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Kolkata, April 8 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday criticized the BJP and the Election Commission over the deletion of voters' names during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and said her party would move court again to resist the removal of electors from the...

Kolkata, April 8 West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Wednesday criticized the BJP and the Election Commission over the deletion of voters' names during the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise and said her party would file another petition in court to resist the removal of voters...

Chennai, Apr 8 Tamil Nadu will become a regressive state if the "Sanghi group" and the AIADMK, "which is shielding it," win the April 23 Assembly election, DMK leader Udhayanidhi Stalin claimed on Wednesday.Using the word "Sanghi" in obvious reference to the BJP, the deputy CM also called upon...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 8 Kerala entered the mandatory silence period on Wednesday ahead of the April 9 Assembly polls, with candidates and party workers making last-ditch efforts to reach out to voters through door-to-door visits and personal contacts.After nearly a month-long campaign, a...

New Delhi, April 8 The BJP on Wednesday announced Rakesh Singh as its candidate for the Kolkata Port constituency in the upcoming West Bengal assembly elections.With this, the party has announced the names of 293 candidates out of the 294 seats in the state.West Bengal will go to the polls...

Thoothukudi, April 8 – In light of the upcoming Tamil Nadu Assembly elections, Thoothukudi District Collector and District Election Officer, Vishu Mahajan, has issued a detailed advisory mandating prior certification for all political advertisements, as part of strict enforcement of Election...

Imphal, April 7 – Manipur Chief Minister Yumnam Khemchand Singh chaired a meeting of all political parties on Tuesday night to review the situation in the state following a deadly bomb attack in Bishnupur district that claimed the lives of two children and injured their mother.An official from...

New Delhi, April 7 – Since the Trinamool Congress came to power in 2011, it has steadily consolidated its position, starting with 184 seats in 2011, reaching 211 in 2016, and finally securing 215 in the 2021 Assembly elections.Murshidabad, a district that has been in the news for violent...

Edappadi (Tamil Nadu), April 7 In a setback for Vijay-led TVK's attempt to contest all 234 assembly constituencies, the nomination papers of both the party's main and dummy candidates for the Edappadi assembly constituency were rejected during scrutiny on Tuesday, election officials said...

Thiruvananthapuram, April 7 – As Kerala’s high-octane election campaign drew to a close on Tuesday, State BJP president Rajeev Chandrasekhar made a sharp statement on social media, blending cultural references with political messaging.“In Kerala, the end of the campaign is marked by organizing...

Dhaka, April 7 – Pakistan and its former collaborator, the radical Islamist party Jamaat-e-Islami of Bangladesh, have refused to offer a clear, unconditional apology for the atrocities committed during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War. This reflects not only a historical failure but also a...

Gandhinagar, April 7 – The Gujarat BJP’s state election committee (Parliamentary Board) held a nearly six-hour meeting at the Chief Minister’s residence in Gandhinagar on Tuesday to discuss the selection of candidates for the upcoming local self-government elections.The meeting was attended by...

Puducherry, April 7 Tamil Nadu Deputy Chief Minister Udhayanidhi Stalin launched a sharp attack on the BJP-led Centre on Tuesday, alleging that Puducherry is being used as a "testing ground" for policies that he described as detrimental to the public.Addressing campaign meetings for candidates...

Puducherry, April 7 Political parties and their candidates made a frantic, last-ditch effort to win over voters as the campaign for the Puducherry assembly elections came to a close on Tuesday.Candidates spent the day crisscrossing the union territory to make their final appeals before the 6...

Kolkata, April 7 The TMC and the BJP are two sides of the same coin, and West Bengal needs a new coin, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday, as he hailed his party's decision to go solo after 20 years and offer the state a "third path."Addressing a press conference on the launch of...

Salem (Tamil Nadu), April 7 The people of Tamil Nadu have decided that the upcoming Assembly elections will be the last for the Karunanidhi family, as they will vote out the family's rule in the state, AIADMK chief Edappadi K Palaniswami said on Tuesday.Addressing a campaign in support of...

Ranchi, April 7 Jharkhand BJP chief Aditya Sahu said on Tuesday that the party's aim is to form a "double-engine" government in the state by 2029.Addressing newly elected party office-bearers, Sahu urged them to expose the alleged wrongdoings of the JMM-led state government at their respective...

Jorhat (Assam), April 7 Assam Congress chief Gaurav Gogoi alleged on Tuesday that BJP workers from other states have entered the state in large numbers to exercise their franchise in the Assembly elections.Speaking to reporters during a roadshow in Jorhat, where he is making his Assembly...

Kolkata, April 7 The TMC and the BJP are two sides of the same coin, and West Bengal needs a new coin, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said on Tuesday, as he hailed his party's decision to go solo after 20 years and show a "third path" to the state.Addressing a press conference on the Congress'...

Kolkata, April 7 The Congress party released its manifesto for the upcoming assembly elections in West Bengal on Tuesday, promising, among other things, free education for women up to the postgraduate level and filling all vacant government positions within one year.The manifesto, released by...