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Voters Stood With Us Despite BJP Exerting Full Might: Abhijit Wanjari

Congress candidate Abhijit Wanjari retained the Nagpur Division Graduates seat in the Maharashtra Legislative Council elections, defeating the Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Sudhakar Kohale by a margin of 3,271 votes after a 41-hour counting process. Reacting to his win, Wanjari stated that the BJP deployed all its leaders across Maharashtra to campaign aggressively in Nagpur, yet voters chose to back him. He credited his victory to the united effort of the Maha Vikas Aghadi, party workers, and 48 supporting organisations. The result marks the only victory for the Congress across 28 seats contested in MLC elections across four states, including Karnataka and Bihar. Nagpur is widely seen as an RSS bastion and the political home turf of Union Minister Nitin Gadkari and Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis. The win provides a morale boost for the Congress party following its…

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Fiancé of former Senate candidate Haley Stevens says he's voting for Mike Rogers

DETROIT — Days before the Nov. 3 election, the Democratic fiancé of former Senate hopeful Haley Stevens declared he intends to vote for Republican Mike Rogers for U.S. Senate, saying he's become convinced over the last three months that Democrat Abdul El-Sayed is an antisemite. Jason Turkish, a Jewish Democrat and disabilities and civil rights attorney from Huntington Woods, is engaged to be married to U.S. Rep. Stevens of Birmingham, whom El-Sayed narrowly defeated in the Aug. 4 Democratic primary. "I’ve just seen an escalation in his rhetoric since the primary, and it makes folks unsafe. Every time he talks about genocide (in Gaza), Jews get death threats," Turkish told The Detroit News about El-Sayed, a long-time critic of the Israeli government. "We have never seen a candidate for U.S. Senate act so recklessly toward the safety of Jews in the community as we have seen from Abdul."…

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9 Massachusetts ballot questions explained: What a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ vote means

Massachusetts voters will face a series of ballot questions covering everything from marijuana sales and election laws to government transparency, conservation, and housing. Ballot question wording can be complicated, so Boston 25 News is breaking down what each proposal would do and what a "yes" or "no" vote means. Here's a quick guide to nine of the questions Massachusetts voters will see, with links to our full explainers. Question 1 asks voters whether most records held by the Massachusetts Legislature and governor's office should become subject to the state's Public Records Law. A "yes" vote would expand the law to cover most records from those branches, while a "no" vote would leave the current law unchanged. Why it matters: Supporters say the change would increase transparency on Beacon Hill and give taxpayers more information about government decisions and spending. Why it…

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Ilhan Omar’s Muslim husband ‘disgusted’ by ‘dirty dandy brother’ she wed coming to live with them: source

Ilhan Omar’s first husband was “embarrassed” when her effeminate “brother” — who she is accused of marrying — came to live with them in Minnesota, a family friend told The Post. The congresswoman (D-Minn.) had two young children with Ahmed Hirsi, when she suddenly split from him in 2009. She then quickly married an “extremely feminine Somali guy from London,” Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, fond of wearing short shorts with cowboy boots. She was able to do this as she had only been wed to Ahmed in a 2002 Islamic ceremony which was not recognized by the state. One of Hirsi’s close friends claimed Omar and her first husband were actually still together, and Elmi suddenly moving in caused strain on their relationship. The legal marriage was reportedly so he could get “papers” to start a new life in the US, as The Post has previously reported. “The whole community was gossiping about [Elmi] when he…

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