Lok Sabha polls | Candidates of all 3 major parties in Sivaganga are crorepatis, as per affidavits

Lok Sabha polls | Candidates of all 3 major parties in Sivaganga are crorepatis, as per affidavits

Sitting MP and Congress candidate for Sivaganga Karti Chidambaram. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Affidavits filed before the Returning Officer at Sivaganga Parliamentary constituency reveal that candidates of all three major parties: the Congress, BJP and the AIADMK, are crorepatis. Congress: Karti P. Chidambaram Congress candidate Karti P. Chidambaram (52), who is the sitting MP … Read more

After party worker protests, BJP candidates from Vadodara, Sabarkantha opt out of electoral race

After party worker protests, BJP candidates from Vadodara, Sabarkantha opt out of electoral race

After protests from local party workers, two BJP candidates — Vadodara MP Ranjanben Bhatt and Sabarkantha’s debutant candidate Bhikhaji Thakor — have opted out from the electoral race, citing “personal reasons”. Their names were cleared by the BJP in the first list of candidates. On Saturday, they both announced on social media that they were … Read more

Lok Sabha polls | PMK releases first list of 9 candidates for T.N.

Lok Sabha polls | PMK releases first list of 9 candidates for T.N.

PMK president Anbumani Ramadoss released the party’s first list of candidates for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections on Friday, March 22, 2024. File photograph | Photo Credit: VELANKANNI RAJ Pattali Makkal Katchi (PMK) president Anbumani Ramadoss on Friday, March 22, 2024, released the party’s first list of nine candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The … Read more

Congress reveals first list of Lok Sabha candidates for Chhatisgarh

Congress reveals first list of Lok Sabha candidates for Chhatisgarh

Bhupesh Baghel. | Photo Credit: SANDEEP SAXENA The Congress’ first of six Lok Sabha candidates for Chhattisgarh includes two ex-ministers, and a sitting MP, apart from former Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel.  While it announced the candidatures of Bhupesh Baghel (Rajnandgaon Lok Sabha), Vikas Upadhyay (Raipur), Tamradhwaj Sahu (Mahasamund), Rajendra Sahu (Durg), Jyotsna Mahant (Korba) and … Read more

LS polls: Karnataka finds no place in BJP’s first list of 195 candidates

LS polls: Karnataka finds no place in BJP’s first list of 195 candidates

The names of candidates from Karnataka, the only State in South India where the BJP has held power, did not figure among the party’s first list of 195 candidates for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections, even as it announced candidates from Kerala and Telangana on Saturday. Sources in the State unit of the BJP said … Read more

Congress to field candidates from all 175 Assembly constituencies in A.P.

Congress to field candidates from all 175 Assembly constituencies in A.P.

Y.S. Sharmila speaking after taking charge as the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee president, in Vijayawada on Sunday. | Photo Credit: G.N. RAO Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee (APCC) president Y.S. Sharmila on January 21 (Sunday) announced that the party candidates will contest from all the 175 Assembly constituencies in the State in the forthcoming elections. Addressing … Read more

Ethnicity of Mizoram candidate’s spouse invites stir

Ethnicity of Mizoram candidate’s spouse invites stir

GUWAHATI A students’ organisation in Mizoram on Friday threatened a stir against Congress for fielding a Mizo woman married to a non-Mizo. The organisation Mizo Zirlai Pawl (MZP), had appealed to all political parties ahead of the November 7 Assembly polls not to nominate tribal persons, specifically women, who are married to non-Mizos. Congress defied … Read more

BRS issues B-Forms to 97 candidates so far

BRS issues B-Forms to 97 candidates so far

BRS president K. Chandrasekhar Rao giving B-Form to his son and working president of the party K.T. Rama Rao in Hyderabad. | Photo Credit: By Arrangement hyderabad Putting to rest the speculation that Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) could change some candidates among the ones announced already, the party leadership has handed over B-Forms to 97 … Read more

AAP announces 10 candidates each for Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh 

AAP announces 10 candidates each for Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh 

AAP national convener and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal | Photo Credit: ANI Days after the Mumbai Summit of the INDIA bloc saw the allies resolved to announce seat sharing for all States at the earliest for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the Aam Aadmi Party has decided to strike out alone in the upcoming Assembly … Read more

BRS announces candidates for Telangana polls; KCR to contest from two seats

BRS announces candidates for Telangana polls; KCR to contest from two seats

Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) on August 21, 2023, announced its candidates for the upcoming Telangana Assembly Elections, even before the Election Commission announced the polling dates. Releasing the list of candidates from 115 out of 119 constituencies, Telangana Chief Minister and party president K. Chandrashekar … Read more