candidate selection

Guwahati, March 19 – In a significant political development ahead of the Assam Assembly elections, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Nihar Ranjan Das, on Thursday, resigned from the party's primary membership after being denied a party ticket from the Dholai Assembly constituency in the Barak...

Bengaluru, March 19 Karnataka Deputy Chief Minister D K Shivakumar said on Thursday that there is no legal impediment to issuing a notification for the Upper Krishna River Phase-3 project, including raising the height of the Almatti dam, and indicated that the state would soon take a decision...

Kochi, March 19 Congress leaders who were not included in the initial candidate list for the upcoming Assembly elections remain hopeful of being considered at the last minute by the party leadership.Earlier, the party had announced 55 candidates, and the remaining candidates are likely to be...

Kochi, March 19 – Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, V.D. Satheesan, said on Thursday that issues within the CPI(M) are getting worse, and that if it took 33 years for its decline in West Bengal, the party in Kerala appears to be heading down a similar path much faster.“After a decade...

Kochi/New Delhi, March 19 Senior Congress leader V D Satheesan said on Thursday that all issues regarding the selection of party candidates for the upcoming elections in the state have been resolved.Satheesan, speaking to reporters in New Delhi early in the morning, said that the full list of...

Kollam (Kerala), March 19 For Congress leader Bindhu Krishna, the upcoming April 9 elections in the Kollam constituency carry special significance.For her, it is not just another election, but also a moment that highlights a long-standing demand within the party.The Congress, she says, has...

New Delhi, March 18 The BJP's Central Election Committee held a meeting here on Wednesday to discuss and finalize the names of the party candidates for the upcoming Assembly polls in Assam and Puducherry.The meeting, presided over by Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) chief Nitin Nabin, was attended...

Guwahati, March 18 Assam Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Gaurav Gogoi on Tuesday termed Lok Sabha MP Pradyut Bordoloi's resignation from the party and subsequent joining of the BJP as unfortunate, and said the senior leader was "upset for personal reasons".Gogoi also said that he...

Bengaluru, March 18 Amid intense lobbying, Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Wednesday that the selection of candidates for the April 9 assembly bypolls to the Bagalkote and Davanagere Assembly constituencies will be decided by the Congress high command, with consultations underway...

Thiruvananthapuram/New Delhi, March 18 Senior Congress leader V D Satheesan said on Wednesday that there was no difference within the UDF regarding seat distribution, unlike other fronts like the LDF and the BJP-led NDA.Satheesan also said that the remaining names of the Congress candidates...

Kozhikode (Kerala), March 18 In a first, the IUML is fielding two women candidates simultaneously in the Kerala Assembly elections to be held on April 9.Previously, the IUML had given a seat to each woman in the 1996 and 2021 Assembly elections.The UDF, a key constituent, IUML, announced its...

Kolkata/Jalpaiguri, March 18 Signs of discontent emerged within the TMC as MLA Khageswar Roy of Rajganj resigned from his position in the Jalpaiguri district party after being denied a ticket in the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections.Roy, a three-time MLA from Rajganj in Jalpaiguri and a...

Thiruvananthapuram, March 18. Discontent has now spread to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Kerala unit following the announcement of its first list of candidates for the Assembly elections, mirroring similar unrest within both the Indian National Congress and the CPI(M).With Kerala set to...

Kolkata, March 17 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday said that the Trinamool Congress (TMC) has focused on both youth and experience when selecting candidates for the upcoming assembly elections, in order to continue the party's development agenda.After releasing the list of...

New Delhi, March 17 – Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma said on Tuesday that several sitting MLAs of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the state are likely to be denied tickets in the upcoming Assembly elections, with the party leadership opting for a mix of new faces, women, and young...

Kaliganj, March 17 A group of CPI(M) workers ransacked the party's own office in Kaliganj, a constituency in Nadia district of West Bengal, because they were unhappy with the candidate selected by the leadership for the area.CPI(M) sources said that a group of party workers stormed the local...

Kolkata, March 17 In one of its biggest candidate reshuffles in recent elections, the ruling TMC dropped 74 sitting MLAs, nearly a third of its legislative strength, while announcing candidates for 291 of the 294 West Bengal assembly seats on Tuesday, signaling a calibrated anti-incumbency...

Puducherry, March 17 Political activities are intensifying in Puducherry as parties intensify discussions on seat-sharing and finalize candidates for the upcoming assembly elections.With the elections scheduled for April 9, both the NDA and INDIA blocs are racing to resolve internal...

New Delhi, March 17 The Congress' Central Election Committee (CEC) met here on Tuesday and finalized the names of candidates for a significant number of seats in the upcoming Kerala Assembly elections.Speaking to reporters after the meeting, Congress general secretary in-charge organization, K...

Chennai, March 17 – Actor-turned-politician Vijay has firmly dismissed speculation of an alliance with the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA), announcing that his party, TVK, will contest the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections independently.This decision is set to reshape the...