Assembly Polls

The Indigenous People's Front of Tripura, an ally of the BJP in the North-eastern state, will merge with Tripra Motha, a regional political party, on July 2 ahead of the Assembly elections due next year

The counting of votes polled during the recently concluded Rajinder Nagar assembly by-poll in Delhi with all arrangements, including a three-tier security cover will begin at 8 am on Sunday, Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh said.

Polling was by and large peaceful in the bypolls for three Lok Sabha and seven assembly seats spread across five states and Delhi on Thursday barring an incident of stabbing of a policeman in Tripura, where polling was the highest at 76.62 per cent.

Delhi Bypolls: The Congress candidate for the Rajinder Nagar Assembly bypoll in Delhi, Prem Lata, has filed a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) against AAP nominee Durgesh Pathak for "using money power" during campaigning.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday hinted at holding assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir "by this year-end".

Setting in motion the process of holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Election Commission has initiated the revision of electoral rolls following the delimitation exercise in the Union Territory.

The June 23 by-polls to four assembly seats will begin the end of BJP governance in Tripura and the end will be the assembly polls due next year, Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee said on Tuesday.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said he will be the face of the BJP in the next year's assembly elections in the Northeastern state.

Peasants and Workers Party (PWP) Member of the Legislative Assembly(MLA) Shyamsundar Shinde on Sunday refuted Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut's charge that he did not vote for the MVA.

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said that his party will fight the assembly polls in Gujarat.

Srinivas Gowda was asked whom he voted for as he was leaving the assembly complex. "I voted Congress," he said. Asked why, he kept it brief, "Because I love it." He has said that he will quit the HD Kumaraswamy-led JD(S) and join the Congress.

A year after the party's defeat in the high-octane West Bengal Assembly polls, BJP president J P Nadda on Thursday claimed that the party would have come to power had the devastating second wave of Covid not affected the campaigning.

The value of the vote of a Member of Parliament has gone down to 700 from 708 in the presidential poll scheduled for July 18 due to the absence of a legislative assembly in Jammu and Kashmir.

With less than a year for the assembly elections, some BJP leaders have sought to project party strongman BS Yediyurappa's son BY Vijayendra as the future Chief Minister.

Congress MLA and deputy chief whip of Rajasthan Assembly Mahendra Choudhary has demanded that the Election Commission (EC) take action against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as well as Subhash Chandra.

The Indigenous People's Front of Tripura, an ally of the BJP in the North-eastern state, will merge with Tripra Motha, a regional political party, on July 2 ahead of the Assembly elections due next year

The counting of votes polled during the recently concluded Rajinder Nagar assembly by-poll in Delhi with all arrangements, including a three-tier security cover will begin at 8 am on Sunday, Delhi Chief Electoral Officer Ranbir Singh said.

Polling was by and large peaceful in the bypolls for three Lok Sabha and seven assembly seats spread across five states and Delhi on Thursday barring an incident of stabbing of a policeman in Tripura, where polling was the highest at 76.62 per cent.

Delhi Bypolls: The Congress candidate for the Rajinder Nagar Assembly bypoll in Delhi, Prem Lata, has filed a complaint with the Election Commission (EC) against AAP nominee Durgesh Pathak for "using money power" during campaigning.

Defence Minister Rajnath Singh on Friday hinted at holding assembly elections in the Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir "by this year-end".

Setting in motion the process of holding assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the Election Commission has initiated the revision of electoral rolls following the delimitation exercise in the Union Territory.

The June 23 by-polls to four assembly seats will begin the end of BJP governance in Tripura and the end will be the assembly polls due next year, Trinamool Congress National General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee said on Tuesday.

Tripura Chief Minister Manik Saha said he will be the face of the BJP in the next year's assembly elections in the Northeastern state.

Peasants and Workers Party (PWP) Member of the Legislative Assembly(MLA) Shyamsundar Shinde on Sunday refuted Shiv Sena leader Sanjay Raut's charge that he did not vote for the MVA.

All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) president Asaduddin Owaisi on Saturday said that his party will fight the assembly polls in Gujarat.

Srinivas Gowda was asked whom he voted for as he was leaving the assembly complex. "I voted Congress," he said. Asked why, he kept it brief, "Because I love it." He has said that he will quit the HD Kumaraswamy-led JD(S) and join the Congress.

A year after the party's defeat in the high-octane West Bengal Assembly polls, BJP president J P Nadda on Thursday claimed that the party would have come to power had the devastating second wave of Covid not affected the campaigning.

The value of the vote of a Member of Parliament has gone down to 700 from 708 in the presidential poll scheduled for July 18 due to the absence of a legislative assembly in Jammu and Kashmir.

With less than a year for the assembly elections, some BJP leaders have sought to project party strongman BS Yediyurappa's son BY Vijayendra as the future Chief Minister.

Congress MLA and deputy chief whip of Rajasthan Assembly Mahendra Choudhary has demanded that the Election Commission (EC) take action against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as well as Subhash Chandra.