Less than 24 hours before the sixth phase of polls, West Bengal police seized Rs 24 lakh cash from the car of a BJP functionary in West Midnapore on Friday. Prasanta Bera, who had contested 2021 assembly polls from Daspur in West Midnapore, was detained after he failed to provide any valid document for carrying…
NEW DELHI: A day before all 7 Lok Sabha seats of Delhi go to the polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Friday levelled serious allegations against Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena, stating that he has ordered police to slow down voting in areas that have a large number of INDIA bloc supporters. “Information has been…
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Friday refused to entertain plea by an NGO to direct the Election Commission to upload voter turnout data for each polling station on its website during the ongoing Lok Sabha elections. The vacation bench, comprising Justices Dipankar Datta and Satish Chandra Sharma, stated that it would be challenging for…
NEW DELHI: The fifth phase of Lok Sabha elections for 49 seats on Monday saw 62.2% turnout (according to data available at 10.30 pm on Tuesday), which may rise marginally when final data is released by EC. In 2019, the polling in this phase was 62.5%.According to data updated by EC on its voter turnout…
NEW DELHI: Clash broke out during actor-turned-BJP leader Mithun Chakraborty‘s roadshow in Bengal’s Midnapore after stones were hurled by some unknown persons. Chakraborty was campaigning for Agnimitra Paul, the BJP candidate for the Midnapore Lok Sabha seat. Both Chakraborty and Paul emerged unharmed in the incident.Some people started hurling stones and bottles at the convoy…
VARANASI: PM Modi on Monday evening kicked off the campaign for the seventh and final phase of Lok Sabha election by holding a 5-km-long roadshow in his parliamentary constituency here, on the eve of filing his nomination on Tuesday for a third term.Modi’s roadshow took the same route on which he had held a grand…
BEHRAMPORE: When Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury started winning Behrampore Lok Sabha in 1999, Yusuf Pathan was a 17-year-old. Pathan, the former India cricketer who was part of two World Cup winning squads made his cricket debut two years later. And yet, to borrow a metaphor from cricket, the election in Behrampore in Murshidabad is poised to…
NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who cast his vote from Ahmedabad constituency on Tuesday, encouraged citizens to participate in the third phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections by voting in record numbers. PM Modi said that their active involvement would enhance the vibrancy of the electoral process. The PM shared this message on…
NEW DELHI: The Delhi chief electoral officer’s office confirmed the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) Lok Sabha elections campaign song after the party made necessary modifications, as confirmed by officials on Friday. AAP MLA Dilip Pandey, the songwriter and vocalist verified that the song has been approved.In a post in Hindi on X, Pandey said, “Truth…
RAE BARELI: Weeks of ‘will-he-won’t-he’ culminated Friday in Congress naming Rahul Gandhi as the candidate in the family bastion of Rae Bareli on the final day for nominations, setting the stage for the Gandhis and an entourage of loyalists to air-dash to the UP constituency just in time for the Wayanad MP to file his…
