Sangabettu Taluk Panchayat elections: BJP-backed candidate wins
Bantwal: While the counting of votes for the Sangabettu taluk panchayat by-election in Bantwal assembly constituency has completed on Sunday, BJP's candidate Prabhakar Prabhu won by a margin of 1089 votes.
While Prabhakar Prabhu secured 3939 votes, Dinesh Sundar Shanti got 2850 votes and 51 votes have been cast for NOTA.
The counting process began at 8 pm on Wednesday at Mini Vidhan Soudha on BC Road Road. Election Officer and Bantwal Tahsildar led the counting process.
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PM Modi, myself don't have 'wife issue': Rahul Gandhi
New Delhi (PTI): In a friendly banter, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi on Friday said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and he didn’t have "the wife issue", as the Congress MP emphasised that everyone has learnt from women in their lives.
Participating in a debate in the Lok Sabha on the three bills introduced for amendments to the women's quota law and setting up a delimitation commission, Gandhi said women are a driving force in the national imagination and national perspective.
"All of us in this room have been influenced, taught, and have learnt a lot from women in our lives – from mothers, sisters, wives," Gandhi said.
"Of course, the prime minister and myself don't have the wife issue, so we don't get that input, but we have our mothers and sisters," he said while referring to Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kiren Rijiju's light-hearted remark that he got a scolding at home as he did not pen a poem for his wife like Union minister Arjun Ram Meghwal did.
Gandhi also lauded his sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi's speech in the Lok Sabha on Thursday.
"Yesterday, I was watching my sister achieve in five minutes what I have not been able to do in 20 years of my political career – make Amit Shah Ji smile," Gandhi said to peals of laughter.
