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While Anurag Thakur will contest for the fourth consecutive time from Hamirpur, Mandi lawmaker Ram Swaroop Sharma will fight the polls for the second time.

In 2014, of the 25 Lok Sabha seats across eight northeastern states, only two women were elected to the Lok Sabha.

BJP Bashirhat president Gopal Ghosh has rubbished news of any rift among the party workers and instead accused the Trinamool Congress of floating rumours, claiming TMC is afraid of losing to their candidate.

The strongest candidate for Kangra, however, himself chose to abstain from contesting, saying he would have preferred to 'make someone else contest.'

Mayawati claimed that while several BJP leaders and ministers declared themselves 'chowkidars' like the prime minister, the Uttar Pradesh chief minister was not sure whether to announce himself as one or remain a public servant or a yogi (sanyasi).

While the RJD will be contesting on 20 seats, the Congress will field candidates for nine seats. Upendra Khuswaha’s RLSP will contest on nine seats, while the HAM and VIP will be fighting on three seats each.

The BJP which is in alliance with JD(U) and LJP in the state is contesting on 17 seats, its ally JD(U) also has equal number of seats, while the remaining are with the LJP.

The party has re-nominated Sundergarh sitting MP Jual Oram, who would take on BJD’s Sunita Biswal, who is the daughter of former Congress chief minister Hemananda Biswal, and George Tirkey, a popular tribal leader, who joined the Congress.

In the list of 184 candidates released by the BJP, former Congress leader Umesh Jadhav is being fielded from Kalburgi district against the Congress's most known face in Karnataka, Mallikarjun Kharge.

Sources said a senior RSS leader had conveyed the party’s decision to LK Advani.

Internal party issues are said to be one of the reasons for former minister Ramalinga Reddy, a seven-time legislator, who has considerable influence in Bangalore South, for declining to contest the polls.

Not only social media, but party workers present at the large public gathering, jeered at the next generation Pawar leader as he delivered an 'unimpressive' speech.

Soon after, Prashant Kishor, a political strategist, responded to Chandrababu Naidu’s attack and asked the TDP chief to instead focus on how to retain his seat in Andhra Pradesh.

Congress chief Rahul Gandhi also announced to restore the special category status to Arunachal Pradesh and other states in the northeast.

The Bimal Gurung led GJM and the GNLF, who have long maintained their rivalry, seemed to have now transcended their animosities to come together against the TMC in the Hills.