Election

Bhopal: BJP’s Bhopal Lok Sabha seat candidate Pragya Singh Thakur, who recently kicked up a row with some of her remarks and was observing silence for 63 hours as a mark of penance, broke the vow Thursday to express her elation over poll trends which...

Khurda: The MLA candidates of ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) are leading in Khurda, Begunia and Chilika Assembly segments, EC sources said. BJD’s Jyotirindranath Mitra is leading in Khurda Assembly segment. Similarly, the ruling party’s Rajendra Kumar Sahoo and Prasanta Kumar Jagdev are leading respectively...

Dehradun: The BJP is surging ahead on all five Lok Sabha seats in Uttarakhand with its candidates maintaining comfortable leads over their nearest rivals, the Congress.  State BJP president Ajay Bhatt is leading by a margin of 1,06,373 votes over Congress general secretary and former...

Panaji: After 25 years of uninterrupted run, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Thursday failed to retain the Panaji Assembly constituency, largely represented by late Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar since 1994. The BJP candidate Sidharth Kuncalienkar lost to Congress’ Atanasio Monserrate by 1,758 votes. Monserrate polled...

Chandigarh: BJP candidate and Bollywood actor Sunny Deol is leading by more than 47,000 votes over his nearest rival and Congress nominee Sunil Jakhar from the Gurdaspur Lok Sabha seat in Punjab. From the start of counting of votes at 8am Thursday, Deol has been...

Bhubaneswar: Early trends in Odisha have given the incumbent Biju Janata Dal (BJD) a clear majority in Assembly. The party is leading in over 90 Assembly constituencies while the BJP is leading in 27 seats. The Congress is leading in 13 seats only. In Lok...

Kolkata: The BJP seems to be making deep inroads into West Bengal by leading in 16 seats, while Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress (TMC) is currently ahead in 25 seats in the state. The Congress is leading in one constituency, while the Left is yet to...

Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) candidates were leading in 21 and BJP nominees in six Assembly constituencies as per initial trends, officials said Thursday. BJP legilature party leader K V Singhdeo was trailing behind BJD's Saroj Kumar Meher in Patnagarh Assembly seat which...

Bhubaneswar: The ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) was leading in nine Lok Sabha seats in Odisha as per initials trends Thursday, officials said. In Aska Lok Sabha seat BJD seat Pramila Bisoyi is leading against her nearest BJP rival Anita Subhadarshini by 852 votes, they...

Kolkata: Union minister Babul Supriyo and sitting Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Abhishek Banerjee and greenhorn Mimi Chakrabory were among those taking the lead from their respective constituencies in West Bengal, according to initial EC trends. However, it is a neck and neck contest between the...