Children In Election Campaign

In a significant development, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Friday took cognisance of a report on 'X' accusing PDP President and Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat candidate Mehbooba Mufti of using school children

Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission on Monday asked political parties not to use children in campaigning "in any form whatsoever", including for distribution of posters and pamphlets or sloganeering.

The Congress has asked the Election Commission to take action against parties and their leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for alleged "misuse" of children in their political campaigns.

At Shaheen Bagh, which became the nucleus of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) versus BJP battle for the Delhi election, voting took place on Saturday amid heavy security. Long queues were seen at polling stations in Shaheen Bagh, which has been in the headlines for the massive anti-citizenship law protest, featuring mainly women and children, for nearly t...

Children could be seen actively participating in the election campaign of Kirron Kher shouting slogans - "Vote for Kirron Kher and Ab ki baar Modi Sarkar".

A video featuring Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and a group of children in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi has generated a buzz on social media. The Congress leader is seen clamping her mouth in shock when a profanity crops up in the interaction.

The BJP has set itself a big target ahead of next year's Lok Sabha elections: Attracting the 2 crore Millennial voters - children born in 2000, who will cast their first General Election votes in 2019. Banking on its strong social media skills, the party is building its "Millennium Voter Campaign" around an app. The programme will be launched on Ja...

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There are many documents that highlight the plight of the women and displaced children of Muzaffarnagar, and it is highly unlikely that both Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav are not privy to them. So when both leaders who are looking at a possible assembly victory as their big ticket for 2019, look the other way while campaigning in Uttar Pradesh, h...

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Hitting back at BJP over its jibe of return of "jungle raj" in Bihar if the grand alliance is voted to power in the state, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today questioned whether there was 'Mangal raj' in Haryana where two children of a Dalit family were allegedly burnt to death.

On a day when the BJP government in Haryana announced a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the murder of two Dalit children, who were burnt alive in their house, the politics over the incident is just beginning to escalate a few thousand kilometres away in poll-bound Bihar.

Rehan and Miraya Vadra, accompanying mother Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as she campaigns in Uttar Pradesh, makes for more than just a rare photo-op. For, the older denizens of Amethi say it makes for a walk down memory lane.

In a significant development, the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) on Friday took cognisance of a report on 'X' accusing PDP President and Anantnag-Rajouri Lok Sabha seat candidate Mehbooba Mufti of using school children

Ahead of Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission on Monday asked political parties not to use children in campaigning "in any form whatsoever", including for distribution of posters and pamphlets or sloganeering.

The Congress has asked the Election Commission to take action against parties and their leaders, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi, for alleged "misuse" of children in their political campaigns.

At Shaheen Bagh, which became the nucleus of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) versus BJP battle for the Delhi election, voting took place on Saturday amid heavy security. Long queues were seen at polling stations in Shaheen Bagh, which has been in the headlines for the massive anti-citizenship law protest, featuring mainly women and children, for nearly t...

Children could be seen actively participating in the election campaign of Kirron Kher shouting slogans - "Vote for Kirron Kher and Ab ki baar Modi Sarkar".

A video featuring Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and a group of children in Uttar Pradesh's Amethi has generated a buzz on social media. The Congress leader is seen clamping her mouth in shock when a profanity crops up in the interaction.

The BJP has set itself a big target ahead of next year's Lok Sabha elections: Attracting the 2 crore Millennial voters - children born in 2000, who will cast their first General Election votes in 2019. Banking on its strong social media skills, the party is building its "Millennium Voter Campaign" around an app. The programme will be launched on Ja...

The man behind a terror attack at singer Ariana Grande's concert in UK's Manchester late Monday died when he detonated his device, killing 22 others, including children and injuring 59 people, police said.

There are many documents that highlight the plight of the women and displaced children of Muzaffarnagar, and it is highly unlikely that both Rahul Gandhi and Akhilesh Yadav are not privy to them. So when both leaders who are looking at a possible assembly victory as their big ticket for 2019, look the other way while campaigning in Uttar Pradesh, h...

Donald Trump is at the centre of attack in a new advertisement by the rival Hillary Clinton campaign that invites adults to imagine what a child might be learning from the Republican presumptive nominee's provocative rhetoric.

Hitting back at BJP over its jibe of return of "jungle raj" in Bihar if the grand alliance is voted to power in the state, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today questioned whether there was 'Mangal raj' in Haryana where two children of a Dalit family were allegedly burnt to death.

On a day when the BJP government in Haryana announced a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation into the murder of two Dalit children, who were burnt alive in their house, the politics over the incident is just beginning to escalate a few thousand kilometres away in poll-bound Bihar.

Rehan and Miraya Vadra, accompanying mother Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as she campaigns in Uttar Pradesh, makes for more than just a rare photo-op. For, the older denizens of Amethi say it makes for a walk down memory lane.