2012 Assembly Polls

• BJP sweeps Goa, Congress concedes defeat

  The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) will stake its claim to form the next government in Goa and would welcome the support of all independent candidates, state party president Laxmikant Parsenkar said on Tuesday. Parsenkar was speaking to reporters after winning the Mandrem assembly constituency seat by defeating his nearest rival, the Congress's Dayan...

• Election results: Congress set for return to power in Manipur

  Election results: Congress looks good to retain power in Manipur with the party as it has won 12 seats and is leading in another 12 in the 60-member Assembly. The Congress candidate in Tipaimukh constituency Dr Chaltonlien Amo won defeating TMC's Lalumkhum Fimate.

• UP, Goa join Punjab, Uttarakhand to break voter turnout records

  A highest ever voter turnout marked the Assembly elections in five states which ended today with Uttar Pradesh and Goa joining Punjab and Uttarakhand in breaking all previous records.

• UP polls: State records 62 per cent voting in final phase

  Voting in the seven-phased Assembly elections in the politically sensitive state of Uttar Pradesh was at all time high recording an overall turnout of around 60 per cent with the last phase today registering 62 per cent polling.

• Goa: With 81 per cent polling, state records highest voter turnout ever

  BJP's Goa desk in-charge, Aarti Mehra, said the people coming out in huge numbers meant that they wanted a change.

• UP polls: 57 per cent turnout in fourth phase

  A turnout of 57 per cent was today recorded in an incident-free fourth phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls covering Rae Bareli and Amethi, strongholds of Nehru-Gandhi family, and part of backward Bundelkhand region whose development Rahul Gandhi has espoused.

• Why Narendra Modi has been missing in UP polls

  As campaign for Phase IV inches to a close today- there are fears in the party that- that Modi may skip UP totally.

• Uttar Pradesh gears up for second phase of polls tomorrow

  Polling for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 59 seats in 10 districts would be held tomorrow. This will decide the fate of two state presidents, 31 MLAs and 24 former ministers.

• Goa polls: Congress in tailspin over dissidence

  In a move to placate the large-scale dissidence in the party ahead of March 3 Goa Assembly polls, Congress poll managers are pulling all stops to placate the dissenters who have raised the banner of revolt after being denied tickets.

• UP elections: Over 28 per cent polling in first six hours

  After a slow start due to rain, polling for the first phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections picked up by the afternoon with 28.35 per cent of the over 1.70 crore electorate exercising their franchise.

• 'Elephant' haunts Rahul in his dreams: BSP

  BSP National General Secretary Satish Chandra Mishra today said his party symbol elephant haunts Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in his dreams as the Bahujan Samaj Party was all set to "reach" the national capital soon.

• Woman hurls slipper at Mulayam at poll rally

  A woman today hurled a slipper at Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav at an election rally in Baberu area of the district but it fell short of the leader.

• No post-poll alliance with Samajwadi Party in UP: Rahul Gandhi

  Putting an end to the speculations of a post-poll alliance with Samajwadi Party in Uttar Pradesh, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi today said his party will have "no truck" with any party.

• 'Do Rahul-Priyanka have Aladdin lamp for UP?'

  Ruling BSP today attacked Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi for promising to change the face of Uttar Pradesh in five years, wondering if they have acquired "Aladdin's lamp" to make the turnaround.

• Peaceful re-polling in Manipur

  Re-polling at 34 polling booths in five hill districts of Manipur was conducted on Saturday without any violent incident, an official said.