ELECTION COMMISSION

Bru voters to be deleted from Mizoram electoral roll

8:13 pm January 23, 2020

Aizawl: of more than 11,000 Bru community people living in relief camps in Tripura will be deleted from voters’ list of their homeland Mizoram, following an agreement that allows the tribals to permanently settle in Tripura, a senior official said on Thursday. Thousands of Bru community people have been living in relief camps in Tripura […]

Failure to cling to alliance reason for loss: Jharkhand CM

11:25 pm December 23, 2019

Ranchi: Jharkhand’s outgoing Chief Minister Raghubar Das on Monday said the BJP’s failure to cling on to the alliance with the AJSU party and the opposition parties’ ability to keep their coalition intact are the reasons for the its loss in the assembly election. He, however, said it was his defeat, and not of the […]

Arun Singh elected unopposed to Rajya Sabha from UP

7:25 pm December 5, 2019

Lucknow: BJP national general secretary Arun Singh was elected unopposed to the Rajya Sabha from Uttar Pradesh on Thursday. Singh had filed his nomination papers on December 2 for the Rajya Sabha by-election, which was necessitated following the resignation of Samajwadi Party member Tazeen Fatma, who is now the MLA from Rampur. According to the […]

Amit Shah holds colourful roadshow in Bengal's Kharagpur

Shah indicates BJP will form next govt in Haryana

8:02 pm October 24, 2019

New Delhi: BJP president Amit Shah indicated on Thursday that his party will stake claim to form the next government in Haryana after the assembly election results threw up a hung verdict. The BJP was either winning or leading in 40 seats in the elections to the 90-member state assembly, according to the latest election […]

MVA govt like unbreakable wall, says Ajit Pawar

Ajit Pawar wins Baramati with over 1.65 lakh vote margin

6:18 pm October 24, 2019

Pune: Former Maharashtra deputy chief minister and NCP leader Ajit Pawar on Thursday won from the Baramati assembly seat by a huge margin of 1,65,265 votes, according to the Election Commission. Ajit Pawar, nephew of NCP president Sharad Pawar, polled 1,95,641 votes, while his nearest rival, Gopichand Padalkar of the BJP, bagged just 30,376 votes. […]