Election

Thiruvananthapuram: Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor, who is seeking re-election from Kerala's Thiruvananthapuram Lok Sabha constituency, has written to the party high command complaining about the local party leaders' lack of interest in his election campaign. The two-time Congress MP is facing BJP leader and...

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat unit of the BJP has complained to the Election Commission (EC) against Congress leader Arjun Modhwadia for using ‘unparliamentary’ language and words like ‘donkey’ while criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi. In a letter to the EC headquarters in New Delhi, the state...

New Delhi: Polling is underway Thursday for the first phase of seven-phase Lok Sabha elections. Here are some interesting facts about phase one. Constituencies: 91 Lok Sabha constituencies spread across 18 states and two Union territories. Total number of polling stations: 1,70,664 In Mizoram, 15...

Rae Bareli: Congress President Rahul Gandhi Thursday made it clear that he doesn't attach much importance to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's threats of putting Congress leaders behind bars if voted to power for the next five years. Modi is ‘not invincible’ and it will become...

BHUBANESWAR:  Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) Surendra Kumar here said that as many as 57 per cent voters have exercised their franchisee till 3.30 pm in the first phase polls being conducted in the state. According to reports, there was a zero voter turnout in booth...

Kalimpong (West Bengal): The BJP will scrap Article 370 of the Constitution which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir and introduce ‘National Register for Citizens’ (NRC) across the country if voted to power again, BJP chief Amit Shah said Thursday, raking up the two...

Malkangiri: In a major goof-up, as many as 50 voters, who had come to cast their vote at booth No. 146 of the Malkangiri Assembly constituency in this district, had to return home without exercising their right after they were declared ‘dead’ in the voters’...

Malkangiri: Despite heavy security arrangements, Maoist threats led to zero voter turn-out in many booths of Chitrakonda Swabhiman area here during the first phase of general elections today. Till 3pm, as much as 60 per cent of the voting had been done in the district,...

Amethi: Union minister Smriti Irani filed Thursday her nomination papers from Amethi, pitting herself against Congress president Rahul Gandhi who has won thrice from this constituency which is regarded as Gandhi family pocket borough. Irani filed the nomination after a road show, which followed a...

Rae Bareli (UP): UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi Thursday embarked on a roadshow here before filing nomination papers for Rae Bareli Lok Sabha constituency. She also offered puja at the Congress' central office here before starting the roadshow. Sonia Gandhi, who trying to get re-elected from...