The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Sunday announced the list of 14 candidates who will be contesting for the 32 seats in the Sikkim Legislative Assembly. In addition to the Assembly candidates, the BJP also revealed its choice for the lone Lok Sabha seat in Sikkim.
The party has released the names of the candidates for the Lok Sabha seats of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Odisha, Rajasthan, Haryana, Maharashtra, West Bengal, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, Gujarat, Himachal Pradesh, Jharkhand, Mizoram, Sikkim, Telangana, West Bengal and Andhra Pradesh.
Lok Janshakti Party (Ram Vilas) chief Chirag Paswan on Sunday expressed strong confidence in the National Democratic Alliance's (NDA) potential to secure victory in all 40 seats in Bihar.
At a Holi Utsav programme in the national capital on Sunday, Union Minister Smriti Irani said that workers have to visit every booth and fight at the booth level to achieve the target of winning 400 seats in the parliamentary polls.
In a recent turn of results, ex-minister of state for interior Abdul Rehman Kanju, who was defeated by PTI-backed independent candidate Rana Faraz Noon, somehow stunned Noon with victory in the recount in NA-154 (Lodhran).
Opposition members alleged that the government wanted to deprive the women and minority members, elected on reserved seats and notified by the Election Commission of Pakistan, of voting in the Senate polls scheduled to be held in April.
Actor-turned-politician Hema Malini on Saturday expressed confidence of BJP-led NDA getting over 400 seats in the Lok Sabha elections, saying that the target set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be fulfilled as the people are with the ruling alliance at the Centre