06:14 PM | Total 74.6 per cent of voting recorded in Madhya Pradesh, told Election Commission. 05:52 PM | 66 per cent, 64 per cent and 68 per cent polling was reported from the Maoist affected constituencies including Baihar, Lanjhi and Paraswada respectively. 05:20 PM | The elections in Madhya[Read More…]
Tag: Madhya Pradesh
Ten most interesting contests in the electoral battle of Madhya Pradesh
BIG FIGHTS: All eyes on these constituencies in Madhya Pradesh Assembly polls 2018.
Madhya Pradesh: Will state assembly see its first transgender MLA from Chambal?
Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, which has reached its peak and voting is scheduled for November 28 is likely to witness some interesting developments from Chambal division. For the 230 members’ state assembly, total 2,932 candidates are contesting and 1,102 are independent contestants. However, Ambah & Porsa (SC) constituency of Morena[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: Campaigning concludes, BJP & Congress leaves no stone unturned for battle
Ahead of Madhya Pradesh polls, campaigning for the assembly elections concluded on Monday. Central state which goes to poll in the single phase, voting for 230 seats will be held on November 28 and the results will be declared on December 11. Major contenders including Congress and BJP are going alone[Read More…]
Demonising Digvijaya: How vilifying, constantly targeting Diggy helps BJP in Madhya Pradesh
While Shivraj appears humble and will promise the moon despite knowing practical difficulties, Diggy was quite blunt. Ironically, people want their leaders to be dream merchants, don’t want them to be harsh.
Madhya Pradesh: Computer Baba along with several religious figures to support Congress
Ahead of Madhya Pradesh elections, a group of religious figures including thousands of saints from across the state led by Computer Baba declared support to the Congress in Jabalpur on Friday. Swami Namdev Tyagi, famously known as Computer Baba, who had earlier declared to uproot the incumbent BJP government from[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: Some unknown facts about Indore
Indore, the economic capital of Madhya Pradesh is considered as the backbone of state’s economy, however, there is hidden fact about the city that, Indore loves Cricket and apart from that, biggest evidence of the cricket’s enthusiasm is the 35 ft statue of the 2011 World Cup trophy. Following the[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: How Samajwadi Party stacking up crisis for major contenders?
Over the last two assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh, Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party has expanded its party base, including Mahakaushal, Baghelkhand and Bundelkhand regions have become a party stronghold. Incumbent BJP is trying hard to retain its fort in the central state, while Congress is leaving no stone unturned[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: After Satyavrat Chaturvedi, his son Nitin Chaturvedi expelled from Congress
Earlier Congress has expelled senior leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi for six years after he campaigned for his son Nitin Chaturvedi, a Samajwadi party candidate from Rajnagar in Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh. On Thursday morning, Congress expelled 14 rebel leaders including Nitin Chaturvedi over involvement in anti-party activities. Apart from Satyavrat[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: 4 school kids among 5 killed in accident in Satna
Satna: Four children were among five persons killed when a bus collided with a school van in Madhya Pradesh’s Satna district on Thursday morning, police said. Dozens of other people on board the van were in a state of panic, Satna police chief Santosh Gaur said, confirming that the van[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: 9 killed in a road accident in Sagar
At least nine people were killed and seven others got injured after a truck rammed in the to car in Madhya Pradesh’s Malthon of Sagar district. 6 people died on the spot when the accident happened around 11:30 AM on Wednesday morning. Total 16 people were sitting in the car[Read More…]
Poll season: Candidates cleaning utensils, wiping floors with ‘gobar’ in Madhya Pradesh
Ahead of Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, recently on Sunday Rajesh Sonkar, BJP candidate from Sanwer assembly in Indore district of Madhya Pradesh was campaigning in the constituency, when Sonkar saw a woman washing utensils outside her house. Further, Sonkar ran to help her and woman started saying, “Bhaiyaji, bartan mat[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: Hindu Sena hurls ink at Kanhaiya Kumar and Jignesh Mewani in Gwalior
During an event in Gwalior on Monday afternoon, ink was hurled at Kanhaiya Kumar and Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mewani. As per the reports, Hindu Sena workers threw the ink on these leaders during a symposium on ‘save democracy-save sovereignty-save constitution’ organised by Samvidhan Bachao Samiti, which is headed by Devashish Jarariya.[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: Congress likely to expel senior leader Satyavrat Chaturvedi
Nitin Chaturvedi, son of senior Congress leader and former Member of Parliament (MP) Satyavrat Chaturvedi, is contesting from Rajnagar in Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh under the banner of Samajwadi Party (SP). Following which, Satyavrat has announced to campaign for Akhilesh Yadav led Samajwadi Party in the region. According to sources, Congress[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh Polls: How crashing prices of Garlic may impact the poll outcome?
Ahead of Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, farmers of Malwa region, who are struggling through various issues, have become a center of debate ahead of the electoral battle of the state. Farmers’ distress, debt relief and uncertainty over Bhavantar Bhugtan Yojana are some of the issues of agrarian community in Madhya[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: BJP MP Faggan Singh Kulaste gets taste of women’s anguish at Mandla
Ahead of Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, Bhartiya Janta Party’s (BJP) Member of Parliament from Mandla, Faggan Singh Kulaste faced the anguish of women residents of his own constituency on Saturday. During campaigning for BJP’s candidate Dev Singh Shyaam, several women residents of Deelwada village in Mandla district gathered against Kulaste over[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: Senior Congress leader Indrajit Patel passes away
Former State minister and Senior Congress leader Indrajit Patel, who passed away on Sunday in Bhopal, has left a void in Madhya Pradesh, carrying as he did an influential voice of the Sidhi district in Bhopal’s power circles and maintained cordial relations among different political spectrum of Madhya Pradesh. Indrajit[Read More…]
Satta Bazar bets on Congress in Madhya Pradesh
Ahead of Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, Satta (speculation) market has also started predicting the fate of the upcoming electoral battle. The punters (Satoriyas) are backing Congress, media reports claimed. Apart from a few occasions, the punters, who deposited their money following ground surveys, have been proved right. The punters also[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: Arun Yadav, dark horse among Congress CM probables
Arun Subhashchandra Yadav, who has taken the biggest political mission of his life and has created a fear of defeat among the Saffron side, is gaining limelight in political circles of Madhya Pradesh for various reasons. Congress party on November 8 decided to field former Madhya Pradesh Congress Chief Arun[Read More…]
Six reasons why ‘Shivraj factor’ may not be enough for BJP’s fourth straight victory in Madhya Pradesh
BHOPAL: BJP has won three consecutive assembly elections in Madhya Pradesh and it now hopes that after this long period of 15 years, people would once again repose their faith in the party. Many within the BJP reassure themselves by saying that the party’s vote share in MP was far[Read More…]
BJP suspends 53 rebel leaders in Madhya Pradesh
Ahead of Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) on Thursday suspended 53 leaders, over involvement in anti-party activities. During a meeting on Wednesday night, State BJP Chief Rakesh Singh decided to convey a hard message to its state leaders over indulging against Saffron party in the state, sources[Read More…]
Madhya Pradesh: Acid attack on teenage girl, later raped and thrown on street
In a shocking incident, two men, identified as Lokesh Prajapat and Govinda, tried to misbehave with a 17 year old girl. When the latter tried to oppose and raise her voice to save herself, the duo attacked the teenage girl with acid, raped her, and later threw her on the[Read More…]
MP Election: Will BJP continue its winning streak in Indore?
Indore: Indian National Congress president Rahul Gandhi, Bhartiya Janata Party Chief Amit Shah, and State Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chauhan launched their election campaign with a roadshow. Malwa-Nimar region is an important area and comprises of 66 assembly seats, which both the parties are well aware of it. After the[Read More…]
3 large Hindi-speaking states have high fertility rates: UNFPA
There is a stark contrast between the fertility rates of the three largest Hindi-speaking states and six non-Hindi-speaking states even as India was nearing the population replacement level of fertility, a UN report shows. “Although average total fertility (rate) for the whole country is 2.3 births per woman, it is[Read More…]
Twitter records 1.2 mn tweets related to Assembly elections
New Delhi: As the nation gears up for the Assembly polls in Chattisgarh, Mizoram, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Telangana, conversations and debates on Twitter in the past week alone recorded 1.2 million tweets related to #AssemblyElections2018, the microblogging site said. Among the initiatives that Twitter launched for the state elections[Read More…]