Omicron: Decision on holding Assembly polls after UP visit next week, says Election Commission chief

The Allahabad High Court has requested the Election Commission to postpone the polls because of the spread of the new variant.

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· Dec 24, 2021 · 07:41 pm

‘Who tapped the phones and why,’ asks Amit Shah after TMC releases alleged recording of BJP leaders

Shah claimed that there was nothing secretive about the conversation between Mukul Roy and Shishir Bajoria.

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· Mar 28, 2021 · 05:07 pm

PC Chacko quits Congress ahead of Kerala polls, says ‘no democracy left’ in party

The senior leader also alleged there was groupism within the party.

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· Mar 10, 2021 · 03:33 pm

Election Commission expected to announce dates for Assembly polls in 4 states, Puducherry today

Elections will be held for 294 seats in West Bengal, 234 in Tamil Nadu, 140 in Kerala, 126 in Assam and 30 in Puducherry.

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· Feb 26, 2021 · 12:37 pm

Telangana: KCR elected leader of legislature party, likely to take oath as CM on Thursday

Rao’s Telangana Rashtra Samithi won 88 seats out of 119 in the Assembly elections.

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· Dec 12, 2018 · 05:02 pm

Telangana Assembly polls: Voters complain of names missing from electoral rolls

Over 300 people staged a protest in Kamareddy district alleging that their names were missing from the lists.

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· Dec 07, 2018 · 05:21 pm

Telangana polls: BJP chief Amit Shah, Congress president Rahul Gandhi take on CM Chandrasekhar Rao

Shah accused Rao of ‘minority appeasement’ while Gandhi claimed the Telangana Rashtra Samithi was the Sangh Parivar’s ‘B team’.

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· Nov 28, 2018 · 09:20 pm

Telangana Assembly polls: Congress and TDP reach agreement on seat-sharing equation with allies

The Congress-led alliance in Telangana includes the Telugu Desam Party, Communist Party of India and the Telangana Jana Samithi.

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· Nov 09, 2018 · 12:24 pm

‘The last bastion’: Mizoram polls will be turning point in Indian politics, says Congress leader

The party said it would put an end to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s agenda of communal hatred and cultural divide.

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· Oct 10, 2018 · 07:34 pm

North-East politics: The three Assembly elections underline the marginalisation of women

Tripura and Meghalaya elected only three women each, while Nagaland failed to send its first woman to the state legislature.

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· Mar 16, 2018 · 10:30 am

Meghalaya polls: We will never try to influence the eating habits of individuals, says Conrad Sangma

The son of the late PA Sangma and leader of the NPP speaks on a possible post-poll tie-up with the BJP in the predominantly Christian Meghalaya.

Smitha Nair

· Feb 27, 2018 · 07:00 am

In Himachal Pradesh, the BJP’s advantage is offset in the absence of a chief ministerial face

The party is otherwise well-placed to dethrone the ruling Congress-led Virbhadra Singh government.

Anita Katyal

· Oct 31, 2017 · 06:30 am