After Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) electoral success in the recently held Tripura Assembly polls, Chief Minister-Designate Manik Saha on Monday called on Governor Satyadeo Narain Arya to stake claim to form the government in the northeastern state.
According to the Meghalaya Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) FR Kharkongor, three-tier security arrangements have been made with Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) guarding the innermost layer and State Armed police will keep vigil over the second and third layers.
Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin on Wednesday requested all political parties opposed to the BJP to understand simple electoral arithmetic logic and stand united, emphasising that thoughts about a third front are pointless.
Tinubu, 70, known as a kingmaker in Nigerian politics, received 36 per cent of more than 24 million votes cast, according to results announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
Polling personnel to 3419 polling stations across 59 Assembly Constituencies for Meghalaya assembly elections have been dispatched to their respective polling stations along with EVMs and other related materials on Sunday.
According to locals, most people in these areas have a fondness for English and name themselves or their kin after fancy English words. And, as is evidenced by some of the names on the electoral rolls, they couldn't care less about the meaning of the English words they were named after.
Ahead of Monday's Assembly elections, as many as 900 polling stations across the state have been identified as vulnerable and critical, the state's chief electoral officer (CEO) said on Saturday.
The polls this year features multiple players in the form of the ruling National People's Party (NPP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress, with the ruling Trinamool Congress in West Bengal also entering the fray in the hope of cutting its electoral teeth into this Northeast st
Acknowledging the departure from the party's official stand in the matter while speaking to ANI on Saturday, Karti, son of former Union minister P Chaidambaram, said, "As far as polling through EVMs is concerned, I know my party holds a different view on the subject. I can't speak for the pa
Amid a show of power, both the leaders, Subash Chandra Nembwang and Ram Chandra Poudel reached the Office of the Electoral Officer set inside the Federal parliament on Saturday to file their candidacy.