Lok Sabha Polling for the third phase began on Tuesday April 23 in 116 seats, including all constituencies in Gujarat and Kerala, with BJP president Amit Shah, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and several Union Ministers among prominent candidates in the fray. Besides all seats in Gujarat (26) and Kerala (20), voting will[Read More…]
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Lok Sabha Polls 2019: Aakash Prasad Singh, youngest candidate to contest from Bihar
He is contesting against Union minister Radha Mohan Singh from Purvi Champaran parliamentary constituency on an RLSP ticket
Lok Sabha polls: Congress declares 20 more candidates
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday night declared 20 more Lok Sabha candidates retaining some of its sitting MPs in Punjab including Sunil Jakhar from Gurdaspur, Gurjit Singh Aujla from Amritsar, Ravneet Singh Bittu from Ludhiana and Santokh Singh Chaudhary from Jalandhar. The party has also given tickets to former[Read More…]
No Ballot Paper: EC to use EVMs in Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency
The Election Commission on Sunday put the speculation on rest that the ballot papers may be used, and announced that the polling in Telangana’s Nizamabad Lok Sabha constituency, where 185 candidates are in fray, will be conducted with EVMs only. The Commission issued instructions to the Chief Electoral Officer of Telangana to[Read More…]
This man is all set to contest election for the 88th time
He has been contesting elections including Lok Sabha and state assembly but never got the mandate
Akhilesh Yadav to contest from Azamgarh for LS polls
Lucknow: The Samajwadi Party (SP) on Sunday announced that its chief Akhilesh Yadav will contest the coming Lok Sabha polls from the Azamgarh parliamentary constituency in Uttar Pradesh. In the 2014 elections, SP patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav had won the Mainpuri and Azamgarh parliamentary constituencies. Azamgarh is considered a strong[Read More…]
Lok Sabha Polls 2019: AIADMK releases list of constituencies
Chennai: The ruling AIADMK on Sunday released the list of Lok Sabha constituencies that the party and its allies would contest from in the upcoming general elections. In a statement here, the AIADMK said it will contest from 20 seats: Salem, Namakkal, Krishnagiri, Erode, Karur, Tiruppur, Pollachi, Arani, Thiruvannamalai, Chidambaram,[Read More…]
Lok Sabha Polls 2019: Time for son Nakul Nath to take over Chhindwara says Kamal Nath
Chhindwara: Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath on Saturday said he wanted to hand over the responsibility of Chhindwara, which he has been serving for decades, to his son Nakul Nath. Sharing the dais with his son, Nath told a gathering here: “You people will support me and Congress in[Read More…]
600 all-women polling booths in Karnataka for LS polls
Bengaluru: A total of 600 polling booths of the 58,186 voting stations to be set up for the Lok Sabha elections in Karnataka on April 18 and 23 will be managed by women personnel, an election official said on Monday. “As part of ensuring gender equality and constructive participation of[Read More…]
BJP to lose 44 seats Lok Sabha in 3 states, according to current trends
New Delhi: After the assembly elections of five states, Bhartiya Janata Party has failed miserably in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, and Madhya Pradesh which were under its control over a decade. According to current trends, it is most likely that BJP won’t be able to recreate Modi magic which it did in[Read More…]
Congress can never be nucleus of coalition: Jaitley
New Delhi: Terming the opposition’s efforts to forge a grand alliance ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls as a failure, Union Minister Arun Jaitley on Friday slammed the Congress, saying it can only be the “tail” of any alliance, but never the “nucleus”. “India is not going to experiment[Read More…]
Lok Sabha Polls 2019: Congress, NCP ready to contest 24 LS sests each
Lok Sabha Elections 2019: Congress and Nationalist Congress Party have reached an agreement with Congress agreeing on NCP’s demand for an equal number of Lok Sabha seats in Maharashtra. Now both the parties will contest equally on 24 seats each in the coming general elections unlike previous years when Congress contested[Read More…]
Internal rift intensifies as Congress looks for revival in Maharashtra
The Congress party was in power in Maharashtra with Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) for 15 years in a row till 2014. The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) took over the power in 2014 when Devendra Fadnavis became first BJP chief minister of the state. The Congress party is trying to woo[Read More…]