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SC to hear plea on March 24 seeking stay on sale of fresh electoral bonds
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 18 (ANI): The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on March 24 plea of a non-governmental organisation Association For Democratic Reforms (ADR) seeking a stay on the sale of fresh electoral bonds ahead of state assembly elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kera
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Congress writes to Sharad Pawar, Tejashwi Yadav, requests them not to camp
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Kolkata (West Bengal) [India], March 17 (ANI): Congress leader and Rajya Sabha MP from West Bengal, Pradip Bhattacharya has written to Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) chief Sharad Pawar and RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav, asking them not to campaign for the TMC in the upcoming West Bengal Assemb
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Cong should break tradition, project chief ministerial candidate in electi
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 16 (ANI): Congress general secretary and former Uttarakhand chief minister Harish Rawat has opened a new debate for the party that the Congress should declare the chief ministerial candidate in the assembly elections as the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) fight elect
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Twitter India launches multi-lingual initiatives ahead of assembly electio
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 15 (ANI): Ahead of assembly elections 2021, Twitter on Monday announced a series of initiatives focused on encouraging informed healthy conversations between candidates, political parties, citizens, media and society.
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Congress leader takes jibe at party over non-inclusion of G-23 in campaign
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 15 (ANI): Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit has taken potshots at his party for not including 'infamous' G-23 in the party's star campaigners list for ensuing West Bengal and Assam Assembly elections, saying if the high command thinks that 30 leaders selected for ca
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Star campaigners must adhere to security protocols during election campaig
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 14 (ANI): The Election Commission of India on Sunday announced that star campaigners, who have been provided with security cover by the security agencies, must adhere to the security protocols laid down to avoid any security breach which may expose them to risk.
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Urdu Bulletin: Rakesh Tikait's appeal to WB voters, Yashwant Sinha joining
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 14 (ANI): Various Urdu newspapers in their Sunday editions reported farmers' entry into West Bengal politics ahead of the forthcoming Assembly elections. They also reported that farmer leader Rakesh Tikait has appealed to voters not to vote for Bharatiya Janata Party
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Ahead of assembly polls, IT raids 20 places in Tamil Nadu over money distr
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], March 11 (ANI): The Income Tax (IT) department on Thursday raided at least 20 places in Chennai, Kanchipuram, Coimbatore, and Madurai in connection with money distribution ahead of the assembly elections in the state.
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Kerala minister regrets 2018 protests regarding women entry in Sabarimala
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Thiruvananthapuram (Kerala) [India], March 11 (ANI): Ahead of the assembly elections in Kerala, senior CPI(M) leader and Devaswom Minister Kadakampally Surendran on Thursday expressed regret over the incidents that took place in Sabarimala Temple over the women entry issue.
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Notice to Election Commission seeking to debar poll campaigners for violat
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 11 (ANI): A legal notice has been sent to the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Thursday seeking to debar election campaigners for violation of COVID-19 protocol during campaigning in Assembly elections of Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry.
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No groups within Congress, party united in defeating BJP, says Anand Sharm
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 11 (ANI): Rejecting the allegation of groupism in Congress Party, senior party leader Anand Sharma on Wednesday said there were no two groups within the party as all were fighting unitedly under the leadership of Sonia Gandhi to defeat the Bharatiya Janata Party (
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PC Chacko resigns from Congress, says groupism practiced by top party lead
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 10 (ANI): In a setback to Congress ahead of Kerala Assembly polls, PC Chacko on Wednesday announced his resignation from the party and said that there is groupism practiced by top leaders of Congress.
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