BJP's by-election candidate for Ramnagar constituency, Dipak Majumder on Saturday lashed out at the Communist Party of India (Marxist) CPIM and asserted that the party is set for a mass rejection in the upcoming by elections.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) unit in Himachal Pradesh approached the Election Commission of India (ECI) on Tuesday, seeking the transfer of officers in the Shimla parliamentary constituency to ensure free and fair elections.
All six now disqualified Congress MLAs--Rajinder Singh Rana, Sudhir Sharma, Chaitanya Sharma, Ravi Thakur, Inder Dutt Lakhanpal and Davinder Bhutto-- had cross-voted in in the Rajya Sabha election in favour of BJP candidate Harsh Mahajan against Congress' senior leader Abhishek Mani Singh
Aseefa Bhutto Zardari, the youngest daughter of Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, has formally entered the political arena by submitting her nomination for the National Assembly seat that her father has vacated.
The Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader and former federal minister Abdul Qadir Baloch has suggested postponing elections in areas that are under security threat, saying that by-polls could be held in these constituencies later, Dawn News reported on Sunday.
Dismissing the exit poll projections, which put Congress in the lead in Chhattisgarh, former chief minister and BJP stalwart Raman Singh on Thursday asserted that the saffron party will defy the numbers quoted by pollsters and from the next government in the state with a clear majority.
The Nagaland Pradesh Congress Committee on Wednesday handed its party ticket to Wanglem Konyak from Tangnyu Village, Mon Nagaland representing the 43 Tapi Assembly Constituency for the bye- election scheduled on November 7. A ticket distribution program was also held at the Congress Bhavan
Konyak recently joined the Congress party. He had contested as a Naga People's Front (NPF) candidate in the 2023 State Assembly polls but lost to Late Noke Wangnao by a margin of 82 votes.
After addressing an election rally for the by-polls for the Bageshwar assembly seat, Dhami said, "We have always received support from all the voters of Bageshwar and this time also I can see that they have an inclination towards us. So the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Parvati Das will w