Congress president Mallikarjun Khrage, former party chief Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra are on the list of 40 star campaigners released by the party for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh.
The scheduled election of the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Delhi has been postponed as the nomination of the Presiding Officer, which is mandatory, has not taken place, the MCD Secretary informed in an official notice.
Ahead of the second phase of the polling, District Magistrate Dakshin Dinajpur district of West Bengal, Bijin Krishna said that 280 polling stations have been identified as critical in the Balurghat city.
In the second phase of elections, the contest for the Nagaon seat of Assam is considered to be at high stakes. Voting is to be held here on Friday. Actually, it is being called a triangular contest here. The equations are also such that it cannot be said which way the camel will sit. Seni
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a scathing attack on the Congress and INDIA bloc, accusing them of systematic plunder, asserting, "Looting is their modus operandi--both in the present and the afterlife ('Zindagi ke Saath bhi, Zindagi ke Baad bhi')."
While Thakur Prasad Yadav has been fielded from Rae Bareli, Kamar Hayat Ansari will be contesting from Ambedkar Nagar and Brijesh Kumar Sonker will fight from Bahraich, a Scheduled Caste reserved constituency.
As the voting for second phase of the Lok Sabha elections gets underway tomorrow, the 'Jhalawar-Baran' constituency will also go to polls, with BJP MP Dushyant Singh trying to continue his family legacy as well as his party's dominance on the seat, while facing an old rival.
In 2019, Dhotre defeated Ambedkar by a margin of 2,75,596 votes. While Dhotre got 49.5 per cent of votes, Ambedkar got 24.9 per cent. Congress' Hidayatullah Patel came third winning 22.7 per of the votes.
The Chief Electoral Officer of Haryana Anurag Aggarwal has taken a unique initiative of sending invitation letters to voters urging them to cast their vote to ensure maximum voting in the state which is going to polls in the sixth phase on May 25, authorities said on Thursday.
Six parliamentary seats in the state - Tikamgarh (SC), Damoh, Khajuraho, Satna, Rewa and Hoshangabad- will go to the polls in the second phase of voting on April 26 from 7 am to 6pm.