Assam Assembly Elections 2021: 281 candidates file nomination for first phase
Elections to the 126-member Assam assembly will be held in three phases on March 27, April 1 and April 6.
Mar 10, 2021, 17:00 PM IST
Kerala Assembly Elections 2021: Communist Party of India(Marxist) announces 83 candidates, 5 ministers not on list
Five ministers of the Kerala Government and 33 sitting MLAs of the Left Democratic Front (LDF) will not be in the fray.
Mar 10, 2021, 16:43 PM IST
West Bengal Assembly Polls: TMC supremo Mamata Banerjee files nomination from Nandigram Assembly seat
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee filed her papers at the Haldia sub-divisional office, after taking part in a 2-km roadshow. Mamata will face her former protege and BJP leader Suvendu Adhikari in the high-profile Nandigram assembly seat.
Mar 10, 2021, 15:06 PM IST
Tamil Nadu Assembly election: TTV Dhinakaran's AMMK releases first list of candidates
Earlier on Monday, AMMK announced an alliance with Asaduddin Owaisi-led AIMIM for the upcoming Assembly elections. AIMIM will contest in three Assembly constituencies including Vaniyambadi, Krishnagiri, and Sankarapuram.
Mar 10, 2021, 14:02 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi to lead BJP’s West Bengal assembly election campaign, Amit Shah, JP Nadda, Mithun Chakraborty among star campaigners
Apart from PM Modi and Mithun Chakravorty, BJP`s list of star campaigners for West Bengal includes party chief JP Nadda, Union Ministers Amit Shah, Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Arjun Munda, Dharmendra Pradhan, Smriti Irani and Babul Supriyo.
Mar 10, 2021, 12:32 PM IST
PM Narendra Modi, JP Nadda, Amit Shah among BJP’s star campaigners for Assam assembly election, check full list
The names of Union minister Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari, Narendra Singh Tomar, Smriti Irani, Arjun Munda, Jitendra Singh, Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, Anurag Singh Thakur, BL Santosh, Baijayant Jay Panda, Dilip Saikia, Shah Nawaj Hussain, Poonam Mahajan, Manoj Tiwari, Ravi Kishan, and Locket Chatterjee also figure in the party’s star campaigners list.
Mar 10, 2021, 11:08 AM IST
West Bengal assembly election 2021: Mamata Banerjee to file nomination from Nandigram seat today, rejects 'outsider' tag
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, who is campaigning hard for her party, will file her nomination for the Nandigram seat on Wednesday to contest the upcoming assembly election in the state. The TMC chief had arrived in Nandigram on March 9 and has begun her poll campaign by visiting a temple and a mausoleum on Tuesday.
Mar 10, 2021, 07:35 AM IST
West Bengal Assembly election: EC orders transfer of DGP Virendra ahead of polls
Ahead of West Bengal Assembly election, the Election Commission of India on Tuesday (March 9, 2021) transferred West Bengal Director General of Police (DGP) Virendra and IPS officer P Nirajnayan will be take over as the post of Bengal's top cop.
Mar 09, 2021, 22:01 PM IST
CM Mamata Banerjee recites Chandipath at Nandigram, says 'do not dare to play Hindu card with me'
Mamata Banerjee said, "Singur movement took place months before the Nandigram movement. I had already completed 26 days of hunger strike against Singur land acquisition in December 2006. It was then that Nandigram happened in 2007. The Singur movement provided much-needed momentum to the Nandigram movement."
Mar 09, 2021, 21:20 PM IST
Assam Assembly election: CM Sarbananda Sonowal files nomination from Majuli
Assam elections will be held in three phases. The first phase of notification is March 2 and 47 seats in 12 districts will go to the polls. The last date of nomination is March 9, and the date of poll is March 27.
Mar 09, 2021, 18:32 PM IST
People of Nandigram will make BJP 'April fool' on April 1: CM Mamata Banerjee
West Bengal chief minister said, "Some people are saying that I am an outsider. I, being a Bengali, is an outsider and you people who are from Delhi are not outsiders?." "If you don’t want me to file the nomination, I will not, but if you consider me your daughter then I will move ahead with filing my nomination," she added.
Mar 09, 2021, 17:50 PM IST
DNA Exclusive: 'I am the first person to have campaigned for BJP as an actor,' says Mithun Chakraborty
Chakraborty said that his "Cobra" remark was taken out of context and blown out of proportion.
Mar 08, 2021, 22:43 PM IST
Kamal Haasan says his party would encourage specially challenged candidates
Actor and politician Kamal Haasan urged women to follow, speak about and play an active role in politics, citing how Mahatma Gandhi's movement owed its success to brave women. "Politics affects women, hence you must have an effect on politics" he urged the ladies. The veteran actor was addressing women achievers from various streams on the occasion of International Women's day.
Mar 08, 2021, 19:57 PM IST
West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee slams PM Modi for 'spreading lies and canards' against TMC, says fight is between me and BJP in all 294 seats
Mamata Banerjee said that the voters would witness 'Didi versus BJP' fight in all 294 constituencies of the poll-bound state.
Mar 08, 2021, 17:12 PM IST
'New Kerala with Modi': NDA releases campaign slogan for upcoming assembly elections
The slogan was presented by Union Home minister Amit Shah in the presence of Union Ministers Prahlad Joshi, V Muraleedharan, former Mizoram Governor Kummanam Rajasekharan, E Sreedharan, senior BJP leaders in state and other NDA leaders, during a valedictory function of BJP’s Kerala Vijay Yatra.
Mar 08, 2021, 07:09 AM IST
'Corruption Olympics’, ‘Khela hobe’: PM Narendra Modi, Mamata Banerjee exchange barbs, set tone of upcoming polls in West Bengal
On one hand, Prime Minister Narendra Modi mounted a sharp attack on TMC over corruption and lack of development in the state, on the other state chief minister Mamata Banerjee said that she was ready to play one-on-one.
Mar 07, 2021, 23:20 PM IST
So many scams that 'Corruption Olympics' can be organised: PM Narendra Modi takes dig at TMC
Addressing a public rally at Kolkata's Brigade Parade Ground, Modi targeted Mamata Banerjee-led government for “playing with the hard-earned money of the people.”
Mar 07, 2021, 16:45 PM IST
West Bengal polls: BJP's Kailash Vijayvargiya meets Mithun Chakraborty, amid speculation around actor joining party
The national general secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Kailash Vijayvargiya met actor Mithun Chakraborty in Kolkata on Saturday amid speculations that he may be joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi`s Brigade rally in Kolkata.
Mar 07, 2021, 07:20 AM IST
Union Home Minister Amit Shah to visit poll-bound states of Kerala and Tamil Nadu today
Kicking off Bharatiya Janata Party's campaign in poll bound states of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, Union Home Minister Amit Shah is on a one-day visit to the two states on Sunday (March 7).
Mar 07, 2021, 06:46 AM IST
Mamata Banerjee ran away from Bhawanipore, will lose by over 50,000 votes in Nandigram: Suvendu Adhikari
Adhikari has been confirmed as the BJP’s candidate contesting from Nadnigram against the TMC supremo. He said he will beat Banerjee by over 50,000 votes.
Mar 06, 2021, 23:33 PM IST
