh on Thursday, is likely to discuss providing outside or issue-based support to the Modi government in the meeting, sources said Saturday.

Lok Sabha election results suggest that Congress could not survive the saffron storm in places where the two national parties witnessed a bipolar contest.

The TMC has suspended MLA Subhrangshu Roy for six years for anti-party comments. Roy claimed that many in the TMC 'feel suffocated'.

Trump and PM Modi agreed to meet at the G-20 Summit in Japan next month as both the leaders pledged to further strengthen the US-India strategic partnership.

In the last general election, the J Jayalalithaa-led AIADMK was the third largest while the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC was the fourth largest party.

The king was next to Queen Suthida, a former member of his royal bodyguard unit whom he married days before his coronation earlier this month.