YS Jaganmohan Reddy (YSJR), 46, son of former erstwhile Andhra Pradesh chief minister YS Rajasekhar Reddy (YSR), has emerged as the giant killer in the 2019 Andhra elections to both the Lok Sabha and State Assembly polls.
Nihal Bagwan, 27, and Kalpana Das, 49, died along with another Austrian climber above the high camp of 8,848-meter Mount Everest, while descending the summit.
All eyes, of course, will be on Congress president Rahul Gandhi. On Thursday, as trends for the Lok Sabha polls showed a landslide win for the Narendra Modi-led BJP, the Gandhi scion accepted responsibility for party’s decimation.
The Karnataka cabinet Friday reposed 'faith and confidence' in the leadership of chief minister HD Kumaraswamy and asserted that the Congress-JD(S) coalition would continue.
The defeat of party veteran, Kummanam Rajasekharan, to Congress's incumbent MP Shashi Tharoor in Thiruvananthapuram, by a margin of nearly one lakh votes led to disappointment among the BJP cadre.
After drawing a blank in the 2014 general election, the Bahujan Samaj Party this time round won a decent 10 of the 38 seats that it contested as part of the alliance in Uttar Pradesh.
After a very close battle, the SKM reached the magic figure of 17 in the 32-member House, with the SDF lagging behind with 14 seats. The result of the Tumen-Lingie constituency is awaited.
Prajwal Revanna, 29, won the prestigious Hassan seat on Thursday, defeating A. Manju of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), with a margin of 1,41,324 votes.
Assembly elections in West Bengal will be held in 2021. But the BJP may not wait till then;their immediate goal is to put an end to Mamata’s rule as soon as possible.
