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Lucknow: BSP president Mayawati on Friday demanded a high-level inquiry into the death of gangster-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, saying the truth of the case needs to come before the public. Ansari, 63, died of cardiac arrest at a hospital in Banda district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. In a
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Talking to reporters at the state party office on her birthday, she categorically denied reports in a section of the media about her retirement from politics.
The party's official statement, however, did not mention any such decision.
A jawan of the ITBP was killed in a blast triggered by Naxalites in Gariaband district of the state when a polling team being escorted by security personnel was returning after conducting voting, officials said.
A video of the incident went viral on social media platforms on Tuesday, following which the police registered a case against the accused, identified as Pravesh Shukla.
The bypolls were conducted for two Assembly seats in Uttar Pradesh, one each in Meghalaya and Odisha and the Jalandhar Lok Sabha constituency in Punjab.
Voter counting is scheduled to be held on May 13.
The feeling within the Congress is that the party was being treated as a poor cousin, even though it had heavyweights like former chief minister Ashok Chavan, and former PCC president Balasaheb Thorat as ministers.