Election

Kolkata: By-polls to five Assembly constituencies of West Bengal will be held May 19 and the votes there will be counted along with those of all the Lok Sabha seats, the Election Commission said, late Saturday evening. Incidentally May 19, is the seventh and last...

BJP’s Puri Lok Sabha candidate Sambit Patra has gone into an aggressive campaign mode. In an interview with Manish Kumar of Orissa POST, Patra speaks about promises, use of religion in politics among other issues. Excerpts: OP: What are the issues on which you are...

New Delhi: Citing the model code of conduct for the Lok Sabha polls, the Election Commission (EC) directed Saturday ‘Eros Now’ to immediately take down a web series on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and all related contents till further orders. The EC order said the streaming...

New Delhi: Citing a complaint filed against Rahul Gandhi, the BJP Saturday raised questions on the Congress president's citizenship and educational qualification, and asked him to come clean on the matter. The BJP's reaction comes in the wake of the complaint filed with returning officer...

Lucknow: Sanghmitra Maurya, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate from Uttar Pradesh's Badaun Lok Sabha seat, has landed in a controversy by asking her supporters to resort to fake voting if the actual voters were unable to cast their ballots. In a video that has...

Buniadpur (West Bengal): Lashing out at Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Saturday here that ‘speedbreaker didi’ has lost her sleep after the first two phases of the Lok Sabha polls in West Bengal. Addressing an election rally here in...

Keonjhar: With the third phase of elections a few days away, candidates contesting from Keonjhar Assembly constituency have geared up their campaign. In 2019 general elections, Madhab Sardar (BJD), Mohan Charan Majhi (BJP), Bidyadhar Dehuri (Congress), Ramaprasad Hembram (BSP), Jayasingh Munda (Bahujan Mukti Party), Ranjeet...

Baripada: The Morada Assembly constituency in Mayurbhanj district is the only unreserved seat among nine Assembly seats. Elections will be held here during the fourth phase April 29. There are 13 candidates in the fray. With the campaign peaking up, the candidates and their supporters...

Jagatsinghpur: Elections to the lone parliamentary and four Assembly seats in Jagatsinghpur district will be held in the fourth phase April 29. The elections in some seats are going to see a clash between crorepatis. With the campaign peaking up, the public is hearing rumours...

Bhadaripokhari: Launching a scathing attack on the BJD government, PCC president Niranjan Patnaik said that Odisha and Chhattishgarh are the poorest states in the country even though the BJD has been in power in the state for the last 19 years. Patnaik, who is contesting...