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Assembly Polls: All 117 seats in Punjab, 59 in UP up for voting on Sunday

Polling in Punjab will be held from 8 am to 6 pm. In Uttar Pradesh, the polling will take place between 7 am and 6 pm

UP polls: CM Yogi slams turncoats, says BJP will win 300-plus seats

Launching a scathing attack on BJP turncoats, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said the small-time leaders who ditched the saffron party are now struggling to secure seats.

Punjab polls: Cong promises financial assistance to women, 100k govt jobs

The party also promised to end the mafia raj by creating corporations for the sale of liquor and sand mining

'Still blaming first Prime Minister Nehru': Manmohan Singh attacks PM Modi

Targeting the govt on a host of issues, including the farmers' agitation, foreign policy, price rise and unemployment, Singh said Cong had never divided the country for political gains or hidden truth

UP polls: Samajwadi Party hits 'century' in first two phases, says Akhilesh

In the first two phases of polls in the state, voting was held on the 113 constituencies and 59 seats each will go to polls in the third phase on February 20 and fourth phase on February 23

Punjab polls: Modi's governance only in advertisements, says Priyanka

Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra slammed the Narendra Modi government at the Centre on Thursday, saying its governance is only visible in advertisements. She also accused the BJP and the AAP of using religion and sentiments for political gains. "Modiji's governance is only in advertisements, there is no governance in the country. Had there been governance, there would have been employment and price rise would not have been there. Had there been governance, PSUs, which generate employment, would not have been sold to his friends," the Congress general secretary told reporters at Pathankot in poll-bound Punjab, where she also addressed a rally. She said poor people, small traders and small entrepreneurs in the country are facing several difficulties and hitting out at the Centre, asked who is worrying about them. "Where is governance?" Priyanka Gandhi asked and said an amount of Rs 2,000 crore is being spent on publicity. Taking on the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Aam A

Punjab polls: Congress has always betrayed farmers, says PM Modi

Addressing a rally in Abohar ahead of the February 20 Punjab assembly polls, Modi urged voters to bring the BJP-led alliance to power in the state for its all-round development

Punjab polls: Won't let UP, Bihar, Delhi 'de bhaiye' enter state, says CM

The word "bhiyas" in reference to people from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar is generally considered offensive

UP Polls: BSP only well-wisher of people of Uttar Pradesh, says Mayawati

Addressing a public meeting in favour of the party nominees on the occasion of Ravidas Jayanti in Lucknow, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) chief paid glowing tributes to Sant Ravidas

Punjab polls: 'Time to sweep away political corruption,' says Bhagwant Mann

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Punjab chief ministerial candidate Bhagwant Mann on Tuesday campaigned for the party's candidate Naresh Kataria in Ferozepur, Punjab, ahead of Punjab Assembly Elections 2022.

'Babua', 'bua' crumbled UP's economy; Yogi brought it back on track: Shah

Speaking in Auraiya which will go to polls in the third phase of voting slated for February 20, he claimed that the SP and the BSP have been wiped out in the first two phases of polling

Rahul asks people not to 'experiment' in Punjab polls, choose Congress

Addressing a poll rally, Gandhi asserted that his party understands Punjab very well and can take the state forward

Law against triple talaq saved families of thousands in UP: PM Modi

PM Modi's remarks at the rally here come amid a row in Karnataka where schools have stopped Muslim girls from attending classes while wearing hijab

Punjab polls: Security tightens ahead of PM Modi's rally in Jalandhar

Assembly polls for electing 117 assembly seats in Punjab will be held on February 20

Uttar Pradesh election: Modi targets SP, says its family members looted UP

The PM asked people whether they would like to vote for a party that would create "mafia ganj" in every district of the state

Militants not intimidating people to vote for BJP: Manipur CM Biren Singh

Manipur CM N. Biren Singh on Sunday vehemently denied the accusation that militant outfits were intimidating the people to vote for the ruling BJP, and called it a "baseless allegation"

UP Polls: BSP announces candidates on 47 seats for seventh phase

The BSP released a list of 47 candidates on Sunday for the seventh phase of the ongoing Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. The list includes candidates for the constituencies of Azamgarh, Mau, Jaunpur, Ghazipur, Chandauli, Varanasi, Bhadohi, Mirzapur and Sonbhadra districts. The Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) has attempted to strike a fine caste balance in its list of candidates. The Mayawati-led party has fielded its state president Bhim Rajbhar against mafia-turned-politician Mukhtar Ansari, who is presently lodged in the Banda jail, from Mau. Five-time MLA Ansari won the 2017 Assembly election from Mau on a BSP ticket. The BSP had won four seats in Azamgarh district five years ago but this time, it has re-nominated only Azad Arimardan from the Lalganj reserved seat. Sukhdev Rajbhar, who won from the Didarganj constituency in Azamgarh in 2017, died last year, while Shah Alam alias Guddu Jamali, who won from Mubarakpur, quit the party subsequently. Vandana Singh, who won the 2017 polls on

Punjab Polls: Channi is losing from both constituencies, claims Kejriwal

Channi, who is Congress's chief ministerial candidate, is contesting the polls from his home turf Chamkaur Sahib in Rupnagar and Bhadaur in Barnala

Goa polls: TMC, AAP lodge complaints against each other over bribery video

On the eve of polling in Goa, the Trinamool Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party on Sunday lodged complaints against each over a sting operation video broadcast on a television channel

Goa polls: Pratapsingh Rane's daughter-in-law is BJP's Poriem candidate

It's a seat that veteran Goa politician and six-time chief minister Pratapsingh Rane represented for nearly five decades as a Congress MLA