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Shimla: Less than 24 hours before the Assembly polls in Himachal Pradesh, the higher reaches of the state on Thursday were wrapped in a thick blanket of snow, while the lower hills were lashed by rain, bringing the temperature down by several notches. There are chances of more rain and snow in the state till […]

Lucknow: They may be each others bitter opponents in politics but the BJP and the Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh are in complete agreement when it comes to doling out freebies to voters for electoral gains. For the Yogi Adityanath government, the distribution of free ration to poor families has been the biggest factor that […]

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is busy preparing for the upcoming Assembly elections in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh to be held later this year, as well as in Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka, Telangana, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in 2023, besides other states. While the BJP is working on a political strategy to help it win above […]

Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao exuded confidence that Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) party will return to power for the third consecutive time in the next Assembly polls with a bumper majority. The recent survey reports indicated that the party would secure 90 per cent seats comfortably. Addressing the plenary, he said the party […]

New Delhi: The political fervour goes high as all eyes are on the counting of votes of Assembly elections in five States including Uttar Pradesh, Goa, Manipur, Punjab and Uttarakhand on Thursday. The elections occurred in 690 assembly constituencies in the above-mentioned five states. Further counting will also take place for the by-polls held in […]

Men, women and first time voters in large numbers queued up in front of the polling stations well before the voting started at 7 a.m. in six electoral districts.

IT cells of various political parties have already prepared lakhs of WhatsApp groups and broadcast lists to reach the smartphones of more than 10-12 crore voters with targeted political messaging.

Noida: The Noida Police seized Rs 4.72 lakh in cash from two people who were transporting the “unaccounted money” in an SUV on Wednesday, days ahead of the Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh. The incident comes a day after police briefly detained two persons and recovered Rs 99 lakh “unaccounted cash” from them. According to […]

Several political parties had approached the EC to postpone the polls in the state in view of Ravidas Jayanti on February 16.

Conducting elections in the midst of a massive surge in coronavirus infections could be a daunting task. The coming round of Assembly polls in five States, including Uttar Pradesh and Punjab, may well be the first elections in India without any physical rallies. Given the bitter experience of the previous round of Assembly polls last […]

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader will visit Goa on Tuesday. The party has decided to contest the assembly polls in the state.

The Calcutta High Court's single bench led by Justice Kausik Chanda passed the order while hearing West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee's election petition.

The alliance comes 27 years after the 1996 Lok Sabha elections when both had bagged 11 out of 13 seats in Punjab.

Assembly elections are scheduled in Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Uttarakhand, Goa and Manipur during February - March next year. Gujarat Assembly polls are also slated for 2022 end.

The DMK chief is set to assume office as Tamil Nadu Chief Minister on May 7 and he would be sworn in as CM in a simple function to be held at the Raj Bhavan.

The victory did not, however, land in Stalin's lap and he worked towards it by reaching out to people systematically by targeting the Centre and state governments on many issues.

He said he was confident about the TMC's victory despite the BJP's attempt to "build a massive propaganda" that it was winning.

As per the Election Commission website, the BJP is leading in 60 out of the total 126 assembly seats.

"The CPI(M)-led LDF will play its due role in this and we expect that the people of Kerala who have always stood up as one will continue to do so in a more stronger manner," he said.

The Election Commission on April 27 had banned all victory processions after counting of votes in states where assembly polls were held to check the spread of coronavirus.