Though Kumaraswamy has paid the penalty, he has lambasted the ruling Congress government for being unjust and for filing a flawed First Information Report (FIR).
KCR, the first Chief Minister of Telangana who is in power since 2014, is seeking a third consecutive term by defeating the belligerent Congress and beleaguered BJP.
It has come to revelation that both the parties are pouring electoral prospects to the candidates with criminal cases, though Congress leads BJP in this regard.
For the first time in recent years, the Congress party in Madhya Pradesh has played out a mass expulsion - ousting 39 leaders from the party at one shot ahead of the crucial assembly polls.
46-year-old Sachin Pilot is a Congress leader in Rajasthan and he has been dissenting against the Congress government led by Ashok Gehlot in the state.
Union IT Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw told reporters that the government is taking the matter seriously and said that Apple's warning message was not unique to India but had been issued globally.
As per the original schedule, Rajasthan ought to go for a single-phased polling on November 23- Thursday. However, the revised schedule has deferred the polling date to two days and it will be held on November 25.
While Telangana has been the only, and indeed powerful fortress of the BRS, Chandrasekhar Rao is beefing up the race to retain the reign for the third consecutive time.