assembly elections

Kanpur, April 8 Samajwadi Party President Akhilesh Yadav criticized the BJP-led government in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, saying that "Kanpur has been turned into Badnaampur" under the party's rule.Akhilesh Yadav visited the city to pay tribute to his security guard and meet the latter's...

Palakkad (Kerala), April 8 The Congress alleged that Sobha Surendran, the BJP candidate for the Palakkad constituency in Kerala, was "caught red-handed distributing" cash to voters ahead of the April 9 elections to the state Assembly.Surendran denied the allegations, calling them "fabricated"...

Deoghar, April 8 Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma offered prayers at the Baba Baidyanath Temple in Jharkhand's Deoghar district on Wednesday, a day before the high-stakes elections in his state.Accompanied by BJP MP Nishikant Dubey, Sarma arrived under tight security and proceeded...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 8 Kerala Governor Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar appealed to the people of the state to exercise their right to vote freely and without fear in the upcoming assembly elections.In a message issued on the eve of the polls, the governor stated that voting is not only a...

Palakkad, April 8 – NDA candidate Sobha Surendran has strongly denied allegations that a BJP worker distributed money to a voter in Palakkad, Kerala, calling the charge a "scripted attempt" to damage her reputation during the final phase of campaigning for the Assembly elections.The BJP leader...

Guwahati/Thiruvananthapuram, April 8 – With the highly anticipated Assembly elections in Assam and Kerala just a day away, election officials and security personnel intensified their efforts on Wednesday to ensure free and fair voting.Authorities in both states have completed most of the...

Chennai, April 8 – Edappadi K Palaniswami launched a strong attack on the ruling Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) government on Wednesday, calling it a "failure model" and urging voters to remove it from power in the upcoming Assembly elections.Addressing a public meeting in Velachery, the...

Kolkata, April 8 – Central security has been increased for Congress candidate Adhir Chowdhury from the Baharampur constituency ahead of the Assembly elections, according to a government insider on Wednesday.Additional security personnel, including women, will be deployed, and five additional...

New Delhi, April 8 The BJP on Wednesday announced Rakesh Singh as its candidate for the Kolkata Port constituency in the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections.With this, the party has announced the names of 293 candidates out of the 294 seats in the state.West Bengal will go to the polls...

Chennai, April 8 Tamil Nadu has seen a significant increase in first-time voters ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections, with the number of electors in the 18-19 age group increasing by nearly 33.6 per cent, according to data released by the Chief Electoral Officer’s office on Wednesday.The...

Kolkata, April 7 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced on Tuesday that from February 26 to April 6, illegal and unauthorized items worth approximately ₹327.44 crore have been seized in West Bengal, which is holding crucial two-phase Assembly elections later this month.The office...

Kolkata, April 7 – A large sum of money was recovered in Kolkata on Tuesday ahead of the assembly elections. Approximately ₹19 lakh was seized from the Shyambazar area in north Kolkata.Two individuals have been arrested in connection with the incident, according to a senior officer of the...

New Delhi, April 7 As many as 43 delegates from 23 countries, including representatives from five foreign missions here, will be visiting Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry to observe the assembly elections firsthand.The delegates are part of the International Election Visitors' Programme-2026, the...

Edappadi (Tamil Nadu), April 7 In a setback for Vijay-led TVK's attempt to contest all 234 assembly constituencies, the nomination papers of both the party's main and dummy candidates for the Edappadi assembly constituency were rejected during scrutiny on Tuesday, election officials said...

New Delhi, April 7 – Describing elections in India as festivals of democracy, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar inaugurated the International Election Visitors’ Programme (IEVP), 2026, on Tuesday, paving the way for foreign delegates to learn from the upcoming Assembly elections in...

Kottayam (Kerala), April 7 A farmer was found dead by hanging at the premises of a CPI office in the Kottayam district of Kerala on Tuesday, police said.The incident occurred in Thalayazham, near Vaikom, and the deceased was identified as Chellappan Pulikkasheri, a local farmer."He was a...

Salem (Tamil Nadu), April 7 The people of Tamil Nadu have decided that the upcoming Assembly elections will be the last for the Karunanidhi family, as they will vote out the family's rule in the state, AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami said on Tuesday.Addressing a campaign in support of...

Kolkata, April 7 – The Chief Election Commissioner (CEC), Gyanesh Kumar, will hold a virtual meeting with all Election Commission of India (ECI)-appointed poll observers for West Bengal on Wednesday to discuss the current polling booth infrastructure in the state for the upcoming two-phase...

Tirunelveli, April 7 – Actor-turned-politician and chief of Tamilaga Vettri Kazhagam (TVK), Vijay, is set to intensify his election campaign in southern Tamil Nadu, with a visit to the Tirunelveli district scheduled for April 8, party leaders confirmed on Tuesday.The announcement was made by...

Malda (WB), April 7 Congress candidate from Malda's Malatipur assembly seat, Mausam Benazir Noor, has declared assets worth over Rs 2.5 crore in her nomination affidavit, stating that no criminal case is pending against her.Noor's annual income increased from Rs 7.23 lakh in the 2020-21 fiscal...