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The Congress has dispatched a team of second-rung Muslim leaders who are led by Kalim Siddiqui, general secretary of the state party unit’s minority cell.

Over 1.2 million police personnel, 272 companies of central paramilitary forces and 20,000 security personnel drawn from the neighbouring states of Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra and Karnataka to ensure peaceful polling.

Polling will be held on Wednesday for 25 Lok Sabha seats in Andhra Pradesh, 15 in Uttar Pradesh, seven in Bihar, six in West Bengal, five in Uttarakhand, four in Himachal Pradesh and two in Jammu and Kashmir.

The Congress, faced with a hostile electorate all over Seemandhra following its decision to divide the state, has fielded B Satyanarayana (Satya) who owns an IT company and a warehouse.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has finally ordered an FIR against sitting Congress MP and Rajkot Lok Sabha candidate Kunvarji Bavalia (59) for violating the model code of conduct, even as the police probe into the code violation case against Narendra Modi continued on Monday.

A total of 333 candidates are in the fray for the 25 Parliamentary seats while another 2,243 will lock horns for the 175 seats with most places facing multi-cornered contest.

Top court wants EC to probe paid news charges against Maharashtra ex-CM

The rising turnout is largely attributable to increased participation of younger and first-time voters, as well as women.

The Election Commission of India (EC) has finally woken up from its slumber but only after the April 30 Lok Sabha polls are over and has begun probing how a Canadian citizen of Indian origin was able to fill the nomination form and contest the ballot-box battle without being questioned.