Issuing a rebuttal to Rahul Gandhi’s fresh claims of “match-fixing” in the November 2024 Maharashtra elections, the Election Commission has re-released a document and said the Congress leader’s allegations are “completely absurd”.

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According to a recent World Bank report, India’s extreme poverty rate has significantly declined from 27.1% in 2011–12 to 5.3% in 2022–23. This marks a substantial reduction in the number of people living in extreme poverty, from approximately 344 million to 75 million over the past decade. n18oc_indiaNews18 Mobile App – https://onelink.to/desc-youtube