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New Delhi, Jan 24 (PTI) These are the top stories from the northern region at 5.30 pm.
ELN7 POLLS-PB-AAP-SIDHU Sidhu calls AAP"s drive to select CM face "scam", urges poll panel to lodge criminal case Chandigarh: Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Monday dubbed AAP’s survey to select its CM face for the state Assembly polls a "scam" and "a deceptive scheme" and said his party has lodged a complaint with the Election Commission against it.
ELX2 POLLS-PB-FAMILIES Punjab Assembly polls: Family members pitch in for contestants Chandigarh: Fifteen-year-old Aekom Warring may be too young for politics but not for canvassing and is busy making a connect with voters in her father Amarinder Singh Raja Warring"s Gidderbaha Assembly constituency in Punjab.
ELX10 POLLS-UP-AAP CANDIDATE-SUICIDE BID AAP candidate tries self-immolation over rejection of his poll nomination papers Muzaffarnagar: AAP candidate Joginder Singh for Miranpur assembly seat allegedly poured kerosene oil over his clothes to immolate himself before the district collectorate office here on Monday over the rejection of his poll nomination paper by the returning officer, police said.
ELX9 POLLS-UP-TIKAIT UP polls: Tikait cautions farmers against attempts to "polarise" society Aligarh (UP): Bharatiya Kisan Union leader Rakesh Tikait has warned farmers from attempts to "polarise" society and divert their attention by vested interests who will rake up "Hindu-Muslim" issues.
DES14 UP-SEER-CM No saint can be CM: Seer on Yogi Adityanath Prayagraj: A saint cannot be a chief minister as after taking the oath of secularism as a constitutional dignitary, he cannot stay "religious", a prominent seer said here on Monday, in an apparent reference to Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.