Election

Nagpur: Union Minister Nitin Gadkari has declared movable and immovable assets worth Rs 25.12 crore in an affidavit filed along with his nomination papers for the Nagpur parliamentary constituency. Gadkari filed his papers for the Nagpur Lok Sabha seat Monday. Polling in the constituency will...

New Delhi: Former BJP president and Lok Sabha MP Murli Manohar Joshi has been asked by his party to not contest the coming general election, a development in line with its decision to not field many of its veterans, including its founding member and longest...

Ranchi/New Delhi: The Rashtriya Janata Dal's Jharkhand unit President Annapurna Devi Monday joined the Bharatiya Janata Party and is likely to be fielded in the Lok Sabha polls in the state. Annapurna Devi, a four-time legislator, joined the BJP in New Delhi in presence of...

Chennai: Congress leader Karti P. Chidambaram, son of former Union Finance Minister P. Chidambaram, Monday filed his nomination papers to contest from Sivaganga Lok Sabha constituency in Tamil Nadu. State party leaders rallied around Karti Chidambaram after former Union Minister E.M. Sudarsana Natchiappan, who had...

Jammu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will address a public rally in the outskirts of Jammu city March 28 in support of party candidates for the Lok Sabha elections, a senior BJP leader said Monday. Sitting BJP MPs Jugal Kishore Sharma and Jitendra Singh are seeking...

Lucknow: The BJP Monday expelled one of its senior Lucknow-based leaders after he dubbed the party's top leadership as "Gujarati thugs" and asked if the BJP has chosen a 'pradhan mantri' (prime minister) or a prachar mantri (advertisement minister). While attacking the BJP's top leadership...

Bhubaneswar: The BJP Monday named party's state vice-president Pitamber Acharya as its candidate against ruling BJD president and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, who is seeking a re-election from Hinjili assembly seat in Ganjam district, party sources said. This will be the first time that Acharya...

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi said Monday that nearly 25 crore poor people in the country will get financial assistance of Rs 72,000 per annum if the party is voted to power under the ambitious minimum income guarantee scheme which the party has named...

New Delhi: The BJP Monday alleged Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee was trying to provoke a constitutional crisis and accused the West Bengal Police of threatening customs officials who tried to check luggage of two women, including a relative of the TMC chief, at the Kolkata...

Mathura: Actor-turned-politician and sitting MP Hema Malini filed her nomination papers from Mathura, Monday, for the coming polls. Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is accompanying the film star-turned-Bharatiya Janata Party leader in Mathura. They will address a public rally here later in the day....