Tag: Lok Sabha Polls
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Why poll reforms are essential
Current Chief Election Commissioner Sunil Arora has also expressed his intention to curb the use of black money during the elections.
April 21, 2019 -
Congress yet to name candidates from high-profile Varanasi, Lucknow seats
Even as the UP party leaders preferred to remain non-committal on the subject of Priyanka contesting from Varanasi, the shifting of former Congress MP Rajesh Mishra to Salempur has set the rumour mills churning.
April 14, 2019 -
Stakes high for BJP MP Anurag Thakur in 2019 poll
BJP’s Chief Whip in Lok Sabha, Anurag Thakur, 44, had fought his first election when his father, Dhumal, had vacated Hamirpur Lok Sabha seat in 2008 after becoming CM of Himachal second time.
April 14, 2019 -
Himachal sets special polling booths for differently abled
Chief Electoral Officer Devesh Kumar said special arrangements have been made by setting up 10 special polling stations for them in the state.
April 14, 2019 -
DMK-led coalition has the edge
Going by present indications, it is advantage DMK coalition.
April 14, 2019 -
Where is the double engine of the BJP: Naveen
Seeking votes in the name of Modi alone will not help as Modi cannot be the PM as well as the CM.
April 13, 2019 -
Azad accuses Modi of creating war hysteria after having failed to implement last election’s promises
Azad said that all those promises and commitments which were made by Modi and BJP during the last elections have proved to be hollow and “jumlas” and after five years Modi government and BJP do not talk of their report card on all those promises but creating fear psychosis, mistrust and war hysteria.
April 13, 2019 -
BJP tells Anil Sharma to quit from assembly too on moral grounds
The BJP leaders said Sharma was indulging in indiscipline as he was canvassing for his son, Ashray Sharma, a Congress candidate from the Mandi Lok Sabha seat secretly.
April 13, 2019 -
Poll boycott call of separatists might help BJP, fear Kashmir mainstream parties
As a strategy to prevent the division of their votes, the NC and PDP have not fielded their candidates against the Congress on both Lok Sabha seats of the Jammu division.
April 13, 2019 -
Don’t forget 2004, says Sonia after filing nomination from Rae Bareli
The tradition of participating in puja and havan before filing the nomination papers was started by Sonia Gandhi’s mother-in-law Indira Gandhi when she contested from Rae Bareli for the first time in 1967.
April 11, 2019 -
Lack of political will eludes tribal status to Trans-Giri area
Hatti community’s demand for tribal status still gathering dust in files in the last five decades while their counterparts in Uttarakhand avail benefits of the status since 1967.
April 10, 2019 -
Separatists call for boycott of Lok Sabha elections beginning Thursday
The separatists called for a boycott of the subsequent four phases of polling.
April 10, 2019 -
Wives of gang-lords eyeing Siwan
The change in government saw speedy trial of the cases pending against Shahabuddin for long, and thus began his conviction in one after another cases, leaving him caged within the four walls.
April 10, 2019 -
Terrorists kill RSS leader, PSO in Kishtwar; Army called
Deputy Commissioner of Kishtwar, Angrez Singh Rana, confirmed the incident and said that army has been called out to prevent violence.
April 9, 2019 -
Election Commission bans exit polls 11 April onwards
The commission has also asked electronic and print media to refrain from telecasting or publishing programmes which in any way may predict the results of the elections during the prohibited period starting 11 April.
April 9, 2019 -
Congress manifesto promises loan waiver, job for every family in Odisha
On the farming sector, the manifesto, apart from promising waiver of crop loans up to Rs 2 lakh per family within the 10 days of government formation, held out special financial assistance of Rs 10,000 per year to farmers for three years and that the minimum support price (MSP) of paddy per quintal would be hiked to Rs 2,600.
April 7, 2019 -
Amit Shah releases nine-point manifesto for Odisha
After completing 10+2 exam, meritorious students will be given two-wheelers, the manifesto said.
April 7, 2019