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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.

The activists urge people to press the last button of Nota in the EVMs if they are not happy with any of the candidates fielded in their constituencies.

Maoist rebels killed five police officers and three polling officials as they were returning from duty in Jharkhand.

Pawan Kalyan, in his speech, described Modi as a competent and disciplined leader.

Besides the six seats in Mumbai, there are four other seats in the Mumbai metropolitan region — Thane, Kalyan, Bhiwandi and Palghar.

Narendra Modi has said that the polling for 232 seats in the Lok Sabha elections so far has ensured the exit of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government.