Election

Wayanad (Kerala): Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi said Sunday she will contest the Lok Sabha elections from Varanasi if asked by her brother and party President Rahul Gandhi. She said this just before departing from here on a helicopter after winding up her two-day trip to...

Kendrapara: With the demise of BJD’s candidate for the Patkura Assembly constituency in 2019 polls Bed Prakash Agarwalla, cancellation of general elections there is all but official. This, however, brings reasonable uncertainty and nervousness to senior BJP leader Bijoy Mahapatra -who has not been able...

Dhanora (Chhindwara): Tear my son's clothes if he does not deliver, says Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath as he campaigns for his son Nakul who is fighting his first elections from Chhindwara. Invoking his 40-year-old association with the region, Nath says he has now...

Barbil/Champua/Joda: The BJP and the BJD are far ahead of the Congress in their campaign in Champua Assembly constituency with influential Independent leader Sanatan Mahakud not in the race. Elections to the Parliament and Assembly seats of Keonjhar district will be held in the third...

Anandapur/Hatadihi/Keonjhar: Coming down heavily on the state government, Union Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said that “an inefficient government is running the state now.” The BJP leader went on a marathon campaign in Keonjhar district, seeking votes for his party nominees in Assembly and Parliamentary seats, Saturday....

Kendrapara: Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi Saturday said minority communities are better protected under Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s NDA government than under the Congress dispensation in the past. When Narendra Modi came to power in 2014, many parties had opposed him by saying that the...

Jajpur/Jajpur Road: The political scene in the Korei Assembly segment of Jajpur Lok Sabha constituency is changing fast as the BJP and the Congress are gaining ground and the BJD is struggling to gain a foothold. Korei goes to the polls April 29. Korei was...

Mumbai: The BJP may field actor Sunny Deol from the Amritsar Lok Sabha constituency in the ongoing Lok Sabha polls. The news is doing the rounds after party chief Amit Shah met the actor Friday in Pune. However, there has been no official confirmation from...

Kolkata: By-polls to five Assembly constituencies of West Bengal will be held May 19 and the votes there will be counted along with those of all the Lok Sabha seats, the Election Commission said, late Saturday evening. Incidentally May 19, is the seventh and last...

BJP’s Puri Lok Sabha candidate Sambit Patra has gone into an aggressive campaign mode. In an interview with Manish Kumar of Orissa POST, Patra speaks about promises, use of religion in politics among other issues. Excerpts: OP: What are the issues on which you are...