The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), having established a strong foothold in the state in the past two Lok Sabha elections, has once again nominated Union Minister and incumbent MP, Arjun Munda, to represent the Khunti constituency while the Congress has fielded Kali Charan Munda as its candida
Parasnath Rai on Friday filed his nomination as BJP candidate from Ghazipur Lok Sabha constituency at the district election office in the presence of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami.
An FIR against Rana, who is seeking a fresh term from the Amravati constituency of Maharashtra in the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, was registered at the Shadnagar police station in the state.
Repolling at four polling stations under Multai Assembly constituency of Betul Lok Sabha is currently underway as a few EVMs were damaged in a fire accident earlier.
A Static Surveillance Team (SST) is a group of police personnel and a magistrate that monitors activity at check posts in an Assembly Constituency during elections. SSTs are responsible for watching for the movement of: illicit liquor, bribes, large amounts of cash, arms and ammunition.
Incidentally, Asansol was one of the only two constituencies won by the BJP in West Bengal in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls. The other constituency, Darjeeling, was won by Ahluwalia who is now up in arms against Sinha in Asansol.
The Behrampur Lok Sabha constituency, one of the important and prestigious seats in West Bengal under the Murshidabad District, is a hot seat in this election. The TMC candidate, Yusuf Pathan, a former cricketer, is interestingly pitted against Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, a veteran MP who has he
Sharma, who has mostly been in the Rajya Sabha during his political career, contested from Kangra in Assembly elections in 1982 when he was defeated by BJP's Daulat Ram.