Bjp Candidate Charged

Two of the three prominent candidates contesting from the Gurugram Lok Sabha constituency are facing criminal charges.

The BJP's heavyweight MP and former wrestling boss Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh won't be contesting the Lok Sabha polls this time. The BJP has instead named his son Karan Bhushan Singh as its candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Kaiserganj

Bansuri Swaraj, the BJP candidate from the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat and daughter of late Union minister Sushma Swaraj, said the values of Sangh run through her veins and that she cannot even think of filling her mother's shoes owing to her stature.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh are among the 195 candidates to lead the BJP charge in the soon-to-be-held Lok Sabha polls.

Jyoti Mirdha, BJP candidate from Nagaur assembly constituency, was booked on charges of fraud in a land dispute, police here said on Tuesday.

Hitting out at the BJP over the alleged misuse of central agencies and the raids and charges against opposition leaders, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has said that every candidate from his party has to defeat four candidates.

Twenty of the total 90 assembly seats will go to polls in the first phase of two-phased elections on November 7. The remaining 70 constituencies will vote on November 17.

Four candidates who won the panchayat elections in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district alleged that they were kidnapped by Trinamool supporters, a charge denied by the state's ruling party.

Rajasthan Police has booked Manikanta Rathod, a BJP candidate in upcoming Karnataka assembly poll, and local BJP MLA Madan Dilawar with charges of murder and criminal intimidation for their remarks against Mallikarjun Kharge, a senior officer said.

Claiming that the Meghalaya poll will be a "watershed election" for the Congress, Ramesh said 47 of its 60 candidates are "below the age of 45 and this has never happened before in any state".

"DMK faces the election pinning their hopes on money power and they presume that anything could be bought with money!," tweeted Annamalai sharing the video on Sunday.

Congress sitting MLA Kanti Kharadi from Scheduled Tribes reserved Danta seat in Banaskantha district in North Gujarat has claimed that he was assaulted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Ladhu Parghi.

The BJP on Friday accused AAP leader Mukesh Goel of demanding money from a junior engineer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for giving gifts to party leaders.

BJP has fielded Payal Kukrani from the very same constituency where the Naroda Patiya massacre took place and her father was one of 32 people convicted on charges of being part of a mob that killed 97 people

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Saturday filed a complaint to the Election Commission of India (ECI) alleging that Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate illegally deposited money into BJP leaders' bank accounts to distribute to the voters.

Two of the three prominent candidates contesting from the Gurugram Lok Sabha constituency are facing criminal charges.

The BJP's heavyweight MP and former wrestling boss Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh won't be contesting the Lok Sabha polls this time. The BJP has instead named his son Karan Bhushan Singh as its candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Kaiserganj

Bansuri Swaraj, the BJP candidate from the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat and daughter of late Union minister Sushma Swaraj, said the values of Sangh run through her veins and that she cannot even think of filling her mother's shoes owing to her stature.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Home Minister Amit Shah, and Defence Minister Rajnath Singh are among the 195 candidates to lead the BJP charge in the soon-to-be-held Lok Sabha polls.

Jyoti Mirdha, BJP candidate from Nagaur assembly constituency, was booked on charges of fraud in a land dispute, police here said on Tuesday.

Hitting out at the BJP over the alleged misuse of central agencies and the raids and charges against opposition leaders, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has said that every candidate from his party has to defeat four candidates.

Twenty of the total 90 assembly seats will go to polls in the first phase of two-phased elections on November 7. The remaining 70 constituencies will vote on November 17.

Four candidates who won the panchayat elections in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district alleged that they were kidnapped by Trinamool supporters, a charge denied by the state's ruling party.

Rajasthan Police has booked Manikanta Rathod, a BJP candidate in upcoming Karnataka assembly poll, and local BJP MLA Madan Dilawar with charges of murder and criminal intimidation for their remarks against Mallikarjun Kharge, a senior officer said.

Claiming that the Meghalaya poll will be a "watershed election" for the Congress, Ramesh said 47 of its 60 candidates are "below the age of 45 and this has never happened before in any state".

"DMK faces the election pinning their hopes on money power and they presume that anything could be bought with money!," tweeted Annamalai sharing the video on Sunday.

Congress sitting MLA Kanti Kharadi from Scheduled Tribes reserved Danta seat in Banaskantha district in North Gujarat has claimed that he was assaulted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Ladhu Parghi.

The BJP on Friday accused AAP leader Mukesh Goel of demanding money from a junior engineer of the Municipal Corporation of Delhi for giving gifts to party leaders.

BJP has fielded Payal Kukrani from the very same constituency where the Naroda Patiya massacre took place and her father was one of 32 people convicted on charges of being part of a mob that killed 97 people

Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) on Saturday filed a complaint to the Election Commission of India (ECI) alleging that Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate illegally deposited money into BJP leaders' bank accounts to distribute to the voters.