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1. The Bharatiya Janata Party has convened core committee meetings at the party headquarters to deliberate on potential candidates for various states for the Lok Sabha polls. The states of Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, West Bengal, Haryana, Odisha, Sikkim, Maharashtra and Gujarat were discussed in the meeting. BJP National President JP Nadda chaired the meeting, while Union Home Minister Amit Shah and party National General Secretary BL Santosh were present in the meeting. 2. Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray and state deputy chief minister Devendra Fadnavis meet Home Minister Amit Shah. There is a strong buzz that (MNS) chief Raj Thackeray is likely to join forces with the BJP-Shiv Sena (Eknath Shinde-led) alliance in the state ahead of Lok Sabha elections. 3. The BJP has clinched a seat-sharing deal with the Dr S Ramadoss-headed Pattali Makkal Katchi in Tamil Nadu for the April 19 Lok Sabha polls, allotting 10 seats to the regional party. BJP state president K Annamalai and PMK founder Ramadoss have signed the pact at the Thailapuram residence of the latter here. The PMK is a Vanniyar community-dominated party and has significant influence in some of the northern districts of the state. 4. This is election hurdle with CWC meeting that is going to be taking place this morning in order to to finalise the manifesto but later the evening Kharge will be chairing that meeting as far as the Congress party is concerned. Their CEC meeting in order to finalise the candidates as far as the next list is concerned. 5. Amid the row over the Centre's move to implement the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) weeks before Lok Sabha election, the Supreme Court will hear today a batch of 237 petitions challenging the law. A bench led by Chief Justice of India DY Chandrachud and comprising Justice JB Pardiwala and Justice Manoj Misra will hear the matter. 6. A 20-year-old Indian student found dead in the US with his family alleging that he was murdered. Abhijeeth Paruchuru, a resident of Burripalem in Andhra Pradesh's Guntur district, was an engineering student at Boston University, while his parents, Paruchuri Chakradhar and Srilakshmi Boruna, were based in Connecticut, officials say.