Delhi confidential: Poll Position

According to the party, its vote share increased to 4.51% (2,52,671 votes) in 36 Assembly seats it contested this time as compared to 4.14% it recorded in the 2019 Assembly polls when it contested 87 seats.

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BSP Chief Mayawati (File Photo)

It may not have won a single seat in the Haryana Assembly elections, but the state unit of BSP is claiming that its performance has improved significantly.

According to the party, its vote share increased to 4.51% (2,52,671 votes) in 36 Assembly seats it contested this time as compared to 4.14% it recorded in the 2019 Assembly polls when it contested 87 seats.

The BSP fought the Assembly elections in alliance with the INLD in Haryana. Sources in the BSP said the state unit is citing “data analysis” to back its performance because it’s the first Assembly elections it contested under the command of party national coordinator Akash Anand, the nephew and successor of party chief Mayawati.

The Tiger & The Officer

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IN AN interaction with journalists on Monday, Union Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav asked National Tiger Conservation Authority head Gobind Sagar Bharadwaj to recount the story of his near-fatal encounter with a tiger.

Bharadwaj narrated that in the late 1990s, when he was a young forest officer in Rajasthan, a tiger attacked him while he was leading a patrol team near a village.

The tiger pounced on his back, crushing him under its weight, and left him with broken ribs and deep wounds. Bharadwaj said he was lucky the tiger did not go for his jugular and left him alive to tell the tale.

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