Putting the scrapping of Article 370, which granted special status to Jammu and Kashmir, on top of its election pitch ahead of the assembly polls, the BJP appears to be well-positioned to retain and perhaps even strengthen its fortress in northern Haryana which propelled it to power for the first time in the state in 2014.

The Enforcement Directorate (ED) has summoned Nationalist Congress Party leader Praful Patel on Friday in an alleged case of money laundering as part of its broader probe into allegations of terror financing against deceased drug lord Iqbal Memon, alias Iqbal Mirchi. The agency wants to question Patel in connection with a property confirmation deed involving Millennium Developers, which is owned by the Opposition leader.

The Congress is pained whenever the country and its people are happy and proud, whether it's the issue of scrapping of Article 370 in J&K or the IAF receiving the first Rafale fighter-jet, PM Modi said in two poll rallies in Haryana on Tuesday. "Modi will stop this water and bring it to your houses. I will fight for you," Modi said in Charki-Dadri.