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UP polls: Telangana BJP MLA T Raja Singh barred from campaigning for 72 ho
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 20 (ANI): The Election Commission on Saturday disallowed BJP leader and Telangana MLA T Raja Singh for threatening people to vote for his party in Uttar Pradesh and barred him from campaigning for 72 hours.
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Punjab Assembly elections: Over 2.14 crore voters to decide fate of 1304 c
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], February 20 (ANI): After weeks of high voltage poll campaigning for Punjab Assembly elections, over 2.14 crore voters of the state will decide the fate of 1304 candidates in the fray from 117 constituencies on Sunday.
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PIL in SC seeks steps to make political parties accountable for manifesto
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 19 (ANI): A Public Interest Litigation (PIL) has been moved in the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre and Election Commission of India (ECI) to take steps to regulate political parties and make them accountable for essential rational manifesto promises.
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Punjab Polls: Complaint against Channi for violating model code of conduct
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Punjab [India], February 19 (ANI): Cases were filed against Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi and Congress candidate Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu for allegedly holding a door-to-door campaign in the Mansa Assembly constituency after the end of the campaigning Friday evening.
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TN local body polls: People know who to vote for, says Udhayanidhi Stalin
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 19 (ANI): Tamil Nadu MLA and son of Chief Minister MK Stalin, Udhayanidhi Stalin on Saturday casts his vote for the Urban Local Body Elections in the state at a polling booth in Chennai and said people of the State are aware who to vote for.
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Local body polls: Chennai votes after a hiatus of 11 years
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 19 (ANI): The Urban Local Body election in Tamil Nadu is underway on Saturday for 12,607 posts in 21 corporations, 138 municipalities, and 490 town panchayats but voting in Chennai is being held after a gap of 11 years.
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Odisha records approximately 71 pc polling in second phase of panchayat el
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], February 19 (ANI): Odisha recorded approximately 71 per cent polling in the second phase of the panchayat election.
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Samajwadi Party urges EC to deploy additional security forces at 'sensitiv
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 18 (ANI): Amid the ongoing Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi Parrty on Friday wrote to the Election Commission of India and demanded the deployment of the Paramilitary Forces on "extremely sensitive" polling booths of Jaunpur of Malhani Asse
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Akhilesh Yadav perturbed after SP Singh Baghel fielded against him, says U
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 17 (ANI): Union Minister Piyush Goyal said that the Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is perturbed that the Minister of State for Law and Justice SP Singh Baghel is being fielded against him in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.
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Over 70 pc voter turnout recorded in first phase of Odisha Panchayat polls
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], February 16 (ANI): Over 70 per cent voter turnout was recorded in the first phase of the five-phase Odisha Panchayat poll that concluded on Wednesday, informed the State Election Commission.
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BJP lodges complaint with EC over attack on party leader SP Singh Baghel
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) [India], February 16 (ANI): Union Minister Anurag Thakur and other Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders on Wednesday filed a complaint with Election Commission over an alleged attack against Union Minister SP Singh Baghel.
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Pakistan: Opposition party JUI-F protests 'rigging' in Dera Ismail Khan re
Updated : 4 years, 2 months ago IST
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa [Pakistan], February 16 (ANI): The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) activists on Tuesday held a protest demonstration against alleged rigging during the re-polling for the seat of Dera Ismail Khan city mayor in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and demanded the elect
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