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A special CBI court in Panchkula on Monday awarded life imprisonment to all the accused, including Dera Sacha Sauda's Gurmeet Ram Rahim and four others in the Ranjit Singh murder case. A fine of Rs 31 Lakhs has been levied on Ram Rahim and Rs 50,000 on the remaining accused.

The other four convicted in the case are Krishan Lal, Jasbir Singh, Avtar Singh, and Sabdil. Krishan and Jasbir have been asked to pay Rs 1.25 lakh each, Avtar is asked to pay Rs 75,000 and Abdil has been told to pay Rs 1.5 lakh.

Reacting to reports that the BJP would deny tickets to at least 150 aspirants in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh assembly polls, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday exuded confidence that his party will claim victory on over 300 seats in the 403-seat state assembly.

"It has been heard that BJP is going to cut tickets of its 150 MLAs. 100 MLAs sat on protest in the State Assembly against CM Yogi Adityanath. We already have 50 MLAs. So the calculation is simple, we’ve crossed 300 seats," Yadav said.

Ahead of the bypolls to two constituencies in Karnataka on October 30, the Karnataka Congress attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the ruling BJP on Twitter.

In a tweet, the official handle of Karnataka Congress used the phrase 'angootha chhaap' to insinuate that PM Modi is illiterate.

The Opposition party wrote in Kannada, "Congress built schools but Modi never went to study. Congress even set up schemes for adults to learn, Modi didn't learn there too. Even though begging is prohibited, people who are lazy have made the country's people beggars. The country is suffering because of #angoothachhaapmodi."

Ahead of the assembly bypolls in Rajasthan, the BJP on Sunday released a 'black paper' against Congress, claiming unfulfilled promises and misgovernance by the state government.

Two assembly bypolls are scheduled to be conducted in Dhariawad and Vallabh Nagar constituencies in Rajasthan on October 30, with the poll result being declared on November 2..

Ahead of the upcoming bye-election, the BJP lashed out at the Congress at its party headquarter in Jaipur, accusing it of not fulfilling its promises.