Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Congress Rajya Sabha candidate from Assam, has filed a fresh affidavit correcting his age to 80 prior to scrutiny of the nominations on Tuesday.
The Prime Minister submitted the fresh affidavit two days ago correcting his age to 80 from 82 as given earlier in his nomination papers for the May 30 election, Assembly sources said today.
According to the rules, contestants had time till Monday to submit affidavits for making corrections in their nomination papers, they said.
The Prime Minister had filed his nomination papers on May 15 at the State Assembly before the Assembly Principal Secretary GP Das, who is also the Returning Officer for the Rajya Sabha elections. May 23 is the last date of withdrawal of candidatures....
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02:45 PM, May 21, 2013
Guwahati: Claiming that Assam was like home to him, Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh on Wednesday said he would endeavour to work for the development of the state that he has been representing in the Rajya Sabha since 1991. Briefly addressing the Congress Legislature Party (CLP) in the Assembly premises here, Singh said Assam was like home to him and expressed his gratitude to the MLAs here for giving him...
05:29 PM, May 15, 2013
Guwahati: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will arrive in Guwahati on Wednesday to file his nomination papers for seeking re-election to the Rajya Sabha for the fifth successive time from the state. The Prime Minister will be accompanied by Congress General Secretary Digvijaya Singh. The elections are scheduled to be held on May 30. Manmohan Singh present term ends on June 14. The Prime Minister, who has held this seat from...
06:05 AM, May 15, 2013
New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) conducted raids at 39 places across Jharkhand and some places in Kolkata. The premises of over 12 MLAs from different parties were raided. The raids were conducted in connection with the recovery of over Rs 2 crore during the Rajya Sabha elections. ...
08:56 AM, May 18, 2012
New Delhi: In a major blow to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) its leader SS Ahluwalia lost the Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand. Ahluwalia, who was a former Rajya Sabha deputy leader of opposition, needed 23 votes but could secure only 20 in the polls held on Thursday. Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) and Congress candidates won the Rajya Sabha polls winning 23 and 25 votes respectively. There were two vacancies...
05:44 PM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: Elections to the Rajya Sabha will be held in Jharkhand on Thursday. The elections will decide the fate of three candidates including the BJP's SS Ahluwalia. The BJP and JMM are still at odds over his nomination. The Election Commission (EC) had countermanded the elections following allegations of horse trading. The Supreme Court on Wednesday had refused to interfere in the Rajya Sabha election in Jharkhand. The apex...
08:48 AM, May 03, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has declared SS Ahluwalia as its candidate for the Rajya Sabha elections from Jharkhand. The decision was taken after several rounds of meetings between senior party leaders. Ahluwalia was earlier not being nominated as businessman Anshuman Mishra was being supported by BJP. Mishra had levelled serious allegations against senior party leaders, but had later offered unconditional apology. ...
01:30 PM, Apr 19, 2012
Ranchi: The BJP state unit's Committee for Elections will meet on Wednesday to ponder over whether to field a candidate for the May 3 Rajya Sabha elections from Jharkhand. "The party's Committee for Elections will meet tomorrow to discuss both on Rajya Sabha elections and Hatia assembly bypoll," senior party leader and a member of the committee, Raghuvar Das said. The Hatia assembly constituency fell vacant after the death of...
12:54 AM, Apr 11, 2012
New Delhi: The biennial election to the two Rajya Sabha seats from Jharkhand, which was countermanded over allegations of use of money-power and horse-trading, will now be held afresh on May 3, the Election Commission announced on Tuesday. The three-member Commission decided the fresh dates in its meeting held on Tuesday and a notification for the same would be issued on April 16, starting the process for filing of nominations....
04:44 PM, Apr 10, 2012
Ranchi: Jharkhand High Court on Thursday ordered a CBI probe into alleged cash dealings in Rajya Sabha elections. One person had filed a petition in the High Court seeking CBI probe. The Jharkhand High Court on Thursday directed the Election Commission (EC) to order an inquiry by a specialised agency like the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into circumstances leading to the countermanding of the Rajya Sabha elections in the...
03:08 PM, Apr 05, 2012
Jamshedpur: Defending itself for voting in favour of a candidate of its coalition partner JMM in the recent Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand, the BJP on Sunday said they want an enquiry into the election of Independent candidates to the Upper House from the state. "We will welcome a comprehensive enquiry from any agency including CBI not only into the recent development in the Rajya Sabha poll but also in...
05:10 PM, Apr 01, 2012
New Delhi: Chief Election Commisssioner SY Quraishi has said that he would like to conduct the scrapped Jharkhand Rajya Sabha elections before the Presidential polls. The Jharkhand Rajya Sabha elections were cancelled by the election Commission. The Election Commission on Friday countermanded the Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand in the wake of allegations of horse trading and seizure of over Rs 2 crore in cash, saying the election process there...
03:40 PM, Mar 31, 2012
Ranchi: Congress and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) have sought review of the Election Commission's move to recommend to President Pratibha Patil for cancellation of two Rajya Sabha polls held on Friday. Amid reports of horse trading in the Rajya Sabha (RS) polls, the Election Commission (EC) on Friday stopped the counting of votes for two seats from Jharkhand after money was seized from a car belonging to an independent candidate's...
01:15 PM, Mar 31, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission (EC) has cancelled the Jharkhand Rajya Sabha election. The panel on Friday countermanded the polls after rampant horsetrading and recovery of crores of rupees. The income tax department seized over Rs 2 crore from a candidate's car and raided three candidates. "The Commission is satisfied that the current election process for Rajya Sabha election from Jharkhand has been seriously vitiated and cannot be permitted to...
11:38 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Congress' candidate from Uttarakhand Mahendra Singh Mahra defeated BJP's Anil Goyal by eight votes in the Rajya Sabha polls on Friday. While, Mehra who is a loyalist of union minister Harish Rawat got 39 votes, Goyal got 31 votes. Chief Electoral officer Radha Raturi also said that except the nominated member R V Gardner, all the elected 70 MLAs, including Speaker Govind Singh Kunjwal, cast their ballots in...
06:05 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission has stopped counting of votes in the Rajya Sabha polls in Jharkhand without a written clearance from the poll panel. The directive came after allegations of horsetrading by Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) chief Babulal Marandi. BJP leader Prakash Javadekar said that the party MLAs voted for JMM candidate Sanjeev Kumar in Jharkhand Rajya Sabha polls on the direction of the party leadership. Earlier, the BJP...
03:29 PM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Income Tax Department seized nearly Rs 2.25 crore from a car from the outskirts of Ranchi on Friday. The car reportedly belongs to a relative of Independent Rajya Sabha candidate, RK Agarwal. "The car carrying over Rs two crore was seized near Namkum. The owner of the car is said to be from a sponge iron factory in Jamshedpur," Senior Superintendent of Police Saket Kumar Singh said....
10:46 AM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: Jharkhand is all set to conduct its Rajya Sabha polls on Friday amid allegations of horsetrading by Jharkhand Vikas Morcha (Prajatantrik) chief Babulal Marandi. The election comes at a time when the rift within the the ruling BJP-JMM-Ajsu alliance is said to be widening. The parties are seemingly divided over whose nominee to back. Marandi, who is a Lok Sabha MP from Kodarma in Jharkhand, had written a...
07:28 AM, Mar 30, 2012
New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs in Jharkhand have decided to abstain from voting in the Rajya Sabha elections. The MLAs wont vote for Anshuman Mishra. According to BJP leader Ananth Kumar, no MLA from the party will participate in the voting as "there is rampant horse trading". Earlier on Wednesday, Mishra dismissed reports of him giving up his nomination for Rajya Sabha following objection by senior BJP...
05:03 PM, Mar 21, 2012
Hyderabad: Telugu megastar Chiranjeevi and former Union Minister Renuka Choudary on Monday filed their nominations on behalf of the ruling Congress for the biennial elections to Rajya Sabha from Andhra Pradesh. Former state minister Palvai Govardhan Reddy and former journalist Rapolu Ananda Bhaskar too filed their papers as Congress nominees on the last day of the nomination process. Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy, PCC President Botsa Satyanarayana and a...
06:43 PM, Mar 19, 2012
