legislative elections

Guwahati, March 22 – Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma expressed confidence on Sunday that the BJP would achieve a decisive victory in the Barak Valley in the upcoming Assembly elections, asserting that the party is well-positioned to win at least 10 Assembly constituencies in the region...

The Bharatiya Janata Party has released its first list of candidates for the Puducherry Legislative Assembly elections, announcing nominees for 9 out of the 10 seats allocated to it. The list includes Home Minister Namasivayam from Mannadipet, State President V.P. Ramalingam from Raj Bhavan...

New Delhi, March 20 The people of Kerala are ready for change, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi said on Friday, as he campaigned for a UDF government in the state."The UDF is the team of Kerala," he said in a post on X."Each candidate represents the voice, aspirations, and trust of the people of...

Guwahati, March 19 The opposition AIUDF announced its third list of six candidates for the Assam elections on Thursday.The Badruddin Ajmal-led party has so far nominated candidates for 27 constituencies.Former MLAs Sheikh Shah Alam and Ali Akbar Miah have been fielded in Jaleswar and...

Kannur, March 19 – Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan and his wife, Kamala, together hold deposits exceeding Rs 1 crore, according to an affidavit submitted on Thursday along with his nomination papers for the Dharmadam Assembly constituency.Kerala will go to the polls on April 9 to elect 140 new...

Ranchi, March 19 The Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, which aims to establish itself as a national political force rather than a regional party, is planning to contest over 30 seats in the upcoming elections for the 126-member Assam assembly.The party intends to appeal to the approximately 70 lakh...

Kolkata, March 18 Three-time Trinamool Congress MLA from Amdanga, Rafiqur Rahman, urged the party leadership on Wednesday to reconsider its decision to field a new candidate from the constituency.Protests erupted after the party announced Peerzada Kasem Siddiqui as its candidate for the seat...

New Delhi/Guwahati, March 18 A day after he quit the Congress, Assam MP Pradyut Bordoloi, on Wednesday joined the BJP in the presence of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and other leaders of the saffron party in New Delhi.He was formally inducted into the BJP by its state president Dilip...

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...

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...

Puducherry, March 17: Signs of a growing rift within the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) in Puducherry have emerged after Chief Minister and All India N.R. Congress (AINRC) leader N. Rangasamy reportedly boycotted a crucial alliance meeting convened by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on...

Chandigarh, March 17 Leaders of both parties have claimed that BJP's Sanjay Bhatia and Congress's Karamvir Singh Boudh have been declared elected to two Rajya Sabha seats.Congress MLA and former Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda said that his party nominee Boudh has won."It is our...

Patna, March 16 – Leaders of the Mahagathbandhan (Grand Alliance) on Monday accused the BJP-led NDA of using money and administrative resources to influence the outcome of the Rajya Sabha elections in Bihar, following the alliance's defeat.Tejashwi Yadav, the national working president of the...

Guwahati, March 16 The CPI(M), a part of the Congress-led opposition alliance in Assam, on Monday announced candidates for two seats for the upcoming assembly elections in April, retaining incumbent MLA Manoranjan Talukdar among its nominees.State CPI(M) secretary Suprakash Talukdar asserted...

New Delhi, March 16 – As voting for the biennial elections to 37 seats in the Rajya Sabha began on Monday, leaders from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as well as the opposition Biju Janata Dal (BJD) appeared confident that their respective candidates would win the elections.BJP MP Praveen...

Shimla, March 16 As many as 31 Haryana Congress MLAs, who had been staying in Himachal Pradesh since Friday evening, left for Chandigarh from Kasauli in the Solan district on Monday morning, under tight security, to participate in the Rajya Sabha elections.The Haryana MLAs were seen raising...

Bhubaneswar, March 16 Polling for four Rajya Sabha seats in Odisha began on Monday, with the opposition BJD accusing the ruling BJP of engaging in "horse trading."Voting commenced at 9 am and will continue until 4 pm at the assembly complex, where MLAs have begun casting their ballots, an...

Bhubaneswar, March 16 Polling for four Rajya Sabha seats from Odisha will be held on Monday, with the opposition BJD accusing the ruling BJP of engaging in "horse trading".The voting for the RS polls will be held in the state after a gap of 12 years, as this time, five candidates are in the...

Patna, March 15 – Voting for five Rajya Sabha seats from Bihar is scheduled for Monday, with intense political activity underway between the ruling National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and the opposition Mahagathbandhan.Amid speculation about the numbers, the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul...

Patna, March 15 Hectic political activity was observed in Bihar on Sunday, the eve of elections for five Rajya Sabha seats, in which the ruling NDA hopes to achieve a clean sweep, even as the RJD rallied support in favor of its lone candidate.Elections for the five Rajya Sabha seats from Bihar...