The Congress gave its leader Rahul Gandhi Rs 70 lakh each for fighting the 2024 Lok Sabha elections from Wayanad and Rae Bareli, the party has disclosed to the Election Commission.
Unlike the Lok Sabha elections, where political parties struggled to present concrete national issues, Haryana's assembly elections are rife with local concerns.
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge arrived in Srinagar on Wednesday on a two-day visit to Jammu and Kashmir to take stock of the party's preparations for the upcoming assembly polls.
Announcing the Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said the Lok Sabha polls in the Union territory were a triumph of "ballot over bullet".
After Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said he had made a mistake by fielding his wife Sunetra against his cousin Supriya Sule in the Lok Sabha polls, senior NCP leader Praful Patel said that it would not be appropriate for him to comment
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar has said he made a mistake by fielding his wife Sunetra Pawar against his cousin Supriya Sule in the recent Lok Sabha polls.