New Delhi: Campaigning for the Assembly elections end on Thursday in Uttar Pradesh and Goa with just 48 hours to go before the final phase of polls in UP and the first and only phase of polls in Goa. In the last phase of polls in UP on Saturday, 18,227,281 voters will decide the fate of 962 candidates in the 60 seats. Out of the 962 candidates, 100 are women...
06:18 PM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Thursday is the last day of campaigning in Uttar Pradesh and Goa with just 48 hours to go before both states go to polls. This will be Goa's first and only phase, while it will be Uttar Pradesh's seventh and final phase of the assembly elections. But Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister and BSP supremo Mayawati won't be canvassing for support on Thursday. Mayawati addressed her last election meetings...
08:38 AM, Mar 01, 2012
New Delhi: Ahead of elections in Uttar Pradesh starting February 8, the Election Commission has relaxed the conditions for use of aircraft in campaigning and its expenditure monitoring. As per the relaxed terms for use of aircraft for campaigning, political parties or candidates using the aircraft would now have to inform the District Electoral Officers (DEO) concerned 24 hours ahead of the proposed visit. Earlier the parties/candidates had to inform...
01:03 AM, Feb 07, 2012
Lucknow: The T N Seshan ghost seems to be haunting Uttar Pradesh after a lull of many years. Usually poll time sets the entire state abuzz with colourful election activity but campaigning is turning out to be a rather quiet affair this time. The official machinery is all geared up to enable the state's 12 crore voters to elect 403 legislators for a giant sized assembly, but there is unusual...
10:33 AM, Jan 30, 2012
Lucknow: The weather is proving to be the biggest adversary of the political parties in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh. The plans of the various parties to cover as many areas as possible in a day's campaign are being spoiled by the chilly winter and fog. Most of the elections in UP have been during the summers. That makes it easier for senior party leaders to campaign in most of the constituencies...
04:00 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: Senior BJP leader LK Advani is all set to hit the campaign trail in Bihar. Advani is scheduled to address rallies in Motihari, Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga on Tuesday, the last date of campaigning for the first leg of the six-phase state Assembly elections. Meanwhile, the Janta Dal United is leaving nothing to chance - the party is going all out to woo the minority and the upper caste ...
11:36 AM, Oct 19, 2010
Patna: Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) chief Lalu Prasad Yadav kicked off his election campaign from the Kosi belt on Wednesday, which includes areas like Madhepura and Saharsa. The polling for the first phase begins on October 24. “We are starting our campaigning today. Some election meetings have also been planned,” Lalu said. On Tuesday, Lalu hit back at the NDA for castigating his decision to field his wife Rabri Devi...
04:39 PM, Oct 06, 2010
New Delhi: Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar is sticking to his stand of not letting Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi campaign for the BJP-JDU alliance for next month's assembly elections. Speaking in Delhi, Nitish Kumar said the two parties will be fighting the election together but have decided to come out with separate manifestos. The alliance hit an all-time low in June when the JDU said it wouldn't let BJP's...
01:01 PM, Sep 16, 2010
Indore: Before Bollywood Star Salman Khan kicked off campaigning to drum up support for the Congress candidate for mayor for civic polls, police on Wednesday lathicharged his supporters who turned unruly to get a glimpse of the actor at his birthplace. "No one was injured in the lathicharge," police said. Before Salman came out from the hotel where he was staying, hundreds of his fans had gathered near the open...
01:25 AM, Dec 04, 2009
More than 6,500 candidates made last-minute promises to woo voters. ...
02:23 AM, Oct 12, 2009
The campaigning for 2009 General Elections ended on Monday. ...
03:21 AM, May 12, 2009
Here's a look at who's where, trying to woo whom before Phase V polling. The last phase polling takes place on May 13. ...
11:27 AM, May 09, 2009
Politicians like Priya Dutt covered nearly 12-15 km a day to garner support. ...
01:55 AM, Apr 29, 2009
Rahul, Pawar, Paswan and Sushma are some of the heavyweights in the fray. ...
07:36 PM, Apr 21, 2009
Orissa is experiencing a searing heat wave with temperatures around 45 degrees. ...
03:04 PM, Apr 21, 2009
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