Poll Plank

Turning the Congress narrative of kisan (farmers), pehelwan (wrestlers) and jawan (youth) on its head, former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has said that the opposition party can never do what the BJP has done for these groups.

The BJP will release its manifesto -Sankalp Patra - for the Lok Sabha polls on Sunday, with its planks of welfare and development besides a roadmap for 'Viksit Bharat' expected to figure prominently in its election agenda.

he issue has united the opposition, with the INDIA bloc holding a protest rally at the capital's Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, demanding a level playing field and the release of arrested leaders.

In an exclusive interview with NDTV Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat spoke about the BJP's campaign and responded to the ruling Congress' social welfare plank for Saturday's election.

Siddaramaiah's appointment as Karnataka Chief Minister is expected to give a boost to the Congress as it prepares to take the BJP on the other backward classes (OBC) plank, demanding an OBC census and also increasing the reservation ceiling to 75.

With the BJP focusing on the Bajrang Dal ban issue by turning it into a poll plank, the Congress is banking on its five "guarantees" for a victory in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, party sources said on Thursday.

The AAP on Sunday unveiled its election plank for urban local body polls in Uttar Pradesh, promising to halve house taxes and waive water taxes in municipal bodies it wins.

The resignation of two of its ministers, including Manish Sisodia, amid allegations of graft, has thrown a new challenge for the AAP with its rivals using the development to discredit the party's key poll plank of "Kejriwal model of governance".

The fledgling Aam Aadmi Party in Karnataka is aiming big in the upcoming state assembly election as it has decided to field candidates in all 224 constituencies with anti-corruption agenda as its main plank, a party leader said.

Stepping up his attack on the BJP, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut today said the Sena was the first party in the country to contest an election on "Hindutva" plank and that it was after its win that the BJP approached Bal Thackeray for an alliance.

The Bharatiya Janata Party will contest the elections in Manipur on the agenda of "peace, development and cohesive unity of communities", Chief Minister N Biren Singh told NDTV.

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday said it will fight the upcoming Goa assembly elections by projecting a chief ministerial candidate and providing good governance will be its key poll plank in the coastal state.

The Sabarimala women's entry issue, one of the major poll planks of the opposition UDF and the NDA against the ruling LDF during the campaign, took centre stage of debate even today, the day of assembly election in Kerala.

The BJP is confident that the alternate rule of UDF and LDF fronts in Kerala would be broken in the April 6 assembly polls as people are yearning for a change and would vote for the BJP-led NDA, whose poll plank is development and not "love jihad", a top party office bearer said.

Launching his campaign, BJP candidate in Palakkad "Metro Man" E Sreedharan on Monday said the party is fighting the elections on the plank of development and reasserted his claim that the NDA will formthe government in Kerala after the April 6 Assembly polls.

Turning the Congress narrative of kisan (farmers), pehelwan (wrestlers) and jawan (youth) on its head, former Haryana chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar has said that the opposition party can never do what the BJP has done for these groups.

The BJP will release its manifesto -Sankalp Patra - for the Lok Sabha polls on Sunday, with its planks of welfare and development besides a roadmap for 'Viksit Bharat' expected to figure prominently in its election agenda.

he issue has united the opposition, with the INDIA bloc holding a protest rally at the capital's Ramlila Maidan on Sunday, demanding a level playing field and the release of arrested leaders.

In an exclusive interview with NDTV Union Minister Gajendra Singh Shekhawat spoke about the BJP's campaign and responded to the ruling Congress' social welfare plank for Saturday's election.

Siddaramaiah's appointment as Karnataka Chief Minister is expected to give a boost to the Congress as it prepares to take the BJP on the other backward classes (OBC) plank, demanding an OBC census and also increasing the reservation ceiling to 75.

With the BJP focusing on the Bajrang Dal ban issue by turning it into a poll plank, the Congress is banking on its five "guarantees" for a victory in the upcoming Karnataka Assembly elections, party sources said on Thursday.

The AAP on Sunday unveiled its election plank for urban local body polls in Uttar Pradesh, promising to halve house taxes and waive water taxes in municipal bodies it wins.

The resignation of two of its ministers, including Manish Sisodia, amid allegations of graft, has thrown a new challenge for the AAP with its rivals using the development to discredit the party's key poll plank of "Kejriwal model of governance".

The fledgling Aam Aadmi Party in Karnataka is aiming big in the upcoming state assembly election as it has decided to field candidates in all 224 constituencies with anti-corruption agenda as its main plank, a party leader said.

Stepping up his attack on the BJP, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut today said the Sena was the first party in the country to contest an election on "Hindutva" plank and that it was after its win that the BJP approached Bal Thackeray for an alliance.

The Bharatiya Janata Party will contest the elections in Manipur on the agenda of "peace, development and cohesive unity of communities", Chief Minister N Biren Singh told NDTV.

The Trinamool Congress (TMC) on Tuesday said it will fight the upcoming Goa assembly elections by projecting a chief ministerial candidate and providing good governance will be its key poll plank in the coastal state.

The Sabarimala women's entry issue, one of the major poll planks of the opposition UDF and the NDA against the ruling LDF during the campaign, took centre stage of debate even today, the day of assembly election in Kerala.

The BJP is confident that the alternate rule of UDF and LDF fronts in Kerala would be broken in the April 6 assembly polls as people are yearning for a change and would vote for the BJP-led NDA, whose poll plank is development and not "love jihad", a top party office bearer said.

Launching his campaign, BJP candidate in Palakkad "Metro Man" E Sreedharan on Monday said the party is fighting the elections on the plank of development and reasserted his claim that the NDA will formthe government in Kerala after the April 6 Assembly polls.