CNN-IBN's poll has predicted that the Congress will win between 29-35 seats in the 68 member Assembly. ...
10:11 AM, Dec 18, 2012
BJP Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal is seeking to defy anti-incumbency and history. Since 1977, no party has ever been voted back to power in Himachal Pradesh. But the race for the state which went to polls on November 4 is too close to call, as CNN-IBN-The Week post poll found. Both Congress and the BJP are projected to get 29 to 35 seats in the 68 member Assembly. Others...
09:39 AM, Dec 18, 2012
The BJP under Modi's leadership is set to trounce the Congress and give the Gujarat CM a hat-trick of electoral victories. ...
11:34 PM, Dec 17, 2012
The post-poll survey conducted in Himachal Pradesh by CSDS for CNN-IBN and The Week a few days after the state went to elections shows that the two main parties - ruling BJP and Congress - are involved in a dead heat, with no clarity on who will form the next government in the state. The survey conducted from November 7 to 14 in 32 Assembly constituencies of the state reveals...
08:38 PM, Dec 17, 2012
New Delhi: The Election Commission has issued 73 notices to candidates in the Himachal Pradesh assembly polls for paid news of which 19 have already been confirmed by the committee of the poll body. "We had 73 notices (for paid news) issued this time in the state and of these, 19 cases have been confirmed as paid news by our committee," Election Commission Director General Akshay Raut said at a...
04:04 PM, Nov 05, 2012
Shimla/New Delhi: Himachal Pradesh on Sunday registered a record high polling of around 75 per cent in elections for 68 assembly constituencies, Election Commission officials said. The state's Chief Electoral Officer, Narinder Chauhan, said in Shimla, "The voter turnout was approximately 75 per cent." In New Delhi, Deputy Election Commissioner Alok Shukla said that the final figure for turnout was likely to go up as voting in about 200 booths...
07:41 AM, Nov 05, 2012
Shimla: Over 68 per cent polling was recorded till 5 pm on Sunday in the election to the 68-member Assembly in hill state of Himachal Pradesh. Polling had begun on a dull note apparently due to cold weather conditions. The minimum temperature was hovering around freezing point in Chopal in Shimla district and in Kaza area. "Aleast seven EVMs were replaced due to malfunctioning, four of them in Kullu and...
02:20 PM, Nov 04, 2012
Shimla: Twenty seven per cent voting has been recorded till 11 am in the 2012 Assembly elections in Himachal Pradesh on Sunday. The polling for the 68 seats of Himachal Pradesh Assembly began amid tight security on Sunday. Electors across the state were seen reaching polling stations even before voting started at 8 am. Poll officials said there has been no report of any delay in starting the poll process....
11:40 AM, Nov 04, 2012
New Delhi: The Himachal Pradesh 2012 Assembly elections began at 8 am on Sunday. A total of 459 candidates are in the fray for the 68-member Assembly. The election is important as it's the first after the recent reforms unleashed by the Centre, that included the cap on subsidised LPG cylinders and 51 per cent FDI in retail. Political heavyweights, incumbent CM Prem Kumar Dhumal of the Bharatiya Janata Party...
08:11 AM, Nov 04, 2012
A look at what the young people in the state feel about various issues concerning them ahead of the Assembly elections. ...
11:21 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: Himachal Pradesh votes for the 2012 Assembly elections on Sunday, and this time as well, it is a direct and close contest between the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Both the parties have not left any stone unturned for the contest with the biggest names from both hitting the campaign trail. While Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi campaigned for the Congress in...
08:00 PM, Nov 03, 2012
Shimla: Battlelines have been drawn for Sunday’s poll for the 68-member Himachal Assembly where political heavyweights Prem Kumar Dhumal and Virbhadra Singh are jostling for attention of voters for whom the issue of price rise and corruption seems to have surpassed the anti-incumbency factor. The Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress are contesting all 68 seats while the Bahujan Samaj Party has fielded 66 candidates followed by the Himachal Lokhit...
02:57 PM, Nov 03, 2012
New Delhi: With an annual turnover of around 3000 crore, apples constitute an important part of Himachal Pradesh's economy, which makes FDI in multibrand retail an important issue among the state's apple-growers. The state's apple belt straddles several districts. No wonder then, that most pre-poll sops are announced keeping this constituency of apple-growers in mind. While the BJP government in the state has said no to FDI, the farmers remain...
08:39 AM, Nov 03, 2012
Hamirpur: Elections in the hill state of Himachal Pradesh will be held on Sunday, November 4. This time nearly 50 per cent of voters are below the age of 40. CNN-IBN found out that lack of jobs is a primary concern among the youth. Bharti, a student, studies at the prestigious Himachal Pradesh University in Shimla. She feels students from Himachal find it hard to compete for better jobs outside...
09:21 AM, Nov 02, 2012
Shimla: Scams under the United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government have tarnished the image of the country globally and eroded the democratic system, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader L K Advani alleged on Thursday. Winding up the campaign at Majra in Sirmaur district, just 24 hours before the closing of campaigning for Himachal Pradesh Assembly polls, Advani slammed the UPA government saying surfacing of new scams every day has "tarnished the...
10:30 PM, Nov 01, 2012
Shimla: Himachal Pradesh will go for polls on Sunday, November 4. One of the key election issues this time has been land. The state is seeing a construction boom and land prices are soaring. Vinod Sultanpuri, contesting for the Congress from Kasauli, has alleged that illegal benami land deals are rampant. "I live in Sultanpur. In the panchayats there, 18 buildings were found benami. I don't know when, who are...
09:55 AM, Nov 01, 2012
Shimla: Accusing the air traffic control (ATC) of being partial, Himachal Pradesh's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said on Wednesday its leaders' plans to campaign have been stymied because permission to fly helicopters was denied. The party has now asked Election Commission to extend campaigning by a day, till November 3. "The delay in granting permission by the ATC in the landing and take-off of helicopters of our leaders has...
02:57 AM, Nov 01, 2012
Shimla: Sixty companies of central paramilitary forces, including ITBP and CRPF, will be deployed in Himachal Pradesh to ensure free and fair elections at 7,253 polling booths on November 4. 25 companies of ITBP, 15 companies of SSB, 10 of CRPF and 10 companies of BSF would be deployed at the polling booths the state for 46,08,359 electors including 45,33,713 general electors and 74,646 service electors. All 68 constituencies, including...
10:40 PM, Oct 31, 2012
Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi has been criticised for his 'Rs 50 crore girlfriend' comment about MoS HRD Shashi Tharoor's wife Sunanda Pushkar. But on Wednesday, he gave himself credit for never attacking the media. "I am proud that although I have been targeted so many times by people, I have never lost my cool and misbehaved with media." ...
03:48 PM, Oct 31, 2012
Congress President Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday put in her first appearance in Himachal Pradesh as it approaches the polls. The state votes on Sunday. Sonia Gandhi told Shimla to vote out the BJP. ...
04:04 PM, Oct 30, 2012
