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Odisha: Polling underway for 109 civic bodies, 6411 candidates in fray
Updated : 3 years, 12 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], March 24 (ANI): Voting for the 109 urban civic body polls for three Municipal Corporations, Bhubaneswar, Cuttack and Berhampur, besides 47 municipalities has begun in Odisha on Thursday.
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Local body polls in K'taka to be held only after reservation to Backward C
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], March 24 (ANI): The Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai announced that it has been unanimously decided in an all-party meet that local bodies polls will be held only after providing reservation for Backward Classes.
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PM Modi expresses gratitude to people of Assam after BJP's landslide victo
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], March 9 (ANI): After Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies achieved a landslide victory in the Assam municipal elections, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday expressed gratitude to the people of the state and lauded the party workers for their efforts.
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Assam local body polls: BJP leads in 64 out of 80 Municipal Corporations
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], March 9 (ANI): Bharatiya Janata Party and its allies are leading in 64 out of 80 Municipal Corporations in Assam for which votes are being counted on Wednesday.
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Assam approves replacing paper ballots with EVMs in Guwahati local body po
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Guwahati (Assam) [India], March 8 (ANI): Assam Cabinet in its meeting presided over by the state Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Monday gave nod to the proposal to replace paper ballots with Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) in the Guwahati Municipal Corporation polls.
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NCP to discuss alliance in Nagpur for local body polls: Maharashtra Home M
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Nagpur (Maharashtra) [India], March 6 (ANI): Maharashtra Home Minister Dilip Walse Patil on Sunday said that his party Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) will hold discussions on forming an alliance with other parties in Nagpur for upcoming local body polls.
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Assam CM Himanta Biswa Sarma urges people to vote in urban local body poll
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Dispur (Assam) [India], March 6 (ANI): Denoting municipal elections as an important step towards ensuring public participation in governance, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma on Sunday urged the people of the state to exercise their democratic right and cast their vote in the ongoing
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Assam: Union Min Sonowal casts vote in local body polls, says people happy
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Dibrugarh (Assam) [India], March 6 (ANI): Union Minister Sarbananda Sonowal on Sunday expressed confidence over the victory of Bharatiya Janata Party candidates in the ongoing Municipal Corporation polls in Assam as he visited a polling booth station in Dibrugarh district to cast his vote
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Uproar in Maharashtra assembly over OBC reservation in local body election
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], March 4 (ANI): Almost three months after the Supreme Court refused to accept the Maharashtra panel's interim report on quota for OBCs in local body polls, the issue was raked up by the BJP in Maharashtra Assembly on Friday.
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Unable to discharge duties as MP, WB ruling party goons restricting my mov
Updated : 4 years ago IST
New Delhi [India], February 28 (ANI): Leader of Congress party in Lok Sabha, Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury on Monday wrote a letter to Speaker Om Birla over alleged incidents of violence during municipal elections in West Bengal and said that he is "not able to discharge his responsibilities as a M
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TN urban local body polls: Youngest woman candidate in Madurai Corporation
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 23 (ANI): A 26-year-old woman, who was the youngest candidate in the fray in the Madurai Municipal Corporation (MMC), emerged victorious in the recently concluded Tamil Nadu urban local body elections.
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TN urban local body polls: DMK's transgender candidate R Ganga wins electi
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Vellore (Tamil Nadu) [India], February 23 (ANI): Transgender candidate R Ganga of the DMK won from the Vellore City Municipal Corporation (VCMC) by a margin of 15 votes in the recently concluded Tamil Nadu urban local body polls.
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