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The list did not name a candidate from Worli in Mumbai, from where Shiv Sena youth wing leader Aaditya Thackeray — son of Raj's cousin Uddhav Thackeray — will be making his electoral debut.

Former Karnataka CM and senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah sought to know why there was 'hatred' for Karnataka and no response from Modi despite the severe floods that ravaged many parts of state.

While Fadnavis will fight polls from Nagpur South West seat, Patil is set to contest from Kothrud. Among others, Manohar Bhadane has been named from Dhule rural and BJP minister Pankaja Munde from Parli.

Pawar resigned from the Assembly after being named by the Enforcement Directorate in the multi-crore Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank scam.

Ever since the Shiv Sena was founded by late Bal Thackeray in 1966, no member of the family had contested any election or held any constitutional post.

Last week, the Election Commission had announced that polling for 11 Assembly seats in UP mostly belonging to MLAs who had won the Lok Sabha polls and resigned as members of state assembly will be held on October 21.

The TMC supremo, after inaugurating a south Kolkata puja, asserted that any attempt to fuel trouble during the five-day festival should be thwarted.

Rajnath Singh said that when he was Home minister, the Pulwama incident had taken place and no one in the country will be able to forget the sacrifice of the soldiers who died in the incident.

This was the first cash seizure in Thane district after the assembly poll schedule for Maharashtra was announced on September 21.

The EC had on September 21 announced bypolls to 15 assembly seats in Karnataka for which voting was to take place on October 21.

Speaking at the Punyabhushan award presentation ceremony, Naidu asked historians, archaeologists, linguists and other scholars in the country to unite in order to re- create Indias real history before the world.

The by-elections next month would have forced the BJP to take a risk without knowing the fate of the disqualified MLAs, but the postponement allows the party to see how the situation unfolds in SC.

Addressing a press meet here, at the residence of Pradyot Debbarman, TPCC General Secretary Sridam Debbarma, who is among the nine leaders, said the 'royal scion has fallen victim to a conspiracy'.

Union Railway Minister Piyush Goyal was to inaugurate the overbridge on September 30 but it was unveiled by TMC leader and state panchayat minister Subrata Mukherjee on Tuesday.

Deora had triggered speculation about his future political role after he praised Modi's address in Texas as a momentous first for India's soft power diplomacy.

Ram Madhav's reaction came after Congress in a series of tweets slammed Modi for tweaking his poll slogan for the US president.