Surat Lok Sabha Elections

The counting of votes for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections began at 8 am on Tuesday. However, even before the first official trends trickled in, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had already bagged the Surat Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat.

The Election Commission can intervene if a candidate is pressured into withdrawing nomination, but not when it's consensual, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said today.

Suspended Congress leader Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form was rejected over discrepancies leading to BJP winning the Surat Lok Sabha seat, resurfaced on Saturday after 20 days and alleged it was Congress that had betrayed him first in 2017.

In a big setback to Congress, its Lok Sabha candidate from Indore, Akshay Bam, dropped out of the race and joined BJP, just days before the constituency goes to polls.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered its first win in the Lok Sabha elections after its candidate from Gujarat's Surat constituency, Mukesh Dalal, was elected unopposed.

Mukesh Dalal, the BJP candidate for the Lok Sabha who was declared winner from the Surat parliamentary constituency after several withdrawals and disqualifications of opposition candidates, has said that the development symbolises the beginning of a

The BJP's Mukesh Dalal has become the first candidate in the last 12 years to win a Lok Sabha election unopposed. He is also perhaps the first candidate from the BJP to have ever won a parliamentary poll unopposed.

BJP's Mukesh Dalal is set to be elected unopposed from the Surat Lok Sabha seat after all other candidates withdrew from the contest, the party's Gujarat unit chief CR Paatil said today.

The candidature of Congress' Nilesh Kumbhani from Surat Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat was rejected on Sunday after the district returning officer prima facie found discrepancies in the signature of the proposers.

The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the Congress' substitute candidate from Surat, was also invalidated, pushing Gujarat's principal opposition party out of the poll fray in the city.

Vivek Ajmera, owner of an ice-cream parlour in Surat, Gujarat is celebrating the landslide victory of the BJP in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections by introducing ''Modi Sitafal Kulfi'', which features Prime Minister Narendra Modi's face on it.

A group of women in Gujarat's Surat on Saturday performed a ''yagna'' ritual to please Lord Shani to ensure that the son of the soil and Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins a second term with huge majority in Lok Sabha elections.

In the backdrop of nationwide shock and outrage over the Kathua, Unnao and Surat rape cases, an analysis in the Association for Democratic Reforms Report (ADR), 2017, says 33 per cent of the lawmakers in states and elected leaders in Lok Sabha are facing cases related to crimes against women

The counting of votes for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections began at 8 am on Tuesday. However, even before the first official trends trickled in, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had already bagged the Surat Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat.

The Election Commission can intervene if a candidate is pressured into withdrawing nomination, but not when it's consensual, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said today.

Suspended Congress leader Nilesh Kumbhani, whose nomination form was rejected over discrepancies leading to BJP winning the Surat Lok Sabha seat, resurfaced on Saturday after 20 days and alleged it was Congress that had betrayed him first in 2017.

In a big setback to Congress, its Lok Sabha candidate from Indore, Akshay Bam, dropped out of the race and joined BJP, just days before the constituency goes to polls.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) registered its first win in the Lok Sabha elections after its candidate from Gujarat's Surat constituency, Mukesh Dalal, was elected unopposed.

Mukesh Dalal, the BJP candidate for the Lok Sabha who was declared winner from the Surat parliamentary constituency after several withdrawals and disqualifications of opposition candidates, has said that the development symbolises the beginning of a

The BJP's Mukesh Dalal has become the first candidate in the last 12 years to win a Lok Sabha election unopposed. He is also perhaps the first candidate from the BJP to have ever won a parliamentary poll unopposed.

BJP's Mukesh Dalal is set to be elected unopposed from the Surat Lok Sabha seat after all other candidates withdrew from the contest, the party's Gujarat unit chief CR Paatil said today.

The candidature of Congress' Nilesh Kumbhani from Surat Lok Sabha seat in Gujarat was rejected on Sunday after the district returning officer prima facie found discrepancies in the signature of the proposers.

The nomination form of Suresh Padsala, the Congress' substitute candidate from Surat, was also invalidated, pushing Gujarat's principal opposition party out of the poll fray in the city.

Vivek Ajmera, owner of an ice-cream parlour in Surat, Gujarat is celebrating the landslide victory of the BJP in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections by introducing ''Modi Sitafal Kulfi'', which features Prime Minister Narendra Modi's face on it.

A group of women in Gujarat's Surat on Saturday performed a ''yagna'' ritual to please Lord Shani to ensure that the son of the soil and Prime Minister Narendra Modi wins a second term with huge majority in Lok Sabha elections.

In the backdrop of nationwide shock and outrage over the Kathua, Unnao and Surat rape cases, an analysis in the Association for Democratic Reforms Report (ADR), 2017, says 33 per cent of the lawmakers in states and elected leaders in Lok Sabha are facing cases related to crimes against women