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Goa polls: BJP releases list of 34 candidates, Parrikar's son denied ticket

CM Pramod Sawant to contest from Sanquelim and Deputy CM Manohar Ajgaonkar from Margao

UP Assembly elections: Yadavs back with Akhilesh, after fling with BJP

If there is one vote bank that the Samajwadi Party can be completely sure of in the upcoming Assembly elections, it is the Yadavs.

AAP's Punjab CM candidate Bhagwant Mann likely to contest from Dhuri

Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann will contest from Dhuri assembly constituency in the upcoming Punjab assembly elections, informed sources on Thursday.

Goa polls: Devendra Fadnavis assures good, stable govt; slams opposition

Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra and senior BJP leader Devendra Fadnavis on Thursday slammed AAP, TMC and the Congress parties ahead of Goa assembly elections.

UP polls: Bhim Army chief to contest against Yogi Adityanath in Gorakhpur

BJP has fielded UP CM from his stronghold Gorakhpur, which elected him to Lok Sabha for five straight terms till 2017

Mulayam Singh Yadav's brother-in-law Pramod Gupta set to join BJP today

A day after Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), his brother-in-law and former SP leader Pramod Gupta is set to join the BJP

UP Assembly polls: Congress releases second list of 41 candidates

The Congress on Thursday released its second list of 41 candidates, including 16 women, for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections starting February 10

Sanyukt Samaj Morcha allies with SSP; Chaduni faction to contest 10 seats

The two farmer groups -- Balbir Singh Rajewal-led political outfit Sanyukt Samaj Morcha and Gurnam Singh Chaduni's Samyukt Sangharsh Party-- have entered into an alliance for the upcoming Punjab polls

Unaccounted Rs 1.74 Cr cash, 11 kg opium seized in poll-bound Punjab

Chief Electoral Officer S. Karuna Raju said enforcement agencies have recovered unaccounted Rs 1.74 crore cash, besides 1,088 kg poppy husk, 11 kg opium and 3,370 grams heroin

UP Assembly polls: AIMIM announces third list of seven candidates

Hyderabad MP Asaduddin Owaisi's party All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) on Wednesday released the third list of candidates for the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections

BJP will bag over 300 seats in UP Assembly polls, says Sandeep Singh

Sandeep Singh, grandson of former UP CM Kalyan Singh, filed nomination from 73 Atrauli constituency and said that BJP would get over 300 seats in the upcoming Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections

Congress to take decision on Harak Rawat's rejoining, not me: Harish Rawat

Harish Rawat said that a decision on taking back Harak Singh Rawat into the party is not for him to take and the party leadership has to take a call on the matter.

Devout Hindus in UP will reject Mamata Banerjee: Suvendu Adhikari

"Her campaign in UP will do more harm than good for SP," he said

Punjab minister Brahm Mohindra bats for Channi as CM face

The local bodies minister said the Congress Party had set the tradition of declaring its chief ministerial candidate ahead of the elections in 2012 and 2017

Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections: BJP fields Mukta Raja from Aligarh

With this, the BJP has so far announced 110 candidates for the state assembly polls, where the party is contesting elections in an alliance with the Apna Dal and the Nishad Party

Miffed over denial of ticket, BJP leaders quits party, joins BSP

Senior BJP leader S K Sharma resigned from the primary membership of the party

New entrant Amit Palekar is AAP's CM face for Goa Assembly polls

Palekar joined the party a few months ago but was indirectly thrust with high profile political and activism-linked assignments

Late CDS Bipin Rawat's brother joins BJP, may contest Uttarakhand polls

Vijay Rawat, who retired as a colonel from the army, joined the BJP in the presence of Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami and Rajya Sabha MP Anil Baluni

UP polls: Mulayam Singh Yadav's daughter-in-law Aparna Yadav joins BJP

She joined the party in the presence of Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya and and its state chief Swatantra Dev Singh

Congress names five more candidates for Goa assembly elections

An official statement from the party said these candidates have been selected by the Central Election Committee of the party chaired by Sonia Gandhi