Zilla Panchayat Elections

A newly elected panchayat member at a village in Madhya Pradesh was hit with sticks and kicked and punched by a group of men on Friday.

The Karnataka State Election Commission on Tuesday told the High Court that the State government had taken away its powers making it unable to hold elections to the Zilla Panchayat (ZP) and Taluk Panchayats (TP) as mandated by the Supreme Court.

The ruling BJD won 268 Zilla Parishad seats of the 300 declared so far with the counting for the panchayat polls continuing for the second day on Sunday, officials said.

The election for 88 seats of three municipalities in Gujarat's Vadodara district, along with 34 Zilla panchayat seats and 168 taluka panchayat seats will be held on February 28.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Monday hailed his party's maiden win in Goa Zilla Panchayat elections, which marked the first electoral history of the party in the coastal state.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa on Monday made big gains in the Zilla Panchayat elections, winning 32 out of 49 seats on offer, while the opposition Congress performed poorly, bagging just four.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has won unopposed 96 per cent of the Gram Panchayat and Panchayat Samiti seats and all the 18 Zilla Parishad seats in Tripura, a State Election Commission official said.

A record 55 per cent voting, the highest in 25 years, was recorded yesterday as Mumbai voted to decide who will control the country's richest civic body -- the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC. The contest was seen as one mainly between the Shiv Sena and the BJP. The turn-out for 11 Zilla Parishads and 118 Panchayat Samiti polls in the sta...

Nomination paper of jailed tribal leader and president of Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) Nachika Linga for the Narayanpatna Zilla Parishad seat in the upcoming panchayat elections in Odisha was rejected during scrutiny on Wednesday.

Ruling Congress today edged ahead of BJP in the in Taluk and Zilla Panchayat elections in Karnataka, where polls were held in two phases.

Despite an array of allegations of corruption against some of its senior-most members including the chief minister, the BJP has delivered strong results in the zilla panchayat elections in Karnataka.The BJP won 12 of the 30 zilla panchayats while the Congress and JD(S) won four each.    The Chief Minister said the resulted should sil...

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka on Tuesday took a major lead in the Zilla and Taluk elections. The BJP bagged 12 of the 30 Zilla Panchayats while the opposition Congress and JD(S) captured four each. The verdict for the remaining 10 such bodies was fractured."The results of Zilla and Taluk Panchayat elections have vindicated pe...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken the lead in elections to the zilla and taluk panchayats in Karnataka. Chief Minister Yeddyurappa, who has been facing serious corruption allegations has managed to put his party in the lead. The BJP has won the majority of the seats in the Shimoga Zila panchayat in the CM's constituency. The ...

A newly elected panchayat member at a village in Madhya Pradesh was hit with sticks and kicked and punched by a group of men on Friday.

The Karnataka State Election Commission on Tuesday told the High Court that the State government had taken away its powers making it unable to hold elections to the Zilla Panchayat (ZP) and Taluk Panchayats (TP) as mandated by the Supreme Court.

The ruling BJD won 268 Zilla Parishad seats of the 300 declared so far with the counting for the panchayat polls continuing for the second day on Sunday, officials said.

The election for 88 seats of three municipalities in Gujarat's Vadodara district, along with 34 Zilla panchayat seats and 168 taluka panchayat seats will be held on February 28.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal on Monday hailed his party's maiden win in Goa Zilla Panchayat elections, which marked the first electoral history of the party in the coastal state.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Goa on Monday made big gains in the Zilla Panchayat elections, winning 32 out of 49 seats on offer, while the opposition Congress performed poorly, bagging just four.

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has won unopposed 96 per cent of the Gram Panchayat and Panchayat Samiti seats and all the 18 Zilla Parishad seats in Tripura, a State Election Commission official said.

A record 55 per cent voting, the highest in 25 years, was recorded yesterday as Mumbai voted to decide who will control the country's richest civic body -- the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation or BMC. The contest was seen as one mainly between the Shiv Sena and the BJP. The turn-out for 11 Zilla Parishads and 118 Panchayat Samiti polls in the sta...

Nomination paper of jailed tribal leader and president of Chasi Muliya Adivasi Sangh (CMAS) Nachika Linga for the Narayanpatna Zilla Parishad seat in the upcoming panchayat elections in Odisha was rejected during scrutiny on Wednesday.

Ruling Congress today edged ahead of BJP in the in Taluk and Zilla Panchayat elections in Karnataka, where polls were held in two phases.

Despite an array of allegations of corruption against some of its senior-most members including the chief minister, the BJP has delivered strong results in the zilla panchayat elections in Karnataka.The BJP won 12 of the 30 zilla panchayats while the Congress and JD(S) won four each.    The Chief Minister said the resulted should sil...

The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Karnataka on Tuesday took a major lead in the Zilla and Taluk elections. The BJP bagged 12 of the 30 Zilla Panchayats while the opposition Congress and JD(S) captured four each. The verdict for the remaining 10 such bodies was fractured."The results of Zilla and Taluk Panchayat elections have vindicated pe...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has taken the lead in elections to the zilla and taluk panchayats in Karnataka. Chief Minister Yeddyurappa, who has been facing serious corruption allegations has managed to put his party in the lead. The BJP has won the majority of the seats in the Shimoga Zila panchayat in the CM's constituency. The ...