By-election Results for West Bengal and Uttarakhand Seats: Trinamool Congress leaders Tapan Deb Singha and Pradip Sarkar won West Bengal by-elections from the Kaliaganj and Kharagpur Sadar Assembly seats. Meanwhile, BJP candidate Chandra Pant won from Pithoragarh in Uttarakhand

\"There is no question of asking question (in Question Hour) today. Democracy has been murdered in Maharashtra,\" Congress leader Rahul Gandhi

From an unaccounted system of how much money came into a political party and where it was spent, these bonds have put a leash on income and expenditure on elections by a political party

The bank argued that such issuing electoral bonds would encourage money laundering and would undermine the faith in Indian currency

The BJP raised around Rs 470 crore through electoral trusts only, while the Congress raised Rs 98 crore; progressive Electoral Trust was also the largest donor to the Congress party, giving Rs 55 crore as donation

Ayodhya verdict: Ashok Singhal came to the forefront of the movement in 1984 when he, as the VHP joint general secretary, organised the first \"dharam sansad\" and mobilized sants and seers in support of the Ram temple issue

Under the odd-even scheme, vehicles having odd and even last digits of registration number will ply on odd and even dates, respectively; the scheme will conclude on November 15