Election

Kolkata:  West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee Thursday wrote to Prime Minister Narendra Modi urging him to call an all-party meeting on holding future elections through state funding, saying it was one of the most urgently required electoral reforms in the country. Noting that state...

Bhubaneswar: Ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidate Sabitri Agarwalla has won the Patkura Assembly seat, defeating her Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rival Bijoy Mohapatra by a margin of 17,898 votes. The election results have once again established the constituency as the citadel of the BJD....

Kendrapara:  Ruling BJD candidate Sabitri Agarwalla has established a lead of 11,791 votes over her nearest BJP nominee Bijoy Mohapatra in Patkura Assembly constituency where polling was held on July 20, an election official said Wednesday. While Agarwal has polled 42,037 votes, Mohapatra secured 30,246...

New Delhi: Outgoing Congress chief Rahul Gandhi and party General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Tuesday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) after the 14-month-old Congress-Janata Dal (Secular) coalition government in Karnataka failed to prove its majority in the floor test in the state Assembly. "From its...

Kendrapara:   Around 42 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 1:00pm Saturday in the election to Odisha's Patkura Assembly seat, where polling is under way since morning after being postponed twice in past few months. Tight security arrangements have been made to ensure peaceful polling,...

Bhubaneswar:  A day before Patkura polls, Odisha unit of BJP Friday moved the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) over possible electoral fraud in the Assembly polls scheduled to be held there Saturday. A delegation of BJP leaders led by Lekhashree Samantsinhar met CEO Surendra Kumar citing...

Kendrapara:  Polling for Odisha's Patkura Assembly seat, which was postponed twice in the past few months, will be held Saturday - July 20, Kendrapara district collector Samarth Verma said. Polling will be held from 7:00am to 6:00pm in 309 polling stations. Counting of votes would...

Bhubaneswar:  Leaders of Biju Janata Dal (BJD), Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress were seen making serious efforts to reach out to voters in Patkura Assembly constituency on the last day of campaign Thursday. The constituency will go to polls Saturday. While BJD chief...

New Delhi: Former Union minister and BJP leader Sanjay Paswan raised many eyebrows Friday when he said that cricketer MS Dhoni may join the BJP after retiring from cricket. Paswan claimed that Dhoni might soon begin his new innings in politics as part of ‘Team Narendra Modi’. He added that...

Bhubaneswar: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, Union Ministers Dharmendra Pradhan and Pratap Sarangi; and Odia film stars will campaign for Biju Janata Dal (BJD) and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidates for the Patkura Assembly by-election to be held July 20. The by-poll to Patkura Assembly segment...