Rajasthan Civic Polls

Election for the members of zila parishads and panchayat samitis of Alwar and Dholpur districts will be held in three phases on October 20, 23 and 26, Rajasthan Election Commission said on Monday.

The Congress has formed its board in 48 urban local bodies in Rajasthan while the BJP got 37 among the 90 that went to the polls for which results were declared on Sunday.

The prestige of both the Congress and BJP is at stake as six municipal corporations in the three Rajasthan cities that will go to polls today.

The State Election Commission of Rajasthan on Saturday announced the election for the six municipal corporations in Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota.

The Rajasthan Assembly on Monday passed two bills which seek to end the minimum education criterion for panchayat and civic polls candidates.

The Rajasthan cabinet on Thursday approved two amendments bills to do away with the condition of minimum educational qualification for contesting local body elections

As Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus nears its release, obstacles and protests refuse to die down. At its production stage, sets and elaborate art installations were vandalized by the Karni Sena, a Rajput group. The Rajasthan royalty have also written to the Prime Minister on grounds that the movie is layered with factual inaccuracies and that th...

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...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday urged the State Election Commission (SEC) not to use Generation 1 EVMs brought in from Rajasthan during the upcoming civic polls, claiming they were all "clearly" tampered with.

A new law in Haryana and Rajasthan mandating that only those having minimum educational qualifications can contest panchayat elections, has found little support from the Congress which dubbed the move as one "hurting constitutional rights".

It's a narrower victory than last time, but Bengaluru has handed control of its municipality back to the BJP, which is celebrating its third big win after sweeping civic polls in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh earlier this month.

BJP today took control of 87 municipal bodies, helped by Independents in 21 of them, while Congress got 37 out of a total of 129 in Rajasthan civic polls.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah today congratulated party workers and leaders on the BJP's commendable performance in the Rajasthan civic polls.

After Madhya Pradesh, the BJP has posted another big win in a high-stakes municipal election in Rajasthan. But there are some setbacks for Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.

The results of the 129 civic bodies' polls, to be announced today, will be a political test for the Vasundhara Raje government which has been embroiled in Lalit Modi controversy over the past few months.

Election for the members of zila parishads and panchayat samitis of Alwar and Dholpur districts will be held in three phases on October 20, 23 and 26, Rajasthan Election Commission said on Monday.

The Congress has formed its board in 48 urban local bodies in Rajasthan while the BJP got 37 among the 90 that went to the polls for which results were declared on Sunday.

The prestige of both the Congress and BJP is at stake as six municipal corporations in the three Rajasthan cities that will go to polls today.

The State Election Commission of Rajasthan on Saturday announced the election for the six municipal corporations in Jaipur, Jodhpur and Kota.

The Rajasthan Assembly on Monday passed two bills which seek to end the minimum education criterion for panchayat and civic polls candidates.

The Rajasthan cabinet on Thursday approved two amendments bills to do away with the condition of minimum educational qualification for contesting local body elections

As Sanjay Leela Bhansali's magnum opus nears its release, obstacles and protests refuse to die down. At its production stage, sets and elaborate art installations were vandalized by the Karni Sena, a Rajput group. The Rajasthan royalty have also written to the Prime Minister on grounds that the movie is layered with factual inaccuracies and that th...

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...

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Wednesday urged the State Election Commission (SEC) not to use Generation 1 EVMs brought in from Rajasthan during the upcoming civic polls, claiming they were all "clearly" tampered with.

A new law in Haryana and Rajasthan mandating that only those having minimum educational qualifications can contest panchayat elections, has found little support from the Congress which dubbed the move as one "hurting constitutional rights".

It's a narrower victory than last time, but Bengaluru has handed control of its municipality back to the BJP, which is celebrating its third big win after sweeping civic polls in Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh earlier this month.

BJP today took control of 87 municipal bodies, helped by Independents in 21 of them, while Congress got 37 out of a total of 129 in Rajasthan civic polls.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and BJP President Amit Shah today congratulated party workers and leaders on the BJP's commendable performance in the Rajasthan civic polls.

After Madhya Pradesh, the BJP has posted another big win in a high-stakes municipal election in Rajasthan. But there are some setbacks for Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje.

The results of the 129 civic bodies' polls, to be announced today, will be a political test for the Vasundhara Raje government which has been embroiled in Lalit Modi controversy over the past few months.