Independent candidate Toyang Changkong Chang has won the Tuensang Sadar-I Assembly Constituency polls in Nagaland. He defeated ruling Naga People s Front candidate L Elam Chang by a margin of 2272 votes. ...
04:43 PM, Mar 26, 2013
The ruling Shiromani Akali Dal candidate Joginderpal Singh today wrested the Moga Assembly seat defeating his nearest Congress rival by 18,849 votes. Jain, who had recently joined SAD after defecting from Congress, registered his third successive win by defeating Congress' Vijay Kumar Sathi. ...
07:01 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Congress candidate Mandira Roy on Thursday wrested the Algapur Assembly constituency defeating her nearest AIUDF rival Mehbubul Hassan by 991 votes in the by-poll. ...
06:23 PM, Feb 28, 2013
Congress on Friday declared names of its candidates for by-polls in Mizoram's Chalfilh and Uttar Pradesh's Bhatpar constituencies for which the elections will be held on February 23. Dr H Ngurdingliana would be the party's candidate for the election to Chalfilh assembly seat while Raghvendra Singh has been approved for Bhatpar by Congress Chief Sonia Gandhi, a party release said in New Delhi. ...
12:24 AM, Feb 02, 2013
Dehradun: The Congress on Saturday received a major drubbing in the Tehri Lok Sabha bypoll in Uttarakhand. The party lost the Lok Sabha seat, recently vacated by Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna, to Bharatiya Janata Party's Mala Rajya Laxmi Shah. She defeated Vijay Bahuguna's son Saket with more than 18,000 votes, Election Commission said. Issues like corruption, price rise and economic reforms seemed to have hit the Congress badly. The results...
05:06 PM, Oct 13, 2012
Jangipur: Despite severing of ties between both the parties, the Trinamool Congress didn't put up any candidate for the Jangipur bypoll against Congress nominee Abhijit Mukherjee, son of President Pranab Mukherjee. Trinamool district president Md Ali said, "This was Pranab babu's seat. And the candidate now is his son, so as a mark of respect to the President, we didn't put up any candidate". Although BJP's Sudhanshu Biswas is also...
12:00 PM, Sep 23, 2012
Hyderabad: The Congress in the state is in dire need of a newspaper and a TV channel of its own to propagate its ideology and publicise its welfare schemes, the ministerial committee, set up to look into the partys debacle in the recent bypolls, says in its primary report. The committee, headed by roads and buildings minister Dharmana Prasada Rao and consisting of 10 members, submitted its primary report to...
02:53 PM, Jul 26, 2012
Bhopal: The ruling BJP in Madhya Pradesh is in an upbeat mood after emerging victorious at majority of the seats in the recent local bodies elections in tribal areas by virtually decimating the main Opposition Congress even in its strongholds. To add to the woes of Congress, the BJP also wrested five Assembly seats in the bypolls (held from time-to-time from 2008 till June, 2012) which is giving the party...
10:36 AM, Jul 13, 2012
Dehra Dun: Uttarakhand Chief Minister Vijay Bahuguna on Wednesday won the Sitarganj bypoll by a huge margin, beating his nearest rival, Prakash Pant of the BJP. Bahuguna defeated Pant by a margin of 39,954 votes. After the completion of the first round of counting, Bahuguna got 8,496 votes against Pant who managed to get only 999, officials said. Sitarganj by-election was held on July 8 to decide the fate of...
11:01 AM, Jul 11, 2012
Agartala: Eight months ahead of the crucial assembly polls in the state, the ruling Communist Party of India-Marxist(CPI-M) on June 15 retained the Nalchar seat by increasing its victory margin from the previous polls. "CPI(M) candidate Tapan Chandra Das, who secured 18,001 votes, defeated Congress nominee Dwijendralal Majumder, who got 13,224 votes, by a margin of 4,777 votes," returning officer Sankar Chakraborty told IANS on phone. The CPI-M's victory margin...
04:13 PM, Jun 15, 2012
Thiruvananthapuram: Dealing a further blow to CPI-M, ruling UDF in Kerala on June 15 wrested the Neyyattinkara Assembly seat from it in the hotly contested by-election. Congress candidate R Selvaraj defeated CPI(M)'s F Lawrence by a comfortable margin of 6,334 votes in the June 4 bypoll whose outcome has come as a morale-booster to the one-year old Oommen Chandy Ministry. Selvaraj had resigned as CPI-M member of the assembly in...
10:48 AM, Jun 15, 2012
Hyderabad: Latest trends in the counting of votes in the crucial Andhra Pradesh by-polls reveal Jagan Mohan Reddy's party, the YSR Congress, leading in 13 out of 18 seats. The YSR Congress is also reportedly leading in the Lok Sabha seat of Nellore. The Congress, meanwhile, is leading in 3 seats - Narsapuram, Narsanapet and Ramachandrapuram. The Telangana Rashtra Samiti (TRS) is said to be leading in Parkal, with the...
09:52 AM, Jun 15, 2012
New Delhi: The counting of votes in the crucial Andhra Pradesh by-polls began amidst tight security on Friday. Early morning trends revealed Jagan Mohan Reddy's party, the YSR Congress, leading in 15 seats. The by-polls are a crucial test for YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is currently lodged in jail on charges of corruption. The counting was taken up at 13 centres in the 12 districts in which...
07:02 AM, Jun 15, 2012
Hyderabad: All arrangements have been made for counting of votes, polled in one Lok Sabha and 18 Assembly constituencies in Andhra Pradesh where by-elections were held on June 12, on Thursday. The first result is expected from Narsapuram Assembly segment in West Godavari district where the counting process will be completed in 12 rounds, according to state Chief Electoral Officer Bhanwar Lal. "There will be 13 counting centres in all...
02:53 AM, Jun 15, 2012
Hyderabad: Over 80 per cent polling has been recorded by 6 pm in the bypolls to the Nellore Lok Sabha seat and the 18 Legislative Assembly constituencies on Tuesday, CEC VS Sampath said at a press conference. The bypolls are seen as crucial for YSR Congress Chief Jagan Mohan Reddy, who is currently in CBI custody over a disproportionate assets case, and the Congress. Jagan Reddy will is in the...
06:17 PM, Jun 12, 2012
Hyderabad: Over 4.6 million voters in Andhra Pradesh are eligible to exercise their franchise in Tuesday's by-polls to Nellore Lok Sabha and 18 legislative assembly seats in what is seen as the semi-finals before 2014 general elections. YSR Congress Party (YSRCP) led by jailed Kadapa MP Y.S. Jaganmohan Reddy appears to have an edge in majority of the constituencies in the three-cornered contest with ruling Congress and the main opposition...
07:01 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Political 'tu-tu, main-main' or the blame game is omnipresent in our land of the largest democracy. Political parties seem to almost thrive in it. But ...
04:56 PM, Jun 11, 2012
Hyderabad: Campaigning for the bypolls to 18 Assembly seats and one Lok Sabha constituency in Andhra Pradesh, marked by the war of words among the main parties over YS Jagan Mohan Reddy's arrest, ended on Sunday evening. The bypolls are being described as the semi-finals before the 2014 Assembly elections. Polling will be held on June 12 while the votes will be counted on June 15. The arrest of the...
08:21 PM, Jun 10, 2012
Warangal: Affirming BJP's strong support to the demand for statehood to Telangana, senior party leader Sushma Swaraj on Saturday said the NDA would not partner with any party opposed to the cause. Swaraj was speaking at a public meeting at Hanamkonda as part of the BJP's campaign for Parkal Assembly by-poll on June 12 in Andhra Pradesh's Telangana region. Hitting out at TRS, the Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha...
12:21 AM, Jun 10, 2012
New Delhi/Kanauj: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had decided not to contest the Kannauj Lok Sabha bypoll against UP Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav's wife Dimple, made a last minute U-turn announcing a candidate on Wednesday only to allege later that the Samajwadi Party (SP) goons prevented him from filing his nomination. On the last day of filing nominations on Wednesday, BJP president Nitin Gadkari approved the candidature of Jagdev...
08:05 PM, Jun 06, 2012
