Politics

With a history of sending only a Yadav candidate to the Lok Sabha, it is going to be a triangular contest between RJD’s Sharad Yadav, JD(U)’s Dinesh Chandra Yadav and Jan Adhikar Party-Loktantrik (JAP-L)’s Pappu Yadav.

Thakur had earlier faced flak for claiming that former chief of Mumbai’s Anti-Terrorist Squad Hemant Karkare, who had died in action during the 26/11 terror attacks, lost his life because she had 'cursed him'.

The statement is bound to raise fissures in Congress as other aspirants for the top position won’t be happy with Siddaramaiah’s ambitious remark.

Sanghmitra Maurya, daughter of Uttar Pradesh minister Swami Prasad Maurya, had earlier hit the headlines by saying that she would become a goon if anyone tried to bully the people of Badaun.

Pandhari Yadav is pitted against BJP leader Keshri Patel and Pankaj Niranjan of the Congress.

Election Commission sources said that while a report was sought from the district magistrate on Roy going missing, a replacement has been already made.

Manoj Sinha said that no criminal of Purvanchal is in a position to enter the boundary of Ghazipur and glower at BJP workers and if he dares to do it, 'his eyes will not remain safe.'

The directions were issued after the CEO's office came across instances of government employees getting engaged in disseminating contents related to political parties and also posting election propaganda material on social media.

Dinesh Bambhaniya, a former aide of Hardik Patel, said the incident took place because he joined the Congress, leaving behind the interests of the community for which he had launched the quota stir.

Addressing women party workers here, Sushma Swaraj stressed on a 2014-like full majority BJP-led government this time also, saying former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee could not do everything which he wanted to because he was heading a coalition adm...

While the attack on BJP's GVL was the first one inside the BJP headquarters, this is not the first time that a national political figures has had to duck flying shoes during public addresses.

The malfunctioning of electronic voting machines was also reported from Uttar Pradseh, West Bengal and Assam.

BJP candidate Bhola Singh had defeated BSP leader Pradeep Kumar Jatav by a margin of 4,21,973 votes in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

He appealed to voters to vote for justice to the unemployed youth, struggling farmers, small businessmen and those who were persecuted due to their religion or caste.

As a part of the free service, Ola has assigned 270 cabs to the election commission which will be made available to ferry PWD voters to polling booths.

The BJP aims to use the Citizenship Amendment Bill to ask voters for another term, while its opposition parties—Congress and AIUDF —have alleged that the entire process has created fear among the minorities.