Politics

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Politics

Worked as a daily wage worker and labourer: Meet BJP’s Laxman Bag who upset 5-time Odisha CM Naveen Patnaik in Kantabanji

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2024

Naveen Patnaik lost to Laxman Bag by a margin of 16,000 votes. The latter lost in 2014 and 2019 but managed to win in 2024.

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‘I’m here, come to me, why harm innocent animals’: Annamalai tells DMK after party workers beheaded a goat to celebrate his defeat

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2024

“Instead of killing an innocent goat, if DMK is so angry, come to me, I’m here only…” Annamalai said adding that the goat could have been spared.

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“TMC goons attacking BJP workers after poll results have become culture of Bengal”: Suvendu Adhikari urges governor to prevent post-poll violence like 2021

ANI - 6 June, 2024

BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari wrote to WB Governor CV Ananda Bose, raising concerns about TMC's alleged role in post-poll violence

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Last ditch attempt by Congress to stop Modi 3.0? Pawan Khera shares old video to claim people of Andhra Pradesh are upset with Chandrababu...

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2024

On the 6th of June, Congress leader Pawan Khera quoted an X post by a Congress supporter who shared a video showing some people burning down posters and flexes.

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Uttar Pradesh: Ruckus on roads after ‘Modi ki boti-boti’ fame Imran Masood wins in Saharanpur LS, police initiate probe after videos go viral

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2024

Imran Masood's supporters blocked road and even made lewd gestures toward women as they celebrated their leader's victory.

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Muslims consolidated behind INDI Alliance, yet, Delhi Muslims are disappointed that the ‘communal’ BJP did not lose in the national capital

Rukma Rathore - 6 June, 2024

Muslims in Delhi hoped that they will be able to defeat the BJP in the next assembly polls in the national capital.

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Symbolic murder? DMK workers paste Annamalai’s picture on a goat before beheading it, had earlier eaten mutton biryani to ‘celebrate’ his loss

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2024

Responding to DMK's constant mocking of him as 'goat', Annamalai had acknowledged that his family rears goats and his parents have raised him by selling goats. So he feels no shame in being compared to goats.

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INDI alliance leader makes bizarre statement saying the mandate was for them, but not the numbers: Here is how the mandate and numbers both...

OpIndia Staff - 6 June, 2024

While it is true that the BJP-led NDA has backed fewer seats this time, the BJP has nevertheless secured more number of seats on its own than the I.N.D.I. alliance has done collectively

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