Making a U-turn from her remark of weak Congress candidates eating into the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) votes in Uttar Pradesh, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi on Thursday said the party has only fielded strong candidates.

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Madhya Pradesh has recorded the biggest increase in voter turnout so far. In the six seats that have gone to the polls, the state has registered an increase of 10.04 percentage point in voter turnout in 2019 as compared with 2014

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Smriti Irani joined the Bharatiya Janata Party in 2003. She became the vice-president of the Maharashtra Youth Wing in 2004. In the 2004 general elections for the 14th Lok Sabha, she contested unsuccessfully against Kapil Sibal from the Chandni Chowk constituency in Delhi.

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In the battle for 40 seats in Bihar, the dynamics of caste arithmetic is very different from what it was in 2009 and 2014. This time the major parties like BJP and JD(U) and LJP on the one side RJD, Congress, RLSP, and VIP on the other side have tried to consolidate their votes through alliances. How much of the caste arithmetic has changed since 2009 and 2014 and which side would the Muslim and EBC votes go.

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