Mp Local Polls

A district court in Indore has acquitted local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Shankar Lalwani in a case of alleged violation of the model code of conduct during the Lok Sabha elections of 2019, granting him "the benefit of doubt".

Mr Chouhan's move came a day after the Supreme Court directed the State Election Commission (SEC) to notify the programme for local body elections in Madhya Pradesh within two weeks.

BJP MP Locket Chatterjee's car - and those belonging to the press - were allegedly attacked by a mob of angry locals at polling booth No 66 in Bengal's Hooghly district on Saturday morning, where voting for the fourth phase began at 7 am

A Trinamool Congress delegation, led by MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, has urged the Election Commission to bring back the rule which enjoined upon political parties to appoint only people, registered as voters in an assembly segment where an election booth was located, as polling agents for that booth.

The Trinamool Congress jeered at the BJP on Sunday for drafting MPs, movie stars and even a union minister as candidates for the West Bengal elections as well as taking multiple rounds to announce its list of contenders. The BJP, however, brushed off the charge that the party lacked strong local candidates and said that the people of Bengal were "t...

As suspense continued over the BJP's nominee from Indore constituency, Lok Sabha Speaker and local MP Sumitra Mahajan Tuesday said she never sought poll ticket from the party in the last three decades.

Local BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj has said that the upcoming Lok Sabha polls will be fought in the name of the country and there will be no elections after that.

Defence Minister Arun Jaitley hit out at those who have criticised an Army Major for tying a man to the bonnet of his jeep last month as he evacuated election officials from a polling booth attacked by hundreds of stone-throwing protesters in Jammu and Kashmir capital Srinagar.

A red carpet rolled out in a polling booth in Patiala where Capitan Amarinder Singh and his family will cast their vote triggered accusations from rival parties that the special treatment was aimed at the Congress' chief ministerial candidate, a local royal. Patiala is one of the two assembly seats from where Amarinder Singh is contesting.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today accused Congress of ruining the state's image by mounting a campaign of false allegations to secure its selfish interests.

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan visited Leicester in the UK to support the election campaign of Indian-origin Member of Parliament (MP) Keith Vaz who was officially nominated as the local Labour Party candidate for the upcoming polls.

As Mumbai gears up to vote for its local municipal elections, the Congress has some house-keeping it needs to urgently attend to. Priya Dutt, the popular MP and actor Sanjay Dutt's sister, is upset about not being consulted about the party's candidates. Ms Dutt denies that she has threatened to quit.

A district court in Indore has acquitted local Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Shankar Lalwani in a case of alleged violation of the model code of conduct during the Lok Sabha elections of 2019, granting him "the benefit of doubt".

Mr Chouhan's move came a day after the Supreme Court directed the State Election Commission (SEC) to notify the programme for local body elections in Madhya Pradesh within two weeks.

BJP MP Locket Chatterjee's car - and those belonging to the press - were allegedly attacked by a mob of angry locals at polling booth No 66 in Bengal's Hooghly district on Saturday morning, where voting for the fourth phase began at 7 am

A Trinamool Congress delegation, led by MP Sudip Bandyopadhyay, has urged the Election Commission to bring back the rule which enjoined upon political parties to appoint only people, registered as voters in an assembly segment where an election booth was located, as polling agents for that booth.

The Trinamool Congress jeered at the BJP on Sunday for drafting MPs, movie stars and even a union minister as candidates for the West Bengal elections as well as taking multiple rounds to announce its list of contenders. The BJP, however, brushed off the charge that the party lacked strong local candidates and said that the people of Bengal were "t...

As suspense continued over the BJP's nominee from Indore constituency, Lok Sabha Speaker and local MP Sumitra Mahajan Tuesday said she never sought poll ticket from the party in the last three decades.

Local BJP MP Sakshi Maharaj has said that the upcoming Lok Sabha polls will be fought in the name of the country and there will be no elections after that.

Defence Minister Arun Jaitley hit out at those who have criticised an Army Major for tying a man to the bonnet of his jeep last month as he evacuated election officials from a polling booth attacked by hundreds of stone-throwing protesters in Jammu and Kashmir capital Srinagar.

A red carpet rolled out in a polling booth in Patiala where Capitan Amarinder Singh and his family will cast their vote triggered accusations from rival parties that the special treatment was aimed at the Congress' chief ministerial candidate, a local royal. Patiala is one of the two assembly seats from where Amarinder Singh is contesting.

Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan today accused Congress of ruining the state's image by mounting a campaign of false allegations to secure its selfish interests.

Bollywood actor Abhishek Bachchan visited Leicester in the UK to support the election campaign of Indian-origin Member of Parliament (MP) Keith Vaz who was officially nominated as the local Labour Party candidate for the upcoming polls.

As Mumbai gears up to vote for its local municipal elections, the Congress has some house-keeping it needs to urgently attend to. Priya Dutt, the popular MP and actor Sanjay Dutt's sister, is upset about not being consulted about the party's candidates. Ms Dutt denies that she has threatened to quit.