Leh Polls

What should have been a direct contest between the BJP and the Congress in the Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency is now a three-corner fight with an alliance of local groups fielding an Independent to challenge the national parties.

Retaining power, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won the election to the 26-member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC)-Leh by bagging 15 seats, while the Congress got nine seats.

All political parties, including the BJP, have decided to the boycott the upcoming Ladakh Area Hill Development Council (LAHDC) elections till the region is granted a constitutional guarantee to protect the land and job rights of its people.

Army officers posted in Jammu and Kashmir's Leh province have been accused of violating electoral norms by asking soldiers to specify their voting preferences by phone and casting votes on their behalf instead of adhering to the standard procedure of providing ballot papers. A complaint in this regard was cited in a notice issued by Leh Election Of...

Lok Sabha Election Phase 5 Voting: As many as 49 polling booths in Leh district will have all women staff as all arrangements have been put in place to ensure free and fair polling in the Ladakh parliamentary constituency on Monday, officials said.

A journalist body in Ladakh has accused the BJP of "bribing reporters for favourable coverage" to influence the national elections in the constituency which votes on Monday in the fifth phase. An inquiry has been ordered by the district election officer.

The Congress has won all the wards in Leh, poll officials said, as counting of votes for the recently-held municipal polls continued in Jammu and Kashmir. Counting of votes started at 8 am, and all the results will be declared later in the day, election officials said.

A jubilant BJP today asserted that the party has "written a new chapter" in Ladakh after sweeping the 26-member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh (LAHDC) elections today.

Over 65 per cent electorate have exercised their franchise in the polling for the fifth Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) in Leh to elect 26 new councillors.

What should have been a direct contest between the BJP and the Congress in the Ladakh Lok Sabha constituency is now a three-corner fight with an alliance of local groups fielding an Independent to challenge the national parties.

Retaining power, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has won the election to the 26-member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC)-Leh by bagging 15 seats, while the Congress got nine seats.

All political parties, including the BJP, have decided to the boycott the upcoming Ladakh Area Hill Development Council (LAHDC) elections till the region is granted a constitutional guarantee to protect the land and job rights of its people.

Army officers posted in Jammu and Kashmir's Leh province have been accused of violating electoral norms by asking soldiers to specify their voting preferences by phone and casting votes on their behalf instead of adhering to the standard procedure of providing ballot papers. A complaint in this regard was cited in a notice issued by Leh Election Of...

Lok Sabha Election Phase 5 Voting: As many as 49 polling booths in Leh district will have all women staff as all arrangements have been put in place to ensure free and fair polling in the Ladakh parliamentary constituency on Monday, officials said.

A journalist body in Ladakh has accused the BJP of "bribing reporters for favourable coverage" to influence the national elections in the constituency which votes on Monday in the fifth phase. An inquiry has been ordered by the district election officer.

The Congress has won all the wards in Leh, poll officials said, as counting of votes for the recently-held municipal polls continued in Jammu and Kashmir. Counting of votes started at 8 am, and all the results will be declared later in the day, election officials said.

A jubilant BJP today asserted that the party has "written a new chapter" in Ladakh after sweeping the 26-member Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council, Leh (LAHDC) elections today.

Over 65 per cent electorate have exercised their franchise in the polling for the fifth Ladakh Autonomous Hill Development Council (LAHDC) in Leh to elect 26 new councillors.