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Kolkata, April 4 The ruling TMC on Saturday announced election committees for 29 assembly constituencies in six districts.Committees were announced for the constituencies of Panskura Purba, Moyna, Nandakumar, Mahisadal, and Haldia in Purba Medinipur.The party also named committees for Haroa...

Kolkata, March 31 – Based on the average daily deletion rates of voter names during the ongoing judicial review of voters classified under the “logical discrepancy” category, the Election Commission of India (ECI) estimates that the final deletion figure at the end of the process will be...

Nominations will begin today for the Tamil Nadu Assembly elections and the first phase of Assembly elections in West Bengal, with the release of official notices. All 234 Assembly constituencies in Tamil Nadu will go to the polls on April 23rd in a single phase. Nominations for Tamil Nadu will...

New Delhi, March 29 The Congress on Sunday released its first list of 284 candidates for the upcoming West Bengal Assembly elections, fielding former state unit chief Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury from Baharampur and ex-TMC MP Mausam Noor from Malatipur.The Congress, which is going solo in the polls...

New Delhi, March 28 Top Congress leaders held detailed discussions on the party's candidates for the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections during a meeting of the Central Election Committee (CEC) here on Saturday.Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and former party chief Rahul Gandhi...

Guwahati, March 26 A total of 722 candidates remain in the running for the Assam assembly elections after 67 candidates withdrew their nominations on the last day of withdrawal on Thursday, officials said.Among the candidates who withdrew their nominations are Md Aminul Islam (representing the...

Puducherry, March 23 A total of 445 candidates have filed nominations for the 30 assembly constituencies in the Union Territory of Puducherry.The filing of nominations began on March 16 and concluded today.As many as 445 candidates have filed 515 nominations. The scrutiny of nominations is...

Gangtok, March 23 Municipal elections in Sikkim will be held on April 24, and the vote counting will take place the following day, State Election Commissioner (SEC) K C Lepcha said on Monday.The nomination filing will begin on March 30, and scrutiny will take place on March 31, he told...

Aizawl, March 23 Mizoram's ruling Zoram People's Movement (ZPM) announced its candidates for all seats in the upcoming elections to the Aizawl Municipal Corporation (AMC) on Monday.The opposition Congress also announced six more candidates for the elections, thereby fielding nominees in all 19...

Jorhat (Assam), March 23 Assam Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi filed his nomination papers from the Jorhat assembly seat on Monday, making his debut electoral foray in the state elections.The deputy leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha visited religious places of all communities before...

The deadline for filing nomination papers for the assembly elections in Assam, Kerala, and Puducherry is today. Voting in these two states and the Union Territory will take place in a single phase on the 9th of next month.The scrutiny of nomination papers will begin tomorrow. The last date for...

Bengaluru, March 22 After several rounds of discussions amidst stiff competition for party tickets, the Congress announced Umesh Meti and Samarth Mallikarjun as the party candidates for the Assembly by-elections to the Bagalkot and Davangere South assembly constituencies on Sunday.The...

Guwahati, March 19 The BJP's ally, the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP), announced 26 candidates on Thursday for the upcoming state assembly elections.Among the candidates, 13 are Muslims.Minister Atul Bora will contest again from Bokakhat, while his cabinet colleague Keshab Mahanta has been...

Agartala, March 18 The State Election Commission (SEC) announced on Wednesday that the polling date for the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) elections has been advanced to April 12 from April 13, officials said.The decision followed a unanimous resolution passed in the...

Guwahati, March 17 The All India United Democratic Front (AIUDF), the main opposition party, announced its second list of 12 candidates for the Assam Assembly elections on Tuesday, naming party president and former MP Badruddin Ajmal, along with three sitting MLAs.With this, the party has...

Kolkata, March 16 – The judicial review process has been completed for almost one-third of the cases referred under the "logical discrepancy" category during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in West Bengal, Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Manoj Kumar Agarwal said on Monday...

New Delhi, March 16 The BJP on Monday released its first list of 144 candidates for the upcoming Assembly elections in West Bengal, fielding Suvendu Adhikari from Bhabanipur in Kolkata, a seat currently held by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.According to the list, Dilip Ghosh will contest from...

New Delhi/Thiruvananthapuram, March 16 AICC General Secretary K C Venugopal accused the Election Commission of bias on Monday, alleging that the schedule for the Assembly elections was strategically engineered to undermine the Congress party by restricting its campaign window and limiting the...

Ranchi, March 15 CPI national general secretary D Raja asserted on Sunday that the Left is confident of a revival in West Bengal in the upcoming assembly elections, and it will emerge as a force to be reckoned with that will shape the political discourse of the state.Raja's statement came...

New Delhi, March 15 – While announcing the dates for the Assembly elections in Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Puducherry, Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar sent a strong message on Sunday to those attempting to misuse deepfakes and AI in election campaigns to mislead voters...