Tag: Candidates

AAP announces three Rajya Sabha candidates  

The 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,...

January 3, 2018

Gujarat polls: 1,828 candidates in fray for 182 seats

A 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...

December 2, 2017

Congress comes out with 15 more candidates

Amidst 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...

November 27, 2017

BJP announces third list of candidates for Gujarat

The 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...

November 20, 2017

25 lakh candidates appear in Bengal Group-D exam

Around 25 lakh job aspirants on Saturday appeared in a competitive written examination for 6,000 Group D posts of the West Bengal government amid high security. The examinees, who appeared in centres across the state, included 5.5 lakhs from neighbouring states like Bihar and Jharkhand. Many of the candidates reached Howrah, Sealdah and other important...

May 20, 2017

J-K BJP authorises party high command to decide candidates

The Jammu and Kashmir (J-K) Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit on Saturday authorised the party highcommand to decide whether it should contest the byelection for two Lok Sabha seats in Kashmir against its own ruling coalition partner PDP. However, there were indications that the BJP highcommand might not allow the state unit to contest the election...

March 18, 2017

AAP announces 109 candidates for Delhi civic polls

The AAP on Friday announced the names of 109 candidates in its first list for Delhi civic body polls to be conducted in April. "This is the first list of 109 candidates for civic polls. The selection process of the names the candidates for the remaining wards is going on. Another list will be announced...

February 24, 2017