He specifically mentioned that both the Congress contestants from wards. No. 11 and 4 of Behrampore municipality have dozens of criminal records. Moreover, the Congress nominees from wards no. 5, 21 and 27 also have criminal antecedents, Mukherjee alleged.
February 18, 2022"There is no question of any change. It is party chief Mamata Banerjee's instructions. Party leaders and workers will have to accept the list of candidates and work for them." A party insider, meanwhile, said: "If we break the list after changing a single candidate, it would be very difficult to tackle a chain of reaction."
January 2, 2022The Left Front, after much deliberation on the matter of fielding candidates, which included a possible seat-sharing understanding with the Congress, has eventually decided to field its own candidates in about 127 seats and spare 17 wards for “non-Left” candidates.
November 27, 2021BJP has fielded Ashok Mondal from the Dinhata Assembly constituency in West Bengal, Niranjan Biswas (Santipur), Joy Saha (Khardaha) and Palash Rana (Gosaba)
October 7, 2021Abdur Rauf of All India Forward Block will be contesting from Dinhata assembly constituency while CPI-M’s Soumen Mahato will contest from Shantipur. CPI-M candidate Debajyoti Das will be contesting the Khardaha seat and RSP candidate Anil Chandra Mondal will be contesting from Gosaba.
October 5, 2021Contesting polls for such candidates became possible after subsection 3 of section 33 in Tamil Nadu Panchayat Act, 1994 was amended to remove the clause, "deaf, mute and persons affected with leprosy" who were earlier barred from fighting polls.
September 28, 2021The way huge crowds are attending each rally of Tejashwi and the chief minister Nitish Kumar facing protests at his rallies amply hint at anger against the ruling regime. What remains very alarming is the deteriorating level of the chief minister’s election speeches at his rallies.
October 28, 2020Those in favour of a deferment including Chief Ministers of important states such as West Bengal, Maharashtra and Odisha argue that the holding of the examinations, which decide admissions to engineering and medical colleges, will endanger public safety and put to inconvenience candidates who will have to travel long distances to reach test centres.
August 28, 2020A keen battle is on the cards in Madhya Pradesh, where the Kamal Nath government is on a sticky wicket following a rebellion by 22 MLAs, as both the BJP and the Congress have announced two candidates each for the state's three seats.
March 19, 2020All eyes will be on three of the 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh which go to polls on 6 May - Lucknow, Amethi and Rae Bareli.
May 5, 2019A total of 1285 candidates are in the fray for the 17th Lok Sabha from the 91 constituencies which go to polls on Thursday.
April 10, 2019Chhattisgarh, the first of the five states where assembly elections are being held, will witness the first phase of polling on 12 November in 18 of the 90-seat legislative assembly. The next phase will be held on 20 November in the rest of the constituencies.
November 9, 2018Tattoo-sporting candidates cannot be guaranteed a job in the Indian Air Force (IAF). This stipulation has now got judicial stamp with the Delhi High Court upholding the decision of the Air Force cancelling a man’s appointment for the post of airman as he had carved a permanent tattoo on the external side of his forearm. …
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January 28, 2018The AAP on Wednesday named veteran leader Sanjay Singh, businessman Sushil Gupta and chartered accountant Narain Dass Gupta as its debutants for the Rajya Sabha, sparking criticism from founding member Kumar Vishwas and other political parties. The decision was finalised at a meeting of the Political Affairs Committee (PAC), the AAP’s highest decision making body, …
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January 3, 2018A total of 1,828 candidates are going to contest for 182 seats in the Gujarat Assembly elections scheduled in December 2017, according to data released by the Election Commission of India (ECI). The state assembly elections will conducted over two phases on 9 and 14 December. This year Assembly elections will see the highest number of …
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December 2, 2017Amidst disgruntled ticket aspirants some of who have decided to fight as independents, the Congress on Monday declared 15 more candidates for the second phase of the Gujarat Assembly elections. Monday is the last day for filing nominations. For the Gandhinagar North seat they have once again fielded old loyalist C.J. Chavda. Chavda had won …
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November 27, 2017The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Monday came out with its third list of 28 candidates for the Gujarat Assembly elections. The list includes the sitting MLA and Assembly Speaker Raman Vora, who will contest from the Scheduled Caste (SC) seat of Dasada, and sitting MLA and former cabinet Minister Saurabh Patel, who will contest …
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November 20, 2017