Lok Sabha polls top updates: NCP leader Chhagan Bhujbal not to contest Nashik seat

Nationalist Congress Party leader Chhagan Bhujbal, from Ajit Pawar’s faction of the party, announced on Friday that he will not be contesting the Nashik Lok Sabha seat. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday claimed that India’s previous United Progressive Alliance governments had cheated India’s Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes and Other Backward Classes in the name of social justice. The Tripura chief electoral officer issued a notice to Tipra Motha chief Pradyot Kishore Manikya Debbarma for violating the Model Code of Conduct. Communist Party of India (Marxist) member Brinda Karat suggested that Congress leader Rahul Gandhi withdraw his statement about the lack of action against Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan by central agencies.

Here’s a look at today’s top developments:

• Nationalist Congress Party leader and Maharashtra minister Chhagan Bhujbal announced on Friday that he will not be contesting the Lok Sabha elections from Nashik, reported PTI. Bhujbal said his decision would end the tussle over the seat between his party, led by Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, and its ally Shiv Sena, led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde. Bhujbal told reporters that Pawar had claimed the seat on grounds that their party had more MLAs from the area, but Shinde sought to keep the seat as the...

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