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Trial by Test: Why to-be brides in Madhya Pradesh had to take pregnancy tests before wedding?
On 22 April, 219 couples got married in Madhya Pradesh's Dindori. However, some women couldn't tie the knot as their names were withheld after their pregnancy tests were positive. The incident has sparked a fresh row with Congress calling it an 'insult to women'

Birthday Blues: The controversy surrounding a temple-shaped cake cut by Kamal Nath
Kamal Nath, who turns 76 on Friday, had an early birthday celebration and the BJP is seething. It’s the cake that has landed the senior Congress leader in trouble – a temple-shaped one with an image of Lord Hanuman and a saffron flag on it

Ashok Gehlot cocks a snook as Congress discipline is in jeopardy
What is writ large is that the Congress supremo and the Gandhis seem to be losing their grip on the party, with many of the leaders not shy about stating their preferences, even if it is at variance

Bharat Jodo Yatra: Kamal Nath says PM Modi changes clothes three times in day
Nath claimed Prime Minister Narendra Modi changes his clothes three times in a day and has a suit allegedly worth Rs 10 lakh, days after the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) suggested that Rahul Gandhi wore a T-shirt costing more than Rs 41,000 during the Bharat Jodo Yatra

Madhya Pradesh local body polls: BJP's 'historic' performance, says CM; Congress calls result 'encouraging'
BJP has won the post of mayor in five municipal corporations - Burhanpur, Satna, Khandwa, Sagar and Ujjain, while the Congress has won in Chhindwara and the AAP in Singrauli

Shifting sands of politics: Decoding legislators’ lust for power and fate of state governments
There are several instances from Maharashtra and Karnataka to Arunachal Pradesh and Goa where political parties with most seats were forced to sit in Opposition, while those rejected by voters came together to form a coalition government

Maharashtra political crisis update: CM Uddhav Thackeray tests positive for COVID, says Congress' Kamal Nath
Kamal Nath said he was supposed to meet Thackeray before the Cabinet meeting, but as the CM has tested positive for COVID-19, he did not meet him

Madhya Pradesh: Govind Singh replaces former CM Kamal Nath as Leader of the Opposition in Assembly
Nath will continue as president of the Congress unit in Madhya Pradesh where polls are due next year

BJP government taking power shortage lightly, 'mismanaging' situation like COVID-19: Kamal Nath
Kamal Nath slammed the BJP-led government for handling the power crisis situation "the way they mismanaged COVID pandemic"

Madhya Pradesh: Kamal Nath resigns as Leader of Opposition
Kamal Nath resigned from the post as per the party's 'one person-one post' policy

If Prashant Kishor joins Congress, party should take advantage of his experience, says Kamal Nath
There is speculation in the media about Prashant Kishor joining the Congress as he has met party chief Sonia Gandhi two times recently

Religious divide in Madhya Pradesh Congress as Muslim MLA opposes Kamal Nath’s orders to celebrate Ram Navmi, Hanuman Jayanti
Madhya Pradesh Congress on 2 April 2022 issued the order urging all cadres to celebrate the upcoming Ram Navami and Hanuman Jayanti festivals

MP: After Digvijaya video on unity surfaces on social media, BJP says Kamal Nath is target
Mocking the Congress over the video, state BJP secretary Rajneesh Agrawal said Singh was highlighting groupism in the party and that the video was aimed at unseating Kamal Nath as the state unit president

"Brahmin and Baniya communities are in my pocket", says BJP leader Muralidhar Rao; Congress seeks apology
Rao later said the Congress was "distorting" facts and statements and that the BJP "don't discriminate among sections of the society. All Indians should be part of development"

Mamata Banerjee to meet Narendra Modi at 4 pm, likely to meet Opposition leaders
The TMC chief, who seeks to take up a larger role in national politics prior to the 2024 Lok Sabha election, is visiting Delhi for the first time after her party’s win in the recent Assembly polls

Congress downplays strife, asserts Rahul Gandhi best suited to lead party ahead of Sonia's meet with rebels
The assertion comes ahead of Saturday's meeting between Sonia Gandhi and many of the 23 leaders who wrote to her in August demanding an active leadership and maintained that Gandhis will always be a 'guiding force'

Madhya Pradesh bypolls: Voting for 28 Assembly seats to begin today; 33,000 security personnel deployed
The last hour of voting will be for COVID-19 patients and people suspected to be suffering from the disease, state additional chief electoral officer Arun Tomar said

SC stays EC order revoking Kamal Nath's star campaigner status for Madhya Pradesh bypolls
While the poll panel said its order was passed under the Model Code of Conduct and the matter was now infructuous, the apex court asked the EC's counsel how it could determine the party's leader. "It's their power, not the EC's power," the bench noted

MP bypolls: Kamal Nath moves SC against EC's decision to revoke his 'star campaigner' status
Senior lawyer Vivek Tankha said that the former Madhya Pradesh chief minister has challenged the EC's decision on various grounds and an urgent hearing on his plea would be sought

Madhya Pradesh bypolls: BJP worsened situation in last 7 months, Congress will return to power, says Kamal Nath
To return to power, the Congress has to win all 28 seats going to polls on 3 Nov, while ruling BJP needs nine seats to reach the majority mark of 116 in the 230-strong House