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Kolkata, March 9 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday accused Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar of threatening state officials during a meeting, and warned that "false bravado" by constitutional authorities was not acceptable.Her remarks came against the backdrop of the...

Raipur, March 9 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Laxmi Verma and Congress nominee Phulo Devi Netam were unopposed elected to the Rajya Sabha from Chhattisgarh on Monday, a state Assembly official said.Verma and Netam had filed nominations for the March 16 biennial polls to the Rajya...

Shimla, March 9 – Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Sukhvinder Sukhu said on Monday that it is a proud day for Congress workers, as a worker who rose through the ranks has become an MP.Speaking at a ceremony here to celebrate the election of Congress leader Anurag Sharma as a Member of...

Kolkata, March 9 – Five candidates vying for the five Rajya Sabha seats from West Bengal were declared unopposed on Monday. Of the five candidates, four are from the Trinamool Congress and one from the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).Monday was the last date for withdrawing nominations, and since...

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...

Chennai, March 9 Six candidates from the ruling DMK, the main opposition AIADMK, and their allies who had filed nominations for the biennial elections to the Rajya Sabha were declared duly elected unopposed on Monday.DMK's Tiruchi Siva and Constandine Ravindran, Congress party's Christopher...

Kolkata, March 9 Four TMC Rajya Sabha candidates and one BJP aspirant from West Bengal were virtually elected to the Upper House on Monday and received their winning certificates from the Election Commission.With the last day for withdrawal of nominations for the Rajya Sabha elections falling...

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...

Shimla, March 9 Congress candidate Anurag Sharma was declared the elected representative for the sole Rajya Sabha seat from Himachal Pradesh on Monday, which was previously held by Indu Goswami of the BJP.The election officer, the secretary of the Vidhan Sabha, made the announcement after the...

Mangaluru (Karnataka), March 7 Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah on Saturday expressed confidence that the Congress government would return to power in the state in 2028.He asserted that the five guarantee schemes introduced in 2023 have become a model for empowering the underprivileged...

Basti (UP), March 7 Bihar Panchayat Raj Minister Deepak Prakash said on Saturday that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar will continue to guide the state government even if he moves to the Rajya Sabha, asserting that there was no pressure on him to resign.Earlier this week, Nitish Kumar filed...

Mysuru, March 7 Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said on Saturday that one can only become Chief Minister with the support and blessings of the people, and added that empowering the poor and marginalized in society is his primary mission.Congratulating the people of the Chamundeshwari and...

Jammu, March 7 Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah on Saturday welcomed the elections in Nepal, saying that the formation of governments must be the choice of the people of the country, and not the result of external intervention or aerial bombardment.Abdullah said he had suggested...

Kathmandu, March 7 RSP leader and rapper-turned-politician Balendra Shah 'Balen' defeated four-time prime minister K P Sharma Oli by a significant margin of about 50,000 votes in Nepal's Jhapa-5 constituency, the Election Commission said here.The leader of the Rashtriya Swatantrata Party (RSP)...

Kathmandu, March 7 – Rabi Lamichhane, President of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), has been elected to Nepal's House of Representatives from Chitwan Constituency-2 by a significant margin. His relatively new party secured a majority of wins and led across the country in this year's...

Bhubaneswar, March 7 Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a meeting with Odisha's BJP MLAs and Rajya Sabha election candidates ahead of the March 16 elections to the Upper House of Parliament.Shah, who undertook a day-long visit to Odisha on Friday and attended marathon official programmes...

Patna, March 6 – As part of the organizational elections of the Janata Dal-United (JD-U), Umesh Singh Kushwaha, the MLA from Mahnar in the Vaishali district, has been elected as the party's Bihar unit President for the third consecutive time.Kushwaha filed his nomination for the post on...

Patna, March 6 Umesh Singh Kushwaha, president of the JD(U)'s Bihar unit, was elected to the post for the third consecutive time on Friday.According to a statement issued by the party, Kushwaha, who is an MLA from the Mahnar constituency, was declared unopposed as no other member filed a...

Pune, March 5 After filing his nomination papers on Thursday for the upcoming Rajya Sabha elections, NCP (SP) supremo Sharad Pawar thanked the people of Maharashtra for giving him another opportunity to serve in the Upper House of Parliament.On the last day of filing nominations for the March...

New Delhi, March 5 Union Home Minister Amit Shah congratulated Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar on Thursday for filing his nomination for the Rajya Sabha elections, saying his return to national politics will further strengthen the NDA's "sabka saath, sabka vikas" resolve.Shah also...