The Election Commission of India (ECI) successfully implemented several new electoral initiatives during bye-polls in five Assembly Constituencies across Gujarat, Kerala, Punjab, and West Bengal. Key reforms included mobile deposit facilities at polling booths, faster voter turnout reporting
Jan Suraj founder Prashant Kishor said that people wanted freedom from several years of misrule of former Chief Minister Lalu Prasad Yadav and present Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. He was campaigning for the Bihar polls in Gopalganj on Thursday.
AAP candidate for Ludhiana West assembly by-polls, Sanjeev Arora, cast his vote along with his family in the early hours of the voting, which began at 7 am on Thursday.
"The publication of the poll was carried out in violation of the guidelines issued by the Election Commission of India, which prohibits the publication or broadcasting of opinion polls in electronic media during the restricted period (48 Hours prior to the close of the Poll)," the statement
Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Tuesday expressed confidence in his Shiv Sena faction's prospects in the upcoming local body elections, emphasising the party's commitment to development and its growing support base across the state.
Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Tejashwi Yadav on Monday said people want to get rid of the JD(U)-BJP government in the upcoming Assembly polls in Bihar adding that Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is acting in an "unconscious state" recently.
Prasad said that Akhilesh Yadav reiterated the demand in the 2022 UP Legislative Assembly elections and the 2024 Lok Sabha polls. He stated that caste census was included as one of the key promises in the manifesto of the party.
The 129th Constitutional Amendment Bill for simultaneous national and assembly polls was tabled in the Lok Sabha in December last year. It was later referred to the Joint Parliamentary Committee.
The TMC MP is in Kerala to campaign for Anwar for the upcoming Nilambur by-polls, which are scheduled to take place on June 19, with results to be declared on June 23.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) national spokesperson Shahzad Poonawalla on Sunday accused the RJD of repeatedly insulting Babasaheb Ambedkar and said that the party has a "non-constitutional ideology".
"Today Priyanka Gandhi is coming to Nilambur. It's a part of her constituency. She is coming here for the campaign. We will get a good response from Priyanka Gandhi's visit. Her visit will energise the party workers," party's leader Ramesh Chennithala told ANI in Thrissur.
With a focus on Meghalaya's state election scheduled for 2028, the state unit of the party has announced a new team of office bearers, after approval by the BJP National President, J P Nadda.