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The first nomination for the upcoming Assembly elections in the Barpeta district was filed today, among its four Assembly constituencies.Independent candidate Faruk Khan submitted his nomination from the newly formed Mandia constituency at the District Commissioner’s office. He arrived alone...

Chennai, March 16 Tamil Nadu’s Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Archana Patnaik clarified on Monday that candidates contesting the April 23 Tamil Nadu Assembly elections will effectively have only five working days to file their nomination papers, despite the Election Commission announcing an...

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...

New Delhi, March 16 – The Election Commission of India (ECI) appointed a special observer on Monday to oversee the upcoming Assam Assembly elections, while also announcing the official schedule for the polls covering all 126 constituencies in the state.According to an official communication...

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...

Kolkata, March 15: Elections for the 294-member West Bengal Assembly will be held in two phases on April 23 and April 29, while the results will be announced on May 4, Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar said on Sunday.In the first phase, scheduled for April 23, polling will take...

Bhubaneswar, March 5 A total of five candidates—two each from the BJP and the BJD, and one supported by the saffron party—filed their nomination papers on Thursday for four Rajya Sabha seats in Odisha, sparking the possibility of cross-voting as neither the ruling party nor the opposition has...

Kolkata, March 5 – The process of filing nominations for four Trinamool Congress candidates and one Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for election to the Rajya Sabha from West Bengal was completed at the state Assembly on Thursday.Incidentally, the total number of Rajya Sabha seats from...

Bhubaneswar, March 5 Senior Biju Janata Dal (BJD) leader and the party's nominee, Santrupt Misra, along with the opposition parties' joint candidate, Dr. Datteswar Hota, filed their nominations for the Rajya Sabha biennial elections on Thursday.Former Chief Minister and BJD president, Naveen...

Mumbai, March 5 Six candidates from the Mahayuti alliance, including Union Minister Ramdas Athawale and BJP leader Vinod Tawde, along with opposition Maha Vikas Aghadi nominee Sharad Pawar, filed their nominations on Thursday for the seven Rajya Sabha seats from Maharashtra that will become...

Hyderabad, March 5 Congress candidates Abhishek Singhvi and Vem Narender Reddy filed their nominations at the Telangana Legislative Assembly here on Thursday for the biennial election to the Rajya Sabha.The duo is contesting to fill two vacant seats in the Rajya Sabha from the state.Chief...

Chandigarh, March 5 Satish Nandal, who unsuccessfully contested the 2019 Haryana assembly elections, announced on Thursday that he will file his nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections from Haryana as an Independent.With Nandal entering the race, the Rajya Sabha elections are set to witness...

New Delhi, March 5 – Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national president Nitin Nabin filed his nomination for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections on Thursday, paving the way for his entry into the Upper House.Nitin Nabin, accompanied by a group of BJP leaders and supporters, submitted his...

Patna, March 5 Amid intense political developments in Bihar, Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday filed his nomination papers for the Rajya Sabha elections.All five candidates, including Nitin Nabin, Shivesh Kumar Ram, and Upendra Kushwaha of the ruling alliance, also submitted their...

Three candidates filed their nominations for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections from Assam on Thursday. The nominations were submitted to the Returning Officer by the ruling NDA – BJP's Jogen Mohan and Terash Gowala, along with UPPL's Pramod Boro.Notably, no opposition or independent...

Mumbai, March 5 Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut said on Thursday that unfavourable political calculations and the candidature of NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar were the key reasons why the party could not field Priyanka Chaturvedi again for the Rajya Sabha election.Raut said that while there...

Hyderabad, March 5 Abhishek Manu Singhvi and Vem Narender Reddy filed their nominations on Thursday as candidates for the Congress party for two seats in the Rajya Sabha from Telangana.They submitted their nomination papers to the returning officer, Upender Reddy, at the Telangana Assembly...

Patna, March 5 – Nitish Kumar, leader of the JD(U), announced on Thursday that he will be contesting the Rajya Sabha elections, effectively ending his tenure as the longest-serving Chief Minister of Bihar.Kumar, who has served as Chief Minister for a record 10 terms since 2005, stated that the...

Raipur, March 5 The opposition Congress in Chhattisgarh has renominated senior tribal leader Phulo Devi Netam, an incumbent Rajya Sabha member, as its candidate for the March 16 biennial Rajya Sabha elections.The party announced Netam's candidature on Wednesday night.Of the five Rajya Sabha...

Chennai, March 4 The opposition AIADMK nominated its sitting Rajya Sabha MP, M Thambidurai, for the biennial election on March 16, while also allocating a seat to its ally, the PMK.Following a decision by the party, AIADMK general secretary Edappadi K Palaniswami announced that Thambidurai...