This is unprecedented not just in panchayat elections but also in the history of Indian elections,” the well-known psephologist Biswanath Chakraborty said. 'Meghan claimed this was an 'unfortunately inaccurate' portrayal of her letter, stressing numerous times that she had known nothing of her closest friends' decision to go public.She disclosed a list of those she had discussed the 'private' letter with in the papers lodged with the High Court - two of her friends, Prince Harry, her mother Doria Ragland, the press team at Kensington Palace (KP), and her solicitor.Her lawyers told the High Court she had told 'some of her friends' about the fact she had sent a letter, adding that she had also 'discussed the contents of the letter with her husband, her mother, Friends A and C, the KP Communications Team and her solicitor'.Meghan insisted more than a dozen times in last week's legal document that she had no prior knowledge of her friends' interview with People.She added that she was so uninvolved in 'the process of the People article' that she only found out about it on the day it was published'. Photo: DIPTENDU DUTTA/AFP CELEBRATIONS over the three-tier panchayat elections in West Bengal began nearly a month before the first vote was cast.

It could not possibly be suggested otherwise. The expression comes from the French language.. 'Meghan claimed this was an 'unfortunately inaccurate' portrayal of her letter, stressing numerous times that she had known nothing of her closest friends' decision to go public.She disclosed a list of those she had discussed the 'private' letter with in the papers lodged with the High Court - two of her friends, Prince Harry, her mother Doria Ragland, the press team at Kensington Palace (KP), and her solicitor.Her lawyers told the High Court she had told 'some of her friends' about the fact she had sent a letter, adding that she had also 'discussed the contents of the letter with her husband, her mother, Friends A and C, the KP Communications Team and her solicitor'.Meghan insisted more than a dozen times in last week's legal document that she had no prior knowledge of her friends' interview with People.She added that she was so uninvolved in 'the process of the People article' that she only found out about it on the day it was published'.Meghan Markle believes naming the five female friends who briefed People magazine about her and a letter sent to her father Thomas would be an 'unacceptable price to pay' for pursuing a claim against the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, the High Court heard today.Today a skeleton argument presented to the court by Meghan's legal team said: 'To disclose their identities to the public at this stage is an unacceptable price to pay for the right to pursue her claim for invasion of privacy'.But in an embarrassing moment during the application Meghan's QC Justin Rushbrooke accidentally said the surname of one of the five friends the Duchess of Sussex is seeking to keep anonymous.Judge Mr Justice Warby, who is expected to rule on the matter before August 8, immediately directed that the individual's name was not to be reported.The five women were named as the sources of a People Magazine article in 2019 in legal papers submitted by Meghan to the court earlier this month, although their identities were not made public.The People article lies at the heart of her privacy and copyright case against the Mail on Sunday because it was the first time the existence of a letter the Duchess had written to her father Thomas was revealed.In response Antony White, QC for Associated Newspapers, the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and MailOnline, told the court that the principle of open justice in Britain means the five friends should be named.

The barrister added: 'The information they disclosed to People was information about the claimant, but is not said by her to be private or information that she seeks to protect. I have one father. The sudden volte face by the MDC secretary general Douglas Mwonzora to withdraw from the presidential race against party president Nelson Chamisa in the eleventh hour has left him bruised but ready to fight again if he survives at the May 24-26 congress billed for Gweru.