The debate – and the candidates’ first face-to-face meeting – comes as polling shows the race in a dead heat. 

​The debate – and the candidates’ first face-to-face meeting – comes as polling shows the race in a dead heat.  

Parameswaran Iyer, speaking to News18, said: “It was a programme led by the prime minister, overseen by the prime minister, and I think the results speak for themselves”

CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury’s condition is “critical” and he is on respiratory support at AIIMS in New Delhi, said his party on Tuesday.