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This research study proposed a framework to explore the performance of the conventional (NB, DT, SVM), ensemble learning (RF, AdaBoost) and deep learning-based (DBN, CNN-LSTM, and RNN) machine learning techniques. The proposed method is feature centric and extracted the (sentiment, content, tweet specific and part-of-speech) features from both datasets of SemEval2016 and SemEval2017. The proposed study has also explored the role of deep features such as GloVe and Word2Vec for stance classification which has not received attention yet for stance detection. Some base line features such as Bag of words, N-gram, TF-IDF are also extracted from both datasets to compare the proposed features along with deep features. The proposed features are ranked using feature ranking methods such as (information gain, gain ration and relief-f). Further, the results are evaluated using standard performance evaluation measures for stance classification with existing studies. 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