These are the top stories from the northern region at 5.45 pm
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Chandigarh: A Punjab minister Saturday sought Navjot Singh Sidhu's resignation over his jibe at Chief Minister Amarinder Singh, even as the cricketer-turned-politician backtracked on his claim that Congress president Rahul Gandhi had sent him to Pakistan for the Kartarpur corridor event.
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Jodhpur: As poll campaign gains momentum in Rajasthan, former chief minister Ashok Gehlot's home turf Jodhpur is bracing for an interesting fight with the Congress putting all its efforts on 10 seats of the district, of which the BJP had swept nine in the last assembly elections in 2013.
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Jaipur: BJP chief Amit Shah Saturday alleged that Congress president Rahul Gandhi was insulting slain Army soldiers by claiming that the 2016 surgical strike across the LoC was conducted to win the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections.
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Jaipur: Congress president Rahul Gandhi Saturday accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of shaping the Army's 2016 surgical strike across the LoC into a "political asset" and being "unsuccessful" in creating job opportunities for the youth.
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Jammu: Union minister and senior BJP leader Jitendra Singh Saturday said his party respects Governor Satya Pal Malik's decision of dissolving the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly, as it believes in maintaining the sanctity of the country's constitutional institutions.
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Srinagar: Polling for the sixth phase of the nine-phased panchayat election began at over 3,100 polling stations in Jammu and Kashmir Saturday, officials said.
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New Delhi: A 52-year-old farmer from Maharashtra, who had participated in a two-day kisan rally in Delhi against the agrarian distress in the country, died early Saturday after accidentally falling from a building in central Delhi, police said.
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