NEYYATINKARA: Sundays may come and Sundays may go. But this Sunday was quite different for political parties and main contestants in the Neyyatinkara segment which goes for a bypoll in the weekend, as all of them thronged various parishes after the Mass to seek votes.Being the last Sunday before the bypoll on June 2, all the main candidates flocked to the parishes in the morning hours. While UDF candidate R...
08:12 AM, May 28, 2012
HYDERABAD: It was a hectic day for chief minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy and PCC president Botcha Satyanaryana in Delhi where they were engrossed in finalising candidates for the 18 Assembly and one Lok Sabha seat, in consultation with party central leadership.The two leaders, who shortlisted candidates during the last few days, discussed the probables with AICC general secretary Ghulam Nabi Azad when he was in Hyderabad on Sunday and...
11:50 AM, May 01, 2012
New Delhi: Rajani Chouhan, a BSP candidate for the Delhi municipal polls, has only Rs 40 in her hand while one of the youngest contestants Mamta Kumari is penniless. These interesting figures form part of the affidavits of candidates filing nomination for the April 15 polls for the three municipal bodies in the capital. Chouhan, the BSP candidate in Rajinder Nagar, and her husband have movable property worth Rs 11.5...
09:59 AM, Apr 01, 2012
New Delhi: It's kith and kin galore in the second list of Congress for Goa polls announced on Tuesday, days after the selection of first batch of candidates sparked off a virtual rebellion in the state unit. The list of seven candidates announced by Congress has the names of Uday D Palekar, Jennifer Monserrate, Pandurang Arjun, Madkalkar Dhaku A Madkaiker, Ritesh Ravi Naik, Alexio Reginaldo Lourenco and Valenka Alemao from...
07:43 PM, Feb 07, 2012
New Delhi: After sealing the deal with NCP for poll-bound Goa, Congress is likely to announce its candidates for the state in a day or two. The Congress is contesting 33 seats in the 40-member state Assembly while NCP will field its candidates from seven. A meeting of the Central Election Committee of the Congress was held on Tuesday to finalize candidates for the state. The committee is headed by...
02:57 AM, Feb 01, 2012
Mumbai: Maharashtra Navnirman Sena chief Raj Thackeray announced on Sunday the first list of his party's candidates for the Mumbai, Thane, Pune and Nashik municipal corporation elections in Mumbai. Addressing a press conference, Raj said the lists for Nagpur, Solapur, Amravati, Pimpri-Chinchwad, Ulhasnagar and Akola would be declared at the local level soon. He released the list of 208 candidates out of the 227 wards in Mumbai, 138 out of...
05:39 PM, Jan 29, 2012
Panaji: Prolonged coalition confabulations are delaying the announcement of ticket allocations for the March 3 assembly polls in Goa. Both the ruling Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have been huddled together in talks with the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and the Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) respectively to work out a seat-sharing arrangement for over a month now for the 40 assembly constituencies up for grabs in the polls....
06:52 PM, Jan 25, 2012
Mumbai: The BJP on Tuesday released the first list of 32 candidates, including 13 women, for the February 16 elections to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). Mumbai BJP President Raj Purohit, who released the list, said the party has decided not to give tickets to relatives of the leaders. "We have given opportunity to over 20 new faces in which 13 are women," he said. Ten sitting BJP Corporators, including Deputy...
12:23 AM, Jan 25, 2012
Chandigarh: Elections to the 117 assembly seats in Punjab are not about political parties and politicians alone. The state's officialdom has got involved this time - not just for conducting the polls but for contesting seats as well. Leading the pack is Darbara Singh Guru, who until last month was Punjab's most powerful bureaucrat, as principal secretary to Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal. He is now the official candidate of...
04:04 PM, Jan 20, 2012
New Delhi: The Congress on Tuesday announced its sixth list of candidates for 27 seats in Uttar Pradesh besides two replacements taking the total number of party nominees announced so far for the seven-phase polls to 353. The list includes former Samajwadi Party MP Rashid Masood's nephew Imran Masood (Nakur). The Congress has left as many as 45 seats to Ajit Singh's RLD, with which it has reached alliance last...
02:37 AM, Jan 18, 2012
New Delhi: Uttar Pradesh chief minister Mayawati has said her party would not be celebrating her 56th birthday as that would violate the Election Commission's model code of conduct. "The party has not organised any celebrations on my birthday this year as it could violate the model code of conduct. The party workers will be celebrating with their families," she said. The chief minister said that her biggest birthday gift...
12:22 PM, Jan 15, 2012
Chandigarh: That they were super-rich was never in doubt but the top political leadership in Punjab, especially from two families, are worth nearly Rs 250 crore ($48 million) of declared wealth. Affidavits submitted by the top politicos in Punjab while filing their nominations to various seats for the state's Jan 30 assembly polls have revealed that their riches are getting bigger and better. So if the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal...
12:39 PM, Jan 12, 2012
New Delhi: BJP on Monday night declared its second list comprising 81 candidates for Uttar Pradesh, along with candidates for 48 seats of Uttarakhand and 20 seats of Punjab for the forthcoming Assembly elections in these states. After declaring candidates for 143 seats of UP earlier, the BJP Central Election Committee declared candidates for 81 seats of the politically crucial state. Of these six are former ministers, six are former...
01:35 AM, Jan 03, 2012
New Delhi: The two-day BJP National Executive Meet has been overshadowed by a cold war between the party's two big guns - LK Advani and Narendra Modi. While who's who in the BJP trooped into the national capital for the party's National Executive Meet, Modi made his presence felt by his absence. The Gujarat Chief Minister skipped the event, even though open support for him came as one of the...
09:29 PM, Sep 30, 2011
Kolkata: In the end, star power seems to have worked for Trinamool Congress that had fielded actors, theatre personalities and professionals to launch a charm offensive in West Bengal to counter traditional Left thinkers in the Assembly election. As the day progressed it became clear that the queen of Bengali cinema in the 90s, Debashree Roy, was poised to defeat Sunderbans Development Minister Kanti Ganguly in Raidighi. Roy had been...
06:09 PM, May 13, 2011
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