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Ex-PM KP Oli votes in Nepal's high-stakes 2026 General Elections
Updated : 1 week, 2 days ago IST
Former PM KP Sharma Oli cast his vote in Bhaktapur as Nepal holds its 2026 General Elections. With 18.9 million voters and a 52% youth majority, the high-stakes polls will elect 275 lawmakers. Results for the 165 first-past-the-post seats are expected within 24 hours of counting.
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"Nepal needs mature leadership": NC President Gagan Thapa after casting vo
Updated : 1 week, 2 days ago IST
Nepali Congress President and Prime Ministerial candidate Gagan Thapa cast his vote in Kathmandu during the 2026 elections, calling for "mature leadership." Amidst high security and a youth-dominated electorate of 18.9 million, polling continues across 77 districts in Nepal, with results exp
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Rahul Gandhi responded positively to Revanth Reddy's request to lead INDIA
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi responded positively to Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy's request to be the Prime Ministerial candidate for the Opposition, Congress MP Mallu Ravi said.
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Nepal's rapper-turned-mayor Balen Shah begins PM campaign from Janakpur ah
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Nepal's rapper-turned-mayor Balen Shah began his election campaign from Janakpur ahead of March polls. The RSP leader promised stronger federalism and urged voters to support competence over identity. He is set to file nomination from Jhapa and challenge former PM KP Sharma Oli.
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Kathmandu Mayor Balen Shah resigns to contest March 5 polls; RSP projects
Updated : 1 month, 3 weeks ago IST
Kathmandu Mayor Balendra Shah resigned on Sunday to contest Nepal's March 5 election. He joined the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) as a senior leader and is being projected as its prime ministerial candidate. Shah is preparing to contest from Jhapa-5 against KP Sharma Oli.
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BNP braces for transition of power from Begum Zia to Taqriue Rahman ahead
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
With his return to Bangladesh just last week, the Acting Chairman of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP), Tarique Rahman, who had been in self-exile for the past 17 years, has reignited speculation about seeking the top job in the country's legislature, as he is widely seen as a prime min
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Nepal's RSP, Kathmandu Mayor strike deal, Balen to be presented as next Pr
Updated : 2 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Nepal's Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP) and the Mayor of Kathmandu Metropolitan, Balendra Shah, struck a deal on Sunday morning, setting him to be the party's parliamentary leader and its prime ministerial candidate for the national elections set to take place in March next year.
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INDIA bloc getting 295 plus seats, PM face to be decided on June 4: Delhi
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Saturday said that the opposition's Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA) bloc will register victory on more than 295 seats in the Lok Sabha polls adding that Prime Ministerial candidate from the alliance will be decided on June 4
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PM face to be decided as per situation, says Sitaram Yechury after attendi
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary Sitaram Yechury said that the prime ministerial candidate of the INDIA bloc will be decided "as per the situation," while CPI General Secretary D Raja predicted that the results of the Lok Sabha elections are going to be "one-sided". Read More
"Who is INDIA bloc's PM candidate?" questions Karnataka BJP President BY V
Updated : 1 year, 11 months ago IST
Karnataka Bharatiya Janata Party President BY Vijayendra on Friday questioned the opposition alliance of their prime ministerial candidate and asserted that the prime ministerial candidate of the BJP is Narendra Modi.
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Proposal to make Kharge INDIA bloc leader countered by "own friends": HD D
Updated : 2 years, 1 month ago IST
Former Prime Minister and Janata Dal (Secular) supremo HD Deve Gowda on Thursday said that when Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge was named as the Prime Ministerial candidate of the INDIA bloc, then he was countered by 'own friends'.
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'Wanted to become prime ministerial candidate but offered "jhunjhuna"...':
Updated : 2 years, 2 months ago IST
Bharatiya Janata Party MP Sushil Kumar Modi took a jibe at Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, saying that he left the NDA thinking that the INDIA bloc would make him the prime ministerial candidate but he has been offered a "jhunjhuna" of a convenor which is actually a "Munshi-type role" in
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