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Opindia found a press release from 2014 that mentioned that five leaders were added to Margdarshak Mandal which were former Prime Minister late Atal Bihari Vajpayee, PM Narendra Modi, Lalkrishna Advani, Dr Murli Manohar Joshi and Rajnath Singh.

Conventionally, only Muslim politicians were appointed as the Minority Affairs Minister.

As Kulkarni’s counsel requested to withdraw the plea, the bench strongly condemned the trend of cases being filed and withdrawn over unfavourable outcomes. "This has to stop. This trying your luck at the Supreme Court then back out, this court has become a gambling court or what?" the court said.

"On every issue, you say that they are terrorists and separatists. If farmers hold protests, they are called terrorists...it is wrong," CM Bhagwant Mann said adding that Punjab feeds the nation and Punjabis have made sacrifices for the country.

On the 4th of June, seeing the vote count turn against YSRCP, Venugopalareddy disappeared from the village, having risked a huge sum taken from several people anticipating his party's win.

The first ever BJP government in Odisha was scheduled to take the oath of office and secrecy on 10th June, but now it has been postponed to 12th June.

President Droupadi Murmu administered the oath of office to Narendra Modi, followed by other members of his team of ministers. A total of 30 leaders have been appointed as Union Cabinet Ministers.

BJP's Rodmal Nagar defeated Congress leader Digvijaya Singh by a margin of 1.46 lakh votes in the Rajgarh constituency.

NCP leader Praful Patel said on Sunday that accepting the position of Minister of State (MoS) with independent charge in the Union Cabinet will be considered a demotion

Announcing his decision, VK Pandian said, “My intent of joining politics was only to assist Naveen Babu and I have consciously decided to withdraw myself from active politics. I am sorry if this campaign narrative against me has had a part to play in BJD's loss.