by-election

New Delhi, March 17 – Trinamool Congress Chairperson Mamata Banerjee refused to fall for the bait offered by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to avenge her 2021 defeat in Nandigram, which forced her to contest from the safer seat of Bhabanipur so that she could continue to be the Chief Minister...

The Election Commission of India has issued a notification today for the by-election to the Dharmanagar Assembly constituency. The process of filing nominations has started today. However, no nomination papers were filed on the first day.Nominations will be accepted until March 23. The...

Agartala/Kohima, March 16 – The official notifications for the by-elections on April 9 for two Assembly constituencies in the northeastern states of Tripura and Nagaland were issued on Monday, officials said.According to the notifications issued by the election authorities in the two states...

Gandhinagar, March 16 – The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) announced on Monday that it will contest all 12,000 seats in the upcoming local self-government elections in Gujarat.The first list of candidates is expected to be released after a three-day screening process currently underway. The...

Panaji, March 16 Chief Minister Pramod Sawant said on Monday that the continuation of Goa's budget session will depend on the opinion of the Election Commission of India (ECI), following the announcement of a by-election for an assembly seat in the South Goa district.The budget session of the...

Ahmedabad, March 16 The vote share of the Other Backward Class (OBC) community, combined with the dominance of the Patidar community, shapes electoral politics in the Umreth assembly constituency in the Anand district of Gujarat, where a by-election is scheduled on April 23.The constituency...

Ahmedabad, March 15 The OBC vote, combined with the dominance of the Patidar community, shapes electoral politics in the Umreth assembly constituency in the Anand district of Gujarat, where a by-election will be held on April 23.The constituency has been won by four different parties...

New Delhi/Ahmedabad, March 15 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) announced a by-election to the Umreth Assembly constituency in Gujarat on Sunday, following the death of incumbent MLA Govind Parmar earlier this month.The announcement was made at a press conference addressed by Chief...

Bagalkote (Karnataka), March 14 – Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister and state Congress President D.K. Shivakumar appealed to the people on Saturday to once again bless the Congress government in the upcoming by-elections, stating that the government has been implementing welfare programs for the...

Bagalkote (Karnataka), March 14 Responding to the issue of LPG cylinder supply, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah has said that ensuring smooth supply was the responsibility of the Central government.He was speaking to reporters at the Navanagar helipad in Bagalkote on Saturday.He said...

Gwalior, March 9 The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday overturned the election of Congress MLA Mukesh Malhotra, citing that he deliberately suppressed information about the charges in two criminal cases during the 2024 by-election, noting that voters were misled through this "corrupt...

Gwalior, March 9 The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday declared the election of Congress MLA, Mukesh Malhotra, from Vijaypur constituency as "null and void" due to his failure to disclose pending criminal cases during the 2024 by-election.The Gwalior bench of the HC declared BJP candidate...

Gwalior, March 9 – The Madhya Pradesh High Court declared the election of Congress MLA Mukesh Malhotra from the Vijaypur Assembly constituency in Sheopur district as "null and void" on Monday, stating that there were "irregularities" and "concealment" in the electoral process.The High Court...

Gwalior, March 9 The Madhya Pradesh High Court on Monday declared the election of Congress MLA, Mukesh Malhotra, from the Vijaypur constituency as "null and void" due to his failure to disclose pending criminal cases during the 2024 by-election.The Gwalior bench declared BJP candidate Ramniwas...

Palakkad (Kerala), March 9 – Expelled Congress MLA Rahul Mamkootathil has stated that he will not contest the Palakkad Assembly constituency as an independent candidate in the upcoming Assembly elections in Kerala, even as speculation intensifies over his political future amid multiple legal...

Kolkata, March 1 – The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) aims to mount a strong challenge to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee in her Assembly constituency, Bhabanipur, in the upcoming Assembly elections.The leader of the Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly and veteran BJP leader...

London, February 24 A campaign video produced by the Green Party in Urdu for a by-election taking place in northwest England this week has come under fire for its depiction of British Prime Minister Keir Starmer with his Indian and Israeli counterparts.All parties are actively campaigning for...

Guwahati, February 17 Former Assam Congress chief Bhupen Borah, who has tendered his resignation from the party, said he would announce by Tuesday evening his final decision on whether or not he would withdraw it, as requested by the central leadership.Speaking to reporters this morning, Borah...

February 11, New Delhi – U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is facing increasing pressure following revelations that revived scrutiny of his past connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Lutnick admitted to having lunch with Epstein on Epstein's private Caribbean island in...