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NCP supremo Sharad Pawar met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi at Kharge's residence in New Delhi over Opposition unity on Thursday. 

The leaders are likely to take forward unity talks as more deliberations are expected in the coming days.

Pawar's meeting comes a day after Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and his deputy Tejashwi Yadav met Kharge and Rahul Gandhi amid talks of like-minded opposition parties coming together on a common platform to defeat the BJP in the 2024 Lok Sabha polls.

The ruling BJP on Tuesday announced its first list of candidates for 189 constituencies of the total 224 in the Karnataka Legislative Assembly that are going to polls on May 10. The highlight of the list is that it has 52 new faces on the lines of the Gujarat experiment, though the number of replaced incumbent MLAs does not match the Gujarat figures.

The BJP has announced the first list of Karnataka election candidates

The BJP has announced the first list of 189 candidates for the Karnataka assembly election. Several MLAs have been dropped and Congress turncoats chosen in the first list. A second list will come soon, Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai said.

Gujarat BJP MLA Purnesh Modi will file his reply in a sessions court here on Tuesday in connection with Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's plea for stay on his conviction in a defamation case over his "Modi surname" remark, the former's lawyer said on Monday.
Purnesh Modi is the complainant in the criminal defamation case in which a Surat metropolitan court sentenced Gandhi to two years in jail on March 23 after holding him guilty over his 2019 remark at a Karnataka poll rally about "how come all thieves have Modi as the common surname?"

Alienieting state Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot for not initiating a single probe against the previous Vasundhara Raje-led BJP government on a series of corruption, Sachin Pilot, former deputy CM, on Sunday announced a one-day ‘fast’ against his own government.

The sit-in cum fast is also aimed to mark the Mahatma Jyotirao Phule Jayanti (birth anniversary of a social reformist) on April 11 here at Shaheed Smarak.

Addressing a press conference here, the Congress leader lamented that despite his letters to CM Gehlot in this regard, the state government did not take action in the former CM Vasundhara Raje’s corruption cases in the last four and half years. This, he apprehended might lead people to assume that there is a collusion between the two parties.

The Congress today distanced itself from its Maharashtra ally Sharad Pawar's comment that US short-seller Hindenburg Research's report on the Adani Group seemed to be a "targetted" attack.

Pawar, the chief of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), in an interview with a news channel, strongly backed the Adani Group and slammed the narrative around Hindenburg's report on the conglomerate.

The Congress, however, in a statement kept Pawar's comment at an arm's length and asserted that the Adani Group matter allegedly "linked" to Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "real and very serious".