From India's third-largest tribal community, the Santhal, Murmu was the recipient of training from the BJP-run Vanvasi Seva Ashram system in Odisha
The candidature of Yashwant Sinha for the Presidential poll has more or less united the opposition but the balance is tilting towards NDA candidate Draupadi Murmu
This is for the first time that the TMC has managed to win a seat in the GTA, alongside the newly floated Hamro Party and the Bharatiya Gorkha Prajatantrik Morcha
Leaders of several opposition parties said the presidential election is a fight between two ideologies and not about individuals as their candidate Yashwant Sinha filed his nomination for the poll
Opposition's presidential candidate Yashwant Sinha on Monday filed his nomination papers for the July 18 election.
Yashwant Sinha was chosen as the consensus candidate for presidential polls from the Joint Opposition in a meeting on June 21
Though AAP has lost the seat, it retained its vote share with a meagre fall from 37 per cent to 35 per cent, says Raghav Chadha
In bypoll results announced on Sunday, the BJP stunned the Samajwadi Party by wresting the two seats considered its pocket-boroughs
The BJP consolidated its position in Tripura winning 3 of the 4 assembly seats; In Delhi's Rajinder Nagar, AAP's Durgesh Pathak defeated BJP candidate Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of over 11,000 votes
His assertion proved prophetic on Sunday as he wrested the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat from the Aam Aadmi Party -- his first electoral victory in 23 years
The results of three Lok Sabha and seven Assembly constituencies spread in different states where bypolls were held on June 23 were declared on Sunday
'The BJP's double engine government has secured double victory in the state under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi'
YSRC's Mekapati Vikram Reddy secured 1,02,241 votes against his rival G Bharat Kumar Yadav of the BJP, who managed to get only 19,353
In Rampur, BJP had fielded Ghanshyam Singh Lodhi who recently joined the party; whereas, SP candidate Asim Raja was handpicked by Azam Khan
BJP nominee Swapna Das (Paul) bagged the Surma (SC) seat thrashing her independent rival Baburam Satnami by a margin of 4583 votes
BJP's Dinesh Lal Yadav 'Nirahua' is leading over SP's Dharmendra Yadav, his nearest rival at Azamgarh. In Tripura byelections, the BJP has bagged three assembly seats while Congress won one
SAD (Amritsar) Simranjit Singh Mann appears to be inching towards victory from the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat, having gained a lead of over 7,000 votes over his nearest AAP rival Gurmail Singh
Aam Aadmi Party's Durgesh Pathak defeated BJP candidate Rajesh Bhatia by a margin of over 11,000 votes in Rajinder Nagar assembly bypoll here, officials said
Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha won the by-election from the Town Bardowali seat by a margin of 6,104 on Sunday
Aam Aadmi Party and SAD (Amritsar) candidates are neck and neck in the Sangrur Lok Sabha seat, according to initial trends available for the bypoll