NEW DELHI: The Election Commission, while announcing polls in J&K and Haryana, said it is keeping Maharashtra for later as the state is still dealing with heavy rain and has a long festive season and streak of religious events ahead. Besides, the EC added, the high requirement of forces in J&K did not leave scope…
SRINAGAR: Political parties in J&K applauded Friday the announcement of assembly elections, calling it a big leap towards restoring democracy after six years of central rule and abrogation of special status in 2019.Former CM Omar Abdullah of the National Conference (NC) described the announcement of the three-phased polls from Sept 18 as the end of…
NEW DELHI: The stage is set for the first big electoral faceoff between the BJP-led NDA and the Congress-led INDIA bloc after the 2024 Lok Sabha elections with the Election Commission on Friday announcing dates for assembly elections in Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir.The BJP has a lot at stake, especially in Haryana, where it…
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission on Friday announced that it has decided to hold assembly elections together in only two states – Haryana and Jammu and Kashmir – and not all the four where polls are due by the end of this year. Ironically, this comes a day after Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s strong pitch…
SRINAGAR: Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Rajiv Kumar Friday said Election Commission was committed to holding assembly elections in Jammu & Kashmir at the earliest, but the suspense over poll dates continued as he underscored that the timeline would be finalised only after a final security assessment in New Delhi.Addressing a presser in Jammu on the…
NEW DELHI: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar on Thursday gave an update on preparedness for holding the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly polls stating that the election commission is working on it as political parties recognised in the state are “battling strongly” for it.“We are committed to conducting polls in Jammu and Kashmir at the earliest…
NEW DELHI: The Aam Aadmi Party on Monday announced that it will contest all 36 seats in Mumbai in the upcoming Maharashtra assembly elections. The party said that it had already begun ‘extensive’ preparations for the elections.This is a developing story Source link
NEW DELHI: Pema Khandu has been chosen to be the chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh once again.He was elected to lead the BJP Legislative Party in Arunachal Pradesh on Wednesday.Ravi Sankar Prasad and Tarun Chugh, the BJP’s central observers, were present at the meeting. According to PTI sources, Khandu will stake claim to form the…
CUTTACK: The Supreme Court Tuesday suspended the sentence of Barabati-Cuttack MLA Mohammed Moquim in the Orissa Rural Housing Development Corporation (ORHDC) loan fraud case, but did not stay his conviction, dashing his hopes of contesting the assembly elections next month.The Representation of the People Act mandates the disqualification of MLAs sentenced to a jail term…
