Senior Citizens to be given special emphasis in Elections : CEO
Shimla, Mar 15(UNI) Chief Electoral Officer of the State, Devesh Kumar on Friday said that in the view of relevance and special needs of the senior citizens in the State, participation of this important category in the Lok Sabha Election-2019 would be enhanced through various awareness programmes.
Lok Sabha Polls: AICC President Rahul Gandhi was invited to contest from Karnataka
Bengaluru, Mar 15(UNI/IBNS): Former Chief Minister and JD(S)-Congress Coalition government Co-ordination Committee Chairman Siddaramaiah, has extended invitation to AICC Chief Rahul Gandhi to contest from Karnataka in the 2019 General Elections.
Central forces to patrol from tomorrow;TMC launches dharna
Kolkata, Mar 15 (UN) The first company of BSF, scheduled to reach Kolkata today, will begin patrolling city streets from tomorrow, ahead of the May 19 Lok Sabha polls.
Lok Sabha polls: Oppositions move SC demanding safety of EVMs
New Delhi, Mar 14 (IBNS): Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, 21 opposition parties on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking more safety norms for the Electronic Voting Machines.
LS polls: Congress, JD(S) agree to 20-8 seat sharing for Karnataka
Bengaluru, Mar 13 (IBNS): Ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, the Congress and Janata Dal (Secular), coalition partners in Karnataka, have agreed to seat sharing from the state.
Congress releases second list of 21 candidates for LS polls
New Delhi, Mar 13 (UNI) The Congress on Wednesday released its second list of 21 candidates for the Lok Sabha elections which includes names of Priya Dutt from Mumbai North Central, former Union minister Sushil Kumar Shinde from Solapur-SC, Raj Babbar from Moradabad, Sriprakash Jaiswal from Kanpur and Sanjay Singh from Sultanpur.
BJP, Cong demand central forces in 77,000 polling booths of WB, TMC slams
Kolkata, Mar 13 (UNI): The ruling Trinamool Congress on Wednesday slammed the opposition and said they were insulting the people after BJP and Congress demanded that whole West Bengal be declared super sensitive and central para-military forces deployed in all the 77,000 polling booths across the state.
LS polls: Modi reaches out to Rahul Gandhi, Big B, Virat Kohli and Khans to motivate voters
New Delhi, Mar 13 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday appealed to various important personalities from sportsmen to politicians to Bollywood stars with an appeal to encourage more voters to exercise their electoral rights in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
Mamata's candidate list for Lok Sabha polls is a fusion of glamour, youth and experience
Kolkata, Mar 12 (IBNS): On a day her former MP Anupam Hazra joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), West Bengal Chief Minister and Trinamool Congress (TMC) supremo Mamata Banerjee came out with a candidate list featuring old horses, youth along and a dash of contemporary Tollywood glamour for the 2019 General Elections.
Be ready to face questions over 2014 poll promises: Shiv Sena
Mumbai, Mar 12 (UNI) After a brief lull, post announcement of its alliance with BJP, the Shiv Sena is back on its old line, targeting its ally on the issues, over which the party had been criticising the government for the past four-and-a-half years.
Lok Sabha polls: Mamata Banerjee to announce TMC candidate list today
Kolkata, Mar 12 (IBNS/UNI): West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee will announce her party Trinamool Congress (TMC)'s candidate list for the upcoming Lok Sabha polls on Tuesday afternoon.
CWC meet on PM Modi's turf draws strategy for LS polls
Ahmedabad, Mar 12 (UNI): A meeting of the Congress Working Committee, the highest decision-making body of the Congress, is being held on Tuesday here to review preparedness for the Lok Sabha elections and draw a strategy of the party to take on the BJP.
Even Holi is coming during election campaign programme period: Prasad
New Delhi, Mar 11 (IBNS): Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Monday criticised the opposition leaders as they stirred a controversy by questioning the timing of hosting the Lok Sabha polls during the month of Ramzan.
It is either Modi or chaos, Arun Jaitley on Lok Sabha elections
New Delhi, Mar 11 (UNI/IBNS) Terming the 2019 Lok Sabha elections as 'Modi Vs Chaos', senior BJP leader and Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Monday described Congress president Rahul gandhi as an 'inadequatew leader' who is 'tried, tested and failed'
BJD to finalise candidates for both LS and Assembly seats soon: Naveen
Bhubaneswar, Mar 11 (UNI) Ruling Biju Janata Dal (BJD) in Odisha will soon finalize the party’s candidates for the Lok Sabha and Assembly elections in Odisha, party supremo and Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said here today.