Top election updates: Will act against Haridwar hate speech accused if voted to power, says Congress

The Nationalist Congress Party and the Shiv Sena will jointly fight the Goa elections.

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· 20 minutes ago

Goa elections: Lawyer Amit Palekar declared AAP’s chief ministerial candidate

Palekar had joined the party in October.

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· 3 hours ago

Punjab elections: Bhagwant Mann is AAP’s chief ministerial candidate

The party had last week urged the voters in the state to recommend a candidate.

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· Yesterday · 12:23 pm

Congress tweets video suggesting Charanjit Singh Channi is party’s CM candidate for Punjab polls

The 36-second-long video features actor Sonu Sood talking about the ideal qualities that make a chief minister followed by visuals of Channi.

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· Yesterday · 08:12 am

Punjab Assembly elections postponed to February 20, says poll panel

Political parties had sought to defer the elections because of Guru Ravidas Jayanti.

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· Jan 17, 2022 · 02:32 pm

Uttarakhand minister Harak Singh Rawat sacked from Cabinet, his BJP membership revoked for 6 years

Last month, Rawat, who held the forest and environment, labour, employment and skill development portfolios, had threatened to resign during a Cabinet meeting.

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· Jan 17, 2022 · 08:23 am

Top Assembly elections updates: Punjab BJP urges EC to postpone February 14 polls

Bharatiya Kisan Union National President Naresh Tikait has extended his support to the candidates of the Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal in UP polls.

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· Jan 16, 2022 · 07:51 pm

Assembly polls: Election Commission extends ban on physical rallies, roadshows till January 22

The poll panel allowed political parties to hold indoor meetings of up to 300 people or 50% of the venue’s capacity.

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· Jan 15, 2022 · 07:38 pm

Punjab polls: Charanjit Channi to contest from Chamkaur Sahib, Navjot Sidhu from Amritsar East

The Congress denied tickets to four sitting MLAs as it released its first list of candidates. One of them later joined the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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· Jan 15, 2022 · 06:14 pm

Top election updates: Punjab Congress MLA dropped for actor Sonu Sood’s sister joins BJP

The Congress released its first list of 86 candidates for next month’s Punjab Assembly elections.

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· Jan 15, 2022 · 01:07 pm

Uttarakhand Assembly polls cannot be deferred as EC has issued notification, says High Court

The court also directed the state to administer the Covid-19 booster dose to senior citizens at their homes if they cannot travel to vaccination centres.

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· Jan 14, 2022 · 08:06 pm

Goa polls: Congress cannot cross single-digit mark in if it contests alone, says Shiv Sena

Party MP Sanjay Raut said he had proposed that the Congress should contest 30 of the 40 Assembly seats in the state and leave 10 seats for Shiv Sena and others.

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· Jan 13, 2022 · 05:59 pm