The amendments shall come into force on July 12, the date of the publication in the Official Gazette-- a move in anticipation of the speculated assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir.
The voting for the Maharashtra Legislative Council Elections is underway at Vidhan Sabha for the 11 seats of the Council and will go on till 4 pm on Friday.
Outlining key objectives of the "Haryana Maange Hisaab" campaign, Haryana Assembly leader of opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda on Thursday said that the party aims to reach out to the people, hear their complaints and include it in the manifesto for the upcoming state assembly elections.
The Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) will jointly contest upcoming Haryana elections, Abhay Singh Chautala, Secretary General, Indian National Lok Dal announced on Thursday.
As the Maharashtra assembly elections are slated to be held later this year, discussions on seat-sharing in the Maha Vikas Aghadi alliance consisting of the Congress, the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP), and the Shiv Sena (UBT) among others are underway.
Calling most of the leaders of Delhi Congress as "chugalakhor" (snitcher), Congress leader Udit Raj on Thursday said that there is a need for a big change in leadership in Delhi Congress as the party is weak here because of party people.
"What 13th July, when the Government makes its role clear regarding Maratha reservation, we will make it clear that what we have to do - whether we have to field our candidate for Vidhan Sabha elections or just make someone lose. We will decide our role in the coming days," Patil said spe
Union Minister and Telangana BJP chief G Kishan Reddy on Tuesday hit out at Congress over the six guarantees the party made during the Telangana Assembly elections and said that the party failed to implement these guarantees adding that Congress party's habit is to give "false guarantees."
Earlier, Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini asserted on Sunday that Congress will be able to win any seat in the assembly elections as the Bharatiya Janata Party is strong in all 90 assembly seats in the state.
"After 60 years, a government being elected for the third time in India is a very big thing in itself. State Assembly elections were held in four states- Arunachal Pradesh, Sikkim, Andhra Pradesh and Odisha. The NDA won in these four states with a clean sweep majority"