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Justifying the agitation, Shiv Sena's Sanjay Raut said, "When Kasuri was foreign minister, he was very rude towards India and Vajpayeeji."

Candidates with names of other mythological icons like Arjun, Shatrughan, Shakuni and Prahlad are also in the fray.

RSS leader Indresh Kumar on one hand said that the controversy should be brought to an end but at the same time said that all meat eaters should be nationalists.

While much is at stake for the Bharatiya Janata Party-led NDA, which won a massive mandate in Lok Sabha election, to prove its mettle in the state Assembly polls, it is a do or die battle for Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's Janata Dal United.

The 'beef controversy', its many twists and turns, is a classic example of the way an issue has been manipulated to gain maximum short term political/electoral mileage with clearly disastrous long term consequences.

Akhlaq was beaten to death by a mob on Monday night after a public announcement from the local temple that a calf had been slaughtered and his family had eaten beef.

He later joined the BJP in the presence of its state unit president Mangal Pandey who welcomed him to the party-old,saying that his decision would help the prospects of the NDA candidates at the hustings.

Meanwhile, Rabri Devi said that Amit Shah was in jail as he killed thousands of people, calling the BJP president a 'jallad'.

"This 10-year-period is very important in pre-Independent India during which many important issues were recorded and many important cabinet decisions taken," Mamata said.

Admiring the PM for his leadership, Akbar said that people flock to attend Modi's events and the BJP does not have to 'rent a crowd'.

One of the principles suggested is that those who choose to make Parliament a full-time career should be adequately rewarded to reflect their responsibilities.

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In the last two elections in Bihar, women have outvoted men and both times favoured Nitish.

"Somnath should surrender. Why is he running away? Why is he so scared of going to jail? Now he is becoming an embarrassment for party and his family," tweets Kejriwal.

Rajeswar, who was the deputy chief of IB when Emergency was imposed, also claimed that Indira Gandhi was initially inclined to lift Emergency six months after it was imposed but Sanjay Gandhi, who wielded "enormous powers", was against it.

LJP also announced candidates for nine seats, fielding former MP and strongman Kaali Prasad Pandey from Kuchaykot and Vijay Singh from Chakai Assembly seat over which it was at loggerheads with Jitan Ram Manjhi's HAM.