Tag: assembly elections
LJP Readies For Bihar Elections, Forms 7-member Committee
With eight months to go for the Bihar Assembly elections, political parties have started preparations for the same. The Lok Janshakti Party (LJP), which has considerable following among Dalits, seems to have taken a lead over others and has formed a seven-member committee to prepare a 'vision document'. ....
Covid-19 No Ground For Postponing Polls: SC On Bihar Elections
The Supreme Court on Friday said Covid-19 cannot be a ground for postponing elections, as it declined to entertain a petition seeking postponement of the Assembly elections in Bihar till the state is free from the Covid-19 pandemic.....
Twitter Launches Dedicated Search Prompt For Bihar Elections
The micro-blogging site Twitter on Friday announced a partnership with the Election Commission of India and launched a new search prompt that makes it easy to find credible and authoritative information related to Bihar Assembly elections. ....
Manish Sisodia In Lucknow But No Debate With UP Minister
Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia, on Tuesday, reached Lucknow to keep his promise of a much-awaited debate with Uttar Pradesh minister Siddhartha Nath Singh on the Arvind Kejriwal model versus Yogi Adityanath model of development. ....
J&K DDC Polls Show Democracy Is Alive & Kicking In Kashmir
In the results declared on Tuesday, the Kashmiris have experienced arguably their cleanest ever democratic process, after the Assembly elections of 1977, even as no political party reached close to the half-way mark of 140 seats in the first elections for District Development Councils (DDCs) in the Union Territory. ....
Priyanka, Rahul To Lead Poll Campaign In Kerala
No government in Kerala has retained power so far but the current Pinarayi Vijayan-led LDF government is now aiming to change that after an impressive performance in the local body polls. However, the Congress-led opposition is determined to fight it out and has drafted in Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra as their star campaigners for the Assembly polls to be held in April-May. A senior Congress leader, on condition of anonymity, told IANS, that the party high command views the Kerala Assembly polls with huge importance. "Both th....
Assembly Elections 2021: Twitter Announces Initiatives To Tackle Polls-related Misinformation
As the assembly polls in Assam, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, West Bengal and Puducherry inch closer, Twitter on Wednesday said it is implementing significant product, policy, and enforcement updates to keep the service safe from attempts to manipulate the platform or spread misinformation,....
Everyone Seeks A Pie Of Phoolan's Legacy
Twenty years after she died, former bandit queen and then MP, Phoolan Devi, is all set to make a ‘comeback in the next Uttar Pradesh assembly elections. ....
