Assembly Elections 2013

Despite a tight security blanket thrown over Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit Bastar, the region's Sukma district has seen two encounters and an explosion that have left several security personnel injured.

Vivek Yadav, an AAP candidate from Ujjain re-joined Congress on Tuesday. Mr Yadav quit the grand old party earlier this week after the party did not give him a ticket to contest in the forthcoming assembly polls scheduled to be held next month.

As the first phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections got underway, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said "peace has replaced the 2013 situation" in Muzaffarnagar and the poll result will be different this time.

As Bengal goes on the boil ahead of assembly elections, the infamous chit fund Saradha that collapsed in 2013, costing lakhs of people across West Bengal their hard-earned savings, is edging back to the headlines.

The Congress party, which ruled the state for 15 years until 2013, was not leading on any of the 70 constituencies, according to latest trends.

Alka Lamba left the Congress in 2013 and joined the new party formed by Arvind Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party. Two years later, she went on to win the election to the Delhi assembly from Chandni Chowk constituency. In 2019, she left the AAP and returned to the Congress.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal began a massive roadshow this morning en route to filing his nomination for Assembly elections in the national capital next month

Delhi Assembly elections will be held on February 8 and counting will take place on February 11, with results expected on the same day, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said today.

Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 2013, is expected to join the BJP shortly, ahead of Assembly elections in Haryana next month

Lawmakers without a core Hindutva background, especially those who joined the BJP from other political groups or after winning the 2013 assembly elections as independent candidates, are being viewed with a certain degree of wariness by the party leadership these days.

A Delhi court on Tuesday sentenced AAP MLA Manoj Kumar to three months in jail for obstructing election process at a polling station in Kalyan Puri area of east Delhi during 2013 Assembly polls.

A Delhi court has convicted AAP assembly lawmaker Manoj Kumar for obstructing election process at a polling station in Kalyan Puri area of East Delhi during 2013 assembly polls.

Sachin Pilot, senior Congress leader and till recently, one of the contenders for the top job in Rajasthan, today said sharing power with party veteran Ashok Gehlot just means they had to work "twice as hard".

He flies planes, loves being behind the wheel and helped steer the Congress from the depths of defeat in 2013 to the highs of victory in Rajasthan, but on Friday Sachin Pilot had to settle for the co-driver's seat in the state.

A total of 13 women have been elected to the Chhattisgarh Assembly in 2018, a rise from the 10 and 11 women who became MLAs after the 2013 and 2008 polls respectively, a state election official said today.

Despite a tight security blanket thrown over Chhattisgarh's Maoist-hit Bastar, the region's Sukma district has seen two encounters and an explosion that have left several security personnel injured.

Vivek Yadav, an AAP candidate from Ujjain re-joined Congress on Tuesday. Mr Yadav quit the grand old party earlier this week after the party did not give him a ticket to contest in the forthcoming assembly polls scheduled to be held next month.

As the first phase of Uttar Pradesh assembly elections got underway, farmer leader Rakesh Tikait on Thursday said "peace has replaced the 2013 situation" in Muzaffarnagar and the poll result will be different this time.

As Bengal goes on the boil ahead of assembly elections, the infamous chit fund Saradha that collapsed in 2013, costing lakhs of people across West Bengal their hard-earned savings, is edging back to the headlines.

The Congress party, which ruled the state for 15 years until 2013, was not leading on any of the 70 constituencies, according to latest trends.

Alka Lamba left the Congress in 2013 and joined the new party formed by Arvind Kejriwal, Aam Aadmi Party. Two years later, she went on to win the election to the Delhi assembly from Chandni Chowk constituency. In 2019, she left the AAP and returned to the Congress.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal began a massive roadshow this morning en route to filing his nomination for Assembly elections in the national capital next month

Delhi Assembly elections will be held on February 8 and counting will take place on February 11, with results expected on the same day, Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora said today.

Wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt, who was awarded the Padma Shri in 2013, is expected to join the BJP shortly, ahead of Assembly elections in Haryana next month

Lawmakers without a core Hindutva background, especially those who joined the BJP from other political groups or after winning the 2013 assembly elections as independent candidates, are being viewed with a certain degree of wariness by the party leadership these days.

A Delhi court on Tuesday sentenced AAP MLA Manoj Kumar to three months in jail for obstructing election process at a polling station in Kalyan Puri area of east Delhi during 2013 Assembly polls.

A Delhi court has convicted AAP assembly lawmaker Manoj Kumar for obstructing election process at a polling station in Kalyan Puri area of East Delhi during 2013 assembly polls.

Sachin Pilot, senior Congress leader and till recently, one of the contenders for the top job in Rajasthan, today said sharing power with party veteran Ashok Gehlot just means they had to work "twice as hard".

He flies planes, loves being behind the wheel and helped steer the Congress from the depths of defeat in 2013 to the highs of victory in Rajasthan, but on Friday Sachin Pilot had to settle for the co-driver's seat in the state.

A total of 13 women have been elected to the Chhattisgarh Assembly in 2018, a rise from the 10 and 11 women who became MLAs after the 2013 and 2008 polls respectively, a state election official said today.