Five States Facing Assembly Polls

The Bharatiya Janata Party will not project a chief ministerial candidate in any of the five state polls due later this year, particularly in the majority Hindi-speaking states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, senior BJP sources said.

After a lack of success in the recent state Assembly polls, the BJP in Kerala on Tuesday announced a major organisational revamp, changing five of its district presidents and inducting some fresh faces as office bearers.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday claimed that barring Assam, the BJP will face defeat in four other poll-bound states and the election trend in the five states will give a new direction to the country.

A turnout of 62.8 per cent was recorded till 3 pm when voting ended in the first round of polling in Jharkhand today, news agency Press Trust of India reported. The percentage is likely to rise as some people who are in the queue cast their vote. Hours after voting began in 13 constituencies of Jharkhand, a bridge in Bishnupur in Gumla district was...

The Election Commission has asked candidates in five states -- where assembly elections are being held -- to open current accounts so they won't have to face problems in withdrawing money for poll expenditure. Earlier, the Reserve Bank of India had refused to enhance the cash withdrawal limit for election candidates despite a request from the poll ...

Congress today released the first list of 61 candidates who will contest the upcoming Assembly polls in Punjab. State unit chief Amarinder Singh, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, CLP leader Charanjit Singh Channi and Sunil Jakhar all feature in the first list as was expected. The party has retained 31 sitting MLAs, while dropping only three, including Prenee...

Hitting out at BJP for claiming that the state has five chief ministers, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday asked the party to find at least one acceptable leader who could be projected as its chief ministerial face in the upcoming Assembly elections.

Illegal cash of over Rs 60 crore has been confiscated from the five states facing Assembly polls, with Tamil Nadu leading the list with seizures of Rs 24.55 crore.

He stoutly defended the Marxist stronghold in 2011 when the Trinamool Congress ousted the Left Front. But five years down the line, CPI(M) state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra is fighting a tough battle in Narayangarh as he tries to usher in change in West Bengal.

Illegal cash of over Rs 52 crore has been recovered from the five states facing Assembly polls with Tamil Nadu leading the list following total seizures of Rs 21.4 crore.

Five months after he took power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces the biggest test of his popularity as two Congress-ruled states, Maharashtra and Haryana, vote for new governments today.

21 percent of legislators in the five states heading for assembly polls in November and December have criminal backgrounds, data compiled by think tanks has revealed.

The Bharatiya Janata Party will not project a chief ministerial candidate in any of the five state polls due later this year, particularly in the majority Hindi-speaking states of Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, senior BJP sources said.

After a lack of success in the recent state Assembly polls, the BJP in Kerala on Tuesday announced a major organisational revamp, changing five of its district presidents and inducting some fresh faces as office bearers.

NCP chief Sharad Pawar on Sunday claimed that barring Assam, the BJP will face defeat in four other poll-bound states and the election trend in the five states will give a new direction to the country.

A turnout of 62.8 per cent was recorded till 3 pm when voting ended in the first round of polling in Jharkhand today, news agency Press Trust of India reported. The percentage is likely to rise as some people who are in the queue cast their vote. Hours after voting began in 13 constituencies of Jharkhand, a bridge in Bishnupur in Gumla district was...

The Election Commission has asked candidates in five states -- where assembly elections are being held -- to open current accounts so they won't have to face problems in withdrawing money for poll expenditure. Earlier, the Reserve Bank of India had refused to enhance the cash withdrawal limit for election candidates despite a request from the poll ...

Congress today released the first list of 61 candidates who will contest the upcoming Assembly polls in Punjab. State unit chief Amarinder Singh, Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, CLP leader Charanjit Singh Channi and Sunil Jakhar all feature in the first list as was expected. The party has retained 31 sitting MLAs, while dropping only three, including Prenee...

Hitting out at BJP for claiming that the state has five chief ministers, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav on Saturday asked the party to find at least one acceptable leader who could be projected as its chief ministerial face in the upcoming Assembly elections.

Illegal cash of over Rs 60 crore has been confiscated from the five states facing Assembly polls, with Tamil Nadu leading the list with seizures of Rs 24.55 crore.

He stoutly defended the Marxist stronghold in 2011 when the Trinamool Congress ousted the Left Front. But five years down the line, CPI(M) state secretary Surjya Kanta Mishra is fighting a tough battle in Narayangarh as he tries to usher in change in West Bengal.

Illegal cash of over Rs 52 crore has been recovered from the five states facing Assembly polls with Tamil Nadu leading the list following total seizures of Rs 21.4 crore.

Five months after he took power, Prime Minister Narendra Modi faces the biggest test of his popularity as two Congress-ruled states, Maharashtra and Haryana, vote for new governments today.

21 percent of legislators in the five states heading for assembly polls in November and December have criminal backgrounds, data compiled by think tanks has revealed.