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The Election Commission of India has directed employers to grant paid holidays to voters on polling day in states and UTs headed for Assembly elections and bypolls, warning that violations will attract penalties under the Representation of the People Act.

BRS working president KT Rama Rao dared CM Revanth Reddy to make defected MLAs face bypolls, calling it a referendum on Congress’s 20-month rule. Addressing party workers, he also attacked the government over HYDRAA, alleging blackmail and targeting of the poor.

CM says past governments inducted defected MLAs into Cabinet without facing bypolls and that his government was following the same tradition; Harish raises a point of order and questioning legality of discussing a case that was pending before Supreme Court

AAP's Mohinder Bhagat wins Jalandhar West, Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu's wife and Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur bags Dehra seat

In Punjab, AAP's Jalandhar West Assembly bypoll candidate Mohinder Bhagat heading towards victory

Drawing the stark contrast between the candidates, the BRS working president urged voters to elect deserving and worthy individuals to the legislative council.

Earlier in the day, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav congratulated party candidate Sudhakar Singh for his performance in Ghosi assembly bypoll.

The counting of votes polled in the bypoll held in Puthuppally constituency here, which saw an intense battle between the ruling LDF and opposition UDF, began

The bypolls will be held for two seats in Tripura, and one seat each in Kerala, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand

In a neck and neck race, TRS candidate K. Prabhakar Reddy was leading by 2,169 votes against his nearest rival K. Rajagopal Reddy. 

he BJP has taken an early lead in four seats spread across Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Odisha and Bihar, while the ruling TRS was ahead of its rivals in Telangana's Munugode as counting of votes got underway on Sunday for the bypolls to seven assembly constituencies in six states.

Counting of votes in each round and official confirmation was taking about 25 to 30 minutes, he said while addressing media persons here on Sunday.

New Delhi/Lucknow/Agartala: Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha was among the victorious BJP candidates in the by-poll results announced on Sunday as the party bagged three out of four assembly seats in the eastern state and wrested the Samajwadi Party strongholds of Rampur and Azamgarh Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Pradesh, while the AAP lost Punjab’s […]

Shillong: Nearly 50 years after it was carved out of Assam as a full-fledged state in 1972, the demand to further bifurcate Meghlaya on ethnic lines has surfaced with two local parties forming a coordination committee for this purpose, ahead of the bye-elections to three Assembly seats on October 30. The Hill State People’s Democratic […]

Hyderabad: Has the Congress thrown in the towel even before the fight began or is it a diabolical attempt to hurt the TRS’ prospects in the October 30 Huzurabad Assembly constituency by-poll, even if it means throwing ideology to the winds? These are the question doing the rounds in political circles ever since the Grand […]

In his tweet, CM said, Today, the results for bypolls will be declared. I appeal to all to avoid any kind of celebration, crowd gathering or lighting firecrackers.

The staff, counting agents and media persons, who test negative for Covid in Rapid Antigen Test would only to be allowed into the counting centre

These municipal wards are Rohini-C, Shalimar Bagh (North), Trilokpuri, Kalyanpuri and Chauan Banger.

With this, the BJP now has 126 MLAs in the 230-member House, while the Congress has 96 legislators.

The Prime Minister said that BJP's win in Telangana's Dubbak is historic and lauded efforts of party workers.