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Putting an end to speculations about forging an alliance with Biju Janata Dal to rest, State BJP President Manmohan Samal on March 22 said that the party will fight all 21 Lok Sabha seats and all 147 Assembly seats alone. The BJD and the BJP were in alliance for 11 years between 1998 and 2009 and fought three Lok Sabha and two Assembly elections together.
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Meanwhile, the Trinamool Congress filed a complaint with the Election Commission against West Bengal Governor CV Ananda Bose, accusing him of unlawfully meddling in the upcoming Lok Sabha poll process and trying to run a parallel office similar to the EC.
Here’s the full schedule of the electionsThe AIADMK on March 22 in its manifesto for the April 19 Lok Sabha elections promised among other things to ensure ₹3,000 monthly financial aid to women heads of economically backward families across the country.
Appointment of governors for States in consultation with the Chief Ministers, an alternative examination for NEET, establishment of a Supreme Court bench in Chennai were among the 113 electoral assurances made by the AIADMK.
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