Authorities in the Poonch sector of Jammu and Kashmir, which lies close to the Line of Control (LoC), have prepared a contingency plan to shift polling officials and voters in the event cross-border firing on the polling day.
Superstar Shah Rukh Khan came forward on Saturday to encourage people to immerse themselves in the celebration of democracy and get their fingers inked amid the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.
The Centre's much-debated Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), by which members of religious minorities in Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan, who settled in the country as refugees after fleeing alleged persecution in their homelands, are to be given permanent Indian residency; could well
"I am not thinking about national issues but local. I have an old relationship with Gurgaon. Those who are coming from Delhi don't know that this place is the most backward in the interiors...My fight is not with any person or party but with problems, I am contesting against apathy," Babb
Amid the political free-for-all between the ruling AAP and the BJP over the alleged assault on Rajya Sabha MP and former DCW chairperson Swati Maliwal; the accused former personal secretary of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Bibhav Kumar, was arrested on Friday, Delhi Police confirmed.
Apart from opting for new methods, political parties still prefer the performance of folk artists as the most effective tool to attract people to gatherings and rallies.
BJP candidate from Mumbai North Piyush Goyal on Saturday said that the citizens of the country are standing with the all-round development of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to see India becoming a "global power".
Expressing 'shock' over the alleged assault on AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal allegedly by Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's former aide Bibhav Kumar, Union Minister Hardeep Puri pointed to the timing of the incident, which took place just days after the former came out of Tihar jail on
The development comes at a time when Maliwal, who is the Aam Aadmi Party's Rajya Sabha MP alleged on Friday that the CCTV cameras installed at Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal's residence were being tampered with.
The Trinamool which has not shied away from using star power in its election campaigns, introduced Rachana Banerjee as its party member as the "other Didi" at a Brigade rally in March. The actor is popularly known for hosting the popular Bengali television reality show, "Didi No. 1".