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'Letter' by military veterans urging President to stop politicisation of armed forces is fake, say ex-chiefs: 'We are apolitical'
Fp Staff •The President's office has denied receiving a letter from over 150 veterans expressing "alarm and disquiet" at the armed forces being used for "political purposes", sources in the office said.
Lok Sabha Election Campaign LIVE Updates: Pakistan couldn't divide India in 70 years, Modi-Shah did it in 5 years, says Arvind Kejriwal
Fp Staff •Election Campaign 2019 LIVE Updates: Narendra Modi criticises former Finance Minister P Chidambaram, "After Independence, the Indian struggle for development should have continued. The former finance minister said during a budget speech in 2014 that India should be proud that it stood at 11th position as World's largest economy."
Lok Sabha Election Campaign LIVE Updates: Gauri Lankesh's sister warns against voting for Tejaswi Surya, who 'defended' journalist's murderers
Fp Staff •Election Campaign 2019 LIVE Updates: Kavitha Lankesh, the sister of journalist Gauri Lankesh who was shot by rightwing assassins in 2017, sent out an impassioned tweet on Saturday, asking people of Bengaluru not to vote for polarising candidates such as Bengaluru South's BJP nominee Tejaswi Surya, who had allegedly defended her sister's murderers.
Priyanka Gandhi Vadra's Ayodhya visit nothing but political symbolism, won't revive Congress' fortunes
Sanjay •The Congress’ problem is that it neither has the support base, nor the goodwill.
Election Campaign 2019 LIVE updates: Rahul says decision on contesting from another seat will be taken by Congress 'soon'
Fppolitics •Election Campaign 2019 LIVE Updates: Congress president Rahul Gandhi said that Amethi is his 'karmabhoomi' and will remain so. He further said that the decision on contesting from more than one Lok Sabha seat will be taken by his party soon.
In Kerala, UDF, BJP's poll campaigns hit a wall as high court bans flex boards for campaigning; LDF banks on graffiti
K Raveendran •The Kerala High Court reminded political parties about the “green protocol’ and prohibited the use of flex and other non-biodegradable materials for poll campaigning.
400 MCC violation complaints recorded in Maharashtra via cVIGIL app; 85 complaints lodged in Pune, 61 in Thane
•The maximum number of MCC violation complaints were received from Pune (85), followed by Thane (61), Solapur (44), Mumbai suburban (40), Mumbai city (39) and Nagpur (26). Most of the complaints were pertaining to banners put up without permission
Lok Sabha Election 2019: Samajwadi Party-BSP to have joint campaign rallies in Uttar Pradesh, says Akhilesh Yadav
•The SP-BSP alliance is fighting the ensuing Lok Sabha polls in Uttar Pradesh as allies. As per the seat-sharing agreement, SP is contesting 37 seats and BSP 38.
Lok Sabha polls: Narendra Modi does not 'campaign', he tells stories in which Opposition is villain and he is hero
Srinivasaprasad •With one term gone and with Modi's delivery falling short of promises, the stuff of his narrative will inevitably change now but his story-telling techniques won’t.
Amit Shah in Rajasthan: BJP chief slams Congress for 'corruption, caste-based politics' ahead of Vidhan Sabha polls
•Amit Shah addressed public meetings in Jalore, Sirohi, Pali and Udaipur districts of the state, which goes to the polls on 7 December.