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Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of pursuing politics of hatred by dividing people along communal lines for electoral gains.

In the biggest haul of unaccounted money in a single instance country-wide for election purposes, the Cyberabad police seized Rs80.3 million in hard cash from two persons who were travelling to Hyderabad from Bangalore on Friday.

Ravi Kumar, who had reserved the order after hearing the petitions, withdrew from passing the order after a lawyer allegedly attempted to influence him.

After a rather lacklustre start in the morning and afternoon, Mumbaikars trooped out in large numbers in the evening to vote for their candidates in the third and final phase of elections in Maharashtra.

Telugu Desam Party (TDP) president N Chandrababu Naidu is clearly a desperate man nowadays, shaken after pollsters gave his party a thumbs down in the coming election in both Seemandhra and Telangana.

Senior YSR Congress leader B Shobha, Nagireddy, the party’s candidate from Allagadda assembly constituency, died in a tragic road accident near her native Allagadda town.

Rajmohan Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson, has said that Narendra Modi, Gujarat Chief Minister and Bharatiya Janata Party’s prime ministerial candidate, is, indeed, a genius but in marketing, not in development.

BJP workers ecstatic as PM candidate files papers in Varanasi

But a hamlet in the BJP-ruled state has made voting compulsory for its 950 electors several years ago.