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[ad_1] It could well be a highly contested battle in the scenic Nilgiris, which will go to polls in the first phase of the Lok Sabha elections on April 19. Sitting MP and DMK candidate A Raja will be up against union minister and BJP candidate L Murugan, amid allegations of favouritism towards the former telecom minister by the electoral officer in the Lok Sabha constituency. This constituency, which…

[ad_1] Saharanpur comprises five assembly segments: Behat (Samajwadi Party), Saharanpur Nagar (Bharatiya Janata Party), Saharanpur (SP), Deoband (BJP), and Rampur Maniharan (BJP). Representational image/PTI Haji Fazlur Rehman from the Bahujan Samaj Party is currently the MP from Saharanpur. The key candidates for the election this time are Raghav Lakhanpal from the BJP, Congress’s Imran Masood, and Majid Ali from the BSP. Saharanpur will have voting on April 19, in…

[ad_1] Last Updated: April 16, 2024, 23:53 IST RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav addresses during ‘Jan Vishwas Rally’, in Patna. (Image: PTI) The former deputy chief minister remarked while referring to the absence of Kumar, the JD(U) president, from rallies addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at Gaya and Purnea earlier in the day RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday questioned the absence of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar from…

[ad_1] His entry into the BJP is yet another jolt to the youth wing of the grand old party. Image/X He also stated that about 100 Congress workers have joined the BJP along with him and cadres of the Aam Aadmi Party too have switched to the saffron party The Delhi unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Tuesday welcomed yet another former spokesperson of the Congress, Prateek…

[ad_1] Volunteers of AAP Student Wing Chatr-Yuva Sangharsh Samiti on Tuesday staged a protest against the arrest of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s by Enforcement Directorate in the excise policy case. The students held a torch march in the national capital today, which the Aam Aadmi Party termed as “the torch of struggle”, and “the answer to the tyranny of a dictator”.  Kejriwal was arrest on March 21 in…

[ad_1] Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Rekha Patra, one of the victims of the Sandeshkhali atrocities who has been given a BJP ticket from Basirhat for LS Polls’Telangana’s political scene has witnessed a significant shift. Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan has submitted her resignation to the President, marking her re-entry into direct politics. Amid Prime Minister Modi’s visit to Raj Bhavan, discussions regarding Tamilisai’s candidature as a BJP Member of…

[ad_1] Amid the Opposition charge of being targeted by central probe agencies in the poll season, the Election Commission on Tuesday said it is committed to protecting level playing field but asserted that it is not correct to take any step that can overlap the legal and judicial process. Several political parties from the INDIA bloc had approached the poll panel seeking its intervention in the alleged misuse of…

[ad_1] The Election Commission banned Congress leader Randeep Surjewala on Tuesday from campaigning for 48 hours over his “derogatory remarks” about BJP leader Hema Malini.  The poll body issued a show-cause notice to Surjewala for allegedly making “undignified, uncivilized, and vulgar” remarks about Hema Malini. It stated that it carefully reviewed the contents and statements provided in Surjewala’s reply. “The commission without prejudice to any order/notice issued or to…

[ad_1] West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said some people recently pointed at her car calling her a thief and warned that she would have pulled their tongue if it was not the election season. “Some people were shouting ‘chor chor’, (pointing towards) my car. I would have pulled out their tongue if elections were not there. However, I didn’t say anything because of the elections,” says…

[ad_1] Udhampur Lok Sabha constituency is one of the six Parliamentary constituencies in the UT of Jammu and Kashmir. The constituency covers 20,230 square kilometre of mountainous Himalayan terrain, and is comparable to the size of Israel and is the biggest constituency in terms of geographical area. There are 17 assembly constituencies which make up the Lok Sabha constituency of Udhampur from four districts of Kishtwar, Doda, Udhampur and…

[ad_1] In a concerning revelation, a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR) and National Election Watch has noted an alarming prevalence of criminal cases among candidates contesting the Lok Sabha elections.  According to the report, a staggering 21% of the 1192 candidates contesting in Phase 2 of the Lok Sabha elections have declared criminal cases against them. The report further said that out of these candidates, 167…

[ad_1] Last Updated: April 16, 2024, 15:13 IST Trinamool Congress on Tuesday announced to take out a ‘shobha yatra’ in Howrah on the occasion of Ram Navami on Wednesday. The announcement came as Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while addressing a rally in Bengal’s Balurghat, was attacking chief minister Mamata Banerjee for “trying to obstruct BJP’s Ram Navami’s plan and opposing CAA”. [ad_2] Source link

[ad_1] Democratic Progressive Azad Party (DPAP) president Ghulam Nabi Azad believes that Congress is “allied with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)” and it wants the saffron party to win the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.  The Lok Sabha polls are scheduled to be held in seven phases starting on April 19.  “Around 23 leaders were earlier fighting for a change in Congress. But the top leadership did not listen. When…

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[ad_1] The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has fielded Athar Jamal Lari against Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Varanasi parliamentary constituency, which goes to polls in the last phase of Lok Sabha elections on June 1. Varanasi is the stronghold of Prime Minister Narendra Modi who has won the seat twice in 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha elections. The Mayawati-led political party released a list of candidates for 11 parliamentary…

[ad_1] Road Transport and Highways Minister Nitin Gadkari is aiming to win a hattrick from Nagpur in Lok Sabha Elections 2024. He snatched this Congress bastion away in the 2014 polls and cemented his position further 5 years later. This time, he has set a target of winning by over 5 lakh votes. One may ask what really works for ‘Roadkari’, as he is lovingly called, in this part…

[ad_1] Last Updated: April 16, 2024, 09:53 IST Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai during the closing ceremony of the BJP’s ‘En Mann Ek Makkal’ padyatra, near Palladam in Tirupur on February 27, 2024. (PTI) Coimbatore Lok Sabha elections: Candidates in the fray inclue Tamil Nadu BJP president K Annamalai, DMK leader Ganapathy P Rajkumar and AIADMK’s Singai Ramachandran Coimbatore Lok Sabha seat will…

[ad_1] Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who is in Tihar jail, will meet two ministers each week and review the progress of the work in their departments, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) said.  Arrested by the Enforcement Directorate on March 21, Kejriwal is currently in judicial custody. Party’s Rajya Sabha member Sandeep Pathak and Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann met Kejriwal in Tihar jail on April 15. Pathak, who is…