Rajasthan By-polls

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the Congress candidate for by-polls to a Rajya Sabha seat from Rajasthan. He filed his nomination in state capital Jaipur on Tuesday.

By-elections to one Rajya Sabha seat each in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan will be held on August 26, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Thursday.

The ruling BJP and the Congress scored a victory each today in the last polls before the national election, due by May. The BJP won by-polls in Haryana's Jind, where the counting of votes was briefly stalled over protests and allegations of EVM or vote machine tampering. The Congress won the Ramgarh election in Rajasthan, adding one more seat to it...

After being crushed in the northeast, the Congress is celebrating a small but significant victory in Rajasthan. The party has won the by-polls held to several local bodies earlier this week.

A phone call, allegedly between a BJP lawmaker and a worker in Rajasthan discussing Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's role in the party's by-poll defeat, has gone viral. The leaked call signals back-to-back dissent after another leader recently wrote to BJP chief Amit Shah suggesting a change in the Rajasthan leadership to tackle growing resentment ...

After the drubbing in the by-elections to the two Lok Sabha seats of Ajmer and Alwar and the Assembly seat of Mandalgarh, a leader of the Bhartiya Janata Party in Rajasthan, Ashok Choudhury, has questioned the "style of functioning" of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and state party chief Ashok Parnami. Mr Choudhary, the head of the BJP's Kota distr...

The Congress today scored a perfect three on three in the Rajasthan bypolls, delivering a major blow to the ruling BJP ahead of several state elections and the national polls next year. The party won the Alwar and Ajmer parliamentary seats and the Mandalgarh assembly segment, all held by the BJP.

With just a week to go for the Ajmer Lok Sabha by-elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress have intensified their campaigning for the much-staked contest. The by-polls on January 29 in Ajmer and Alwar parliamentary and Mandalgarh assembly seats are likely to test the electoral readiness of the Vasundhra Raje-led BJP ...

Close on the heels of an improved performance in Gujarat, the Congress has won all the four zila parishad seats as well as 16 of the 27 panchayat samiti seats and six nagar palika seats in Rajasthan, for which by-elections were held recently.

The ruling BJP in Rajasthan won the Dholpur seat by a record margin on Thursday, in a boost to the party and Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia. The winning candidate, Shobha Rani Kushwaha, is the wife of BL Kushwaha, who held the seat until he was convicted of murder and disqualified.

The counting of votes for by-election in 11 constituencies in eight states began at 8 am this morning and most of the results for eight of the ten constituencies have been declared. The BJP has won five of the ten constituencies so far - with results for two yet to be declared. The Congress has retained both the seats it had in Karnataka, while the...

The BJP has won five of 10 assembly seats in eight states for which by-elections were held, retaining three and gaining two from other parties, including Delhi's Rajouri Garden, where last time's winner Aam Aadmi Party has lost its deposit ahead of key civic elections. The Congress has won three, two in Karnataka and one in Madhya Pradesh, all seat...

Ruling BJP and Congress retained their positions in the closely fought local bodies by-elections in Rajasthan garnering 19 and 14 seats out of 37 respectively that went to polls on Tuesday.

Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti today said the reverses suffered by the party in assembly by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat should not be linked with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party is the big winner of today's round of by-elections, winning eight of 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh, ten of which were previously held by the BJP and one by its ally the Apna Dal. A triumphant UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party called it a rejection of the people of "communal politics." Critic...

Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the Congress candidate for by-polls to a Rajya Sabha seat from Rajasthan. He filed his nomination in state capital Jaipur on Tuesday.

By-elections to one Rajya Sabha seat each in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan will be held on August 26, the Election Commission of India (ECI) said on Thursday.

The ruling BJP and the Congress scored a victory each today in the last polls before the national election, due by May. The BJP won by-polls in Haryana's Jind, where the counting of votes was briefly stalled over protests and allegations of EVM or vote machine tampering. The Congress won the Ramgarh election in Rajasthan, adding one more seat to it...

After being crushed in the northeast, the Congress is celebrating a small but significant victory in Rajasthan. The party has won the by-polls held to several local bodies earlier this week.

A phone call, allegedly between a BJP lawmaker and a worker in Rajasthan discussing Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje's role in the party's by-poll defeat, has gone viral. The leaked call signals back-to-back dissent after another leader recently wrote to BJP chief Amit Shah suggesting a change in the Rajasthan leadership to tackle growing resentment ...

After the drubbing in the by-elections to the two Lok Sabha seats of Ajmer and Alwar and the Assembly seat of Mandalgarh, a leader of the Bhartiya Janata Party in Rajasthan, Ashok Choudhury, has questioned the "style of functioning" of Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and state party chief Ashok Parnami. Mr Choudhary, the head of the BJP's Kota distr...

The Congress today scored a perfect three on three in the Rajasthan bypolls, delivering a major blow to the ruling BJP ahead of several state elections and the national polls next year. The party won the Alwar and Ajmer parliamentary seats and the Mandalgarh assembly segment, all held by the BJP.

With just a week to go for the Ajmer Lok Sabha by-elections, the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party and the opposition Congress have intensified their campaigning for the much-staked contest. The by-polls on January 29 in Ajmer and Alwar parliamentary and Mandalgarh assembly seats are likely to test the electoral readiness of the Vasundhra Raje-led BJP ...

Close on the heels of an improved performance in Gujarat, the Congress has won all the four zila parishad seats as well as 16 of the 27 panchayat samiti seats and six nagar palika seats in Rajasthan, for which by-elections were held recently.

The ruling BJP in Rajasthan won the Dholpur seat by a record margin on Thursday, in a boost to the party and Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje Scindia. The winning candidate, Shobha Rani Kushwaha, is the wife of BL Kushwaha, who held the seat until he was convicted of murder and disqualified.

The counting of votes for by-election in 11 constituencies in eight states began at 8 am this morning and most of the results for eight of the ten constituencies have been declared. The BJP has won five of the ten constituencies so far - with results for two yet to be declared. The Congress has retained both the seats it had in Karnataka, while the...

The BJP has won five of 10 assembly seats in eight states for which by-elections were held, retaining three and gaining two from other parties, including Delhi's Rajouri Garden, where last time's winner Aam Aadmi Party has lost its deposit ahead of key civic elections. The Congress has won three, two in Karnataka and one in Madhya Pradesh, all seat...

Ruling BJP and Congress retained their positions in the closely fought local bodies by-elections in Rajasthan garnering 19 and 14 seats out of 37 respectively that went to polls on Tuesday.

Senior BJP leader Uma Bharti today said the reverses suffered by the party in assembly by-polls in Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat should not be linked with Prime Minister Narendra Modi's popularity.

Mulayam Singh Yadav's Samajwadi Party is the big winner of today's round of by-elections, winning eight of 11 seats in Uttar Pradesh, ten of which were previously held by the BJP and one by its ally the Apna Dal. A triumphant UP chief minister Akhilesh Yadav of the Samajwadi Party called it a rejection of the people of "communal politics." Critic...