According to Shiv Sena Member of Parliament Naresh Mhaske, 1,548 women have applied for party tickets, reflecting strong enthusiasm among women to contest local body elections under the party banner. Interviews of aspirants from the six municipal corporations in Thane district are schedul
Jan Suraaj leader Pushpa Singh expressed her disappointment on Thursday after being denied a party ticket, criticising the candidate selection process and questioning the fairness of nominations, saying "Justice has not been done."
As Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) denies party tickets to three of its sitting MLAs in the first candidate list for upcoming assembly elections, Delhi BJP President Virendraa Sachdeva on Thursday termed the move a "lack of confidence."
With weeks to go for the Maharashtra assembly polls, Mumbai BJP president Ashish Shelar on Sunday emphasised that those who serve the public and fight against corruption get the party ticket.
Afzal Ansari was convicted by the Special Court MP/MLA of Ghazipur in a Gangster Act case and awarded four years in jail. If the Allahabad High Court upholds the lower court's decision, Ansari will lose his membership of the Parliament. He won the Ghazipur seat on a Samajwadi Party ticket i
Vishal Patil, the grandson of ex-Maharashtra chief minister late Vasantdada Patil, was earlier eyeing a party ticket from the Sangli Lok Sabha constituency, but the Shiv Sena (UBT), a Congress' ally in the INDIA bloc, announced its candidate from the seat.
The Election Commission of India (ECI) on Wednesday issued a show cause notice to Congress leader Supriya Shrinate for her derogatory remarks against Kangana Ranaut who is contesting from Himachal Pradesh's Mandi Lok Sabha seat on Bharatiya Janata Party ticket.
The BJP which released its 5th list of candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, fielded Jindal from Haryana's Kurukshetra constituency, a parliamentary seat already represented by the leader from 2004-2014.
"The Board unanimously resolved to award the party ticket to Dr. Chumben Murry for the elections to the lone parliamentary seat of Nagaland," the board stated.
Taking a dig at the BJP over its delay in naming its Lok Sabha candidates in the state, Samajwadi Party chief and former chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav, on Sunday claimed nobody wants to fight a losing battle by accepting a ruling party ticket.
It was previously reported that internal conflicts within the PML-N leadership arose around the distribution of party tickets, namely in Punjab, in the run-up to the general elections on February 8.