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Odisha-based miniature artist carves Modi, Patnaik faces on pencil tips
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India] May 26 (ANI): In order to commemorate Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik's thumping victory in the recently-held Lok Sabha polls, L Eswar Rao, a miniature artist, carved Modi and Patnaik's faces on separate pencil nibs, thereby payi
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K'taka: Cong MLAs meet BJP's R Ashok and SM Krishna, say 'nothing politica
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], May 26 (ANI): With BJP making electoral inroads in Karnataka following the Lok Sabha polls, Congress MLAs Ramesh Jarkiholi and Dr Sudhakar met BJP leader R Ashok at veteran leader SM Krishna's residence here on Sunday.
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Want to work for party's ideology, not any post: Rahul Gandhi
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 26 (ANI): After the Lok Sabha poll debacle, while offering to resign as president of Congress party during the meeting of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) on Saturday, Rahul Gandhi said that he wanted to work for the party's ideology and not for any post.
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MP CM Kamal Nath skips Congress Working Committee meet
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath skipped the Congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting held here to assess the reasons behind the party's performance in the Lok Sabha polls.
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Manoj Tiwari meets Sheila Dixit; takes blessings
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India] May 25 (ANI): BJP leader and Delhi state president Manoj Tiwari, who won the Lok Sabha elections from North East Delhi seat, met his losing challenger and senior Congress leader Sheila Dixit here on Saturday to take her blessings.
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Rahul's leadership not questioned at CWC meet: Ambika Soni
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Congress leader Ambika Soni on Saturday asserted that party president Rahul Gandhi's leadership was "not at all" questioned at the Congress Working Committee meeting held earlier today to assess the reasons behind its drubbing in the Lok Sabha polls.
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Hindu-Muslim division was done, votes were divided: Mamata Banerjee on TMC
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], May 25 (ANI): Declaring that she did not want to continue as chief minister, West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee on Saturday attributed her poor performance in the Lok Sabha polls to the "division" of Hindu-Muslims votes.
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Emotional Chidambaram urges Rahul not to resign, says cadre in South will
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): P Chidambaram got emotional while appealing to Congress President Rahul Gandhi not to step down from his post, claiming that the party's cadres in the southern states will commit suicide.
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BJP wins most of LS seats lost in bye-polls between 2014 and '19
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): The resounding win of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Lok Sabha elections has also reinstated the party in more than half of parliamentary seats lost in by-polls between 2014 and 2019.
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PM Modi greeted by British, German counterparts on electoral win
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Amidst high-octane developments on her home-front, UK Prime Minister Theresa May on Saturday called up Prime Minister Narendra Modi to congratulate him on his sweeping electoral win at the 2019 Lok Sabha polls.
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'Rahul Gandhi offered to resign, CWC unanimously rejected offer'
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 25 (ANI): Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday offered to resign from his post following the party's drubbing in Lok Sabha polls but it was unanimously rejected by the Congress Working Committee (CWC).
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Congress dismisses talk of Rahul Gandhi's resignation
Updated : 7 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi (India), May 25 (ANI): Congress on Saturday dismissed reports that party President Rahul Gandhi has offered to resign from his post following the party's debacle in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.
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