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  Assembly Election 2022 Updates: Ex-CM Laxmikant Parsekar says he will contest as independent

  January 24, 2022 0:04 IST

  The Election Commission has already announced the dates and all the political parties have started flexing their muscles in the poll-bound states -- Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Manipur, Goa and Punjab.

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  Uttarakhand Election 2022: Full list of Congress candidates

  January 24, 2022 23:26 IST

  The elections will be conducted in a single-phase manner on February 14. Poll results will be out on March 10.

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  Goa Elections 2022: Full list of Aam Aadmi Party candidates

  January 22, 2022 23:44 IST

  Assembly elections in Goa will take place in a single phase and polling will take place on February 14.

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  UP polls: SP leader Azam Khan moves SC, seeks interim bail to campaign for elections

  January 22, 2022 23:23 IST

  Azam Khan has been lodged in Sitapur jail since February 2020 last year as many cases registered against him.

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  Manipur Elections 2022: Full list of Congress candidates

  January 22, 2022 21:55 IST

  Election results will be announced on March 10. In total, elections in all 5 poll-bound states will be conducted in 7 phases.

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  UP polls: Congress nominee from Bareilly Cantt joins SP, to contest from same seat

  January 22, 2022 19:28 IST

  Supriya Aron, a former mayor of Bareilly, joined the Samajwadi Party along with her husband and former Congress MP Pravin Singh Aron. SP president Akhilesh Yadav announced her candidature from the same seat, dropping Rajesh Agarwal who was earlier declared as SP nominee.

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  UP Polls 2022: Shivpal Yadav to contest from Jaswantnagar on SP ticket

  January 22, 2022 23:32 IST

  The leader also said that he will be contesting on Akhilesh Yadav- led Samajwadi Party's seat instead of his own party Pragatisheel Samajwadi Party.

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  EC extends ban on physical rallies and road shows till Jan 31

  January 26, 2022 7:13 IST

  On January 15, the commission had extended the ban until January 22.

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  UP polls: Amit Shah holds door-to-door campaign in Kairana, says 'new wave' of development seen

  January 22, 2022 17:37 IST

  During his visit to Kairana, Amit Shah also stated that UP is on its path to becoming the 'most developed state' in India.

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  UP Election: Here's why swing constituencies in UP hold huge significance for all political parties

  January 22, 2022 16:49 IST

  Considering the fact that a little vote-swing could help them corner these seats, parties have been meticulously selecting right candidates there to improve their tally.

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  UP: Mayawati names 51 candidates for seats going to polls in second phase

  January 22, 2022 16:40 IST

  Releasing the list of names, the BSP president appealed to her party workers to follow the COVID-19 protocol issued by the Election Commission while working for the victory of candidates to realise the dreams of B.R Ambedkar and party's founder Kanshi Ram.

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  UP Polls 2022: Owaisi announces alliance; proposes 2 CMs, 3 Dy CMs if AIMIM comes to power

  August 18, 2026 15:58 IST

  Owaisi said that if the alliance comes to power there will be 2 Chief Ministers, one from OBC community and another from Dalit community.

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  Ready to withdraw from poll race if BJP fields a "good candidate" from Panaji: Utpal Parrikar

  January 22, 2022 15:47 IST

  Parrikar was denied ticket by the BJP from Panaji, a constituency which his father and party veteran had represented for more than two decades.

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  UP Assembly polls: All political parties to get 1,798 mins for campaigning on Doordarshan, Akashvani

  January 22, 2022 14:32 IST

  The Election commission had put a ban on election rallies and roadshows until January 15 first and later extended till January 22. The progress on vaccination will be a key factor in allowing relaxations.

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  60% Goa MLAs switched parties in last five years, a 'record' in India: ADR report

  January 22, 2022 13:45 IST

  In the five year tenure of the current Assembly (2017-2022), as many as 24 MLAs have changed their parties, which is 60 per cent of the total strength of the House.

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  UP elections 2022: Akhilesh Yadav to fight from Karhal seat in Mainpuri

  January 22, 2022 15:45 IST

  Karhal is a Samajwadi bastion and Mulayam Singh Yadav represents the Mainpuri parliamentary constituency in the Lok Sabha. Karhal has over 1.44 lakh Yadav voters and is considered 'safe' for the Samajwadi leadership.

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  UP polls: Open for post-poll alliance with any party except BJP, says Priyanka Gandhi Vadra

  January 22, 2022 12:24 IST

  she accused both the Samajwadi Party and BJP of practicing a similar kind of politics.

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  Assembly Election 2022 Updates: BJP accuses Congress of spreading hatred in Punjab

  January 22, 2022 23:53 IST

  The seven-phased polls in Uttar Pradesh will take place on February 10, 14, 20, 23, 27, March 3 and 7. Voting in Manipur will take place in two phases on February 27 and March 3, while Punjab, Uttarakhand and Goa elections will be conducted in a single phase on February 14. The results will be declared on March 10.

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  BJP names 85 more UP candidates; Aditi Singh from Rae Bareli, ex-IPS officer Arun from Kannauj

  January 21, 2022 20:37 IST

  The BJP has named both Singh and Yadav from their current seats of Rae Bareli and Sirsaganj respectively, while Arun, a Dalit, will contest from Kannauj, a reserved seat.

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  Ahead of Goa polls, ex-CM Parrikar's son Utpal quits BJP, to contest as independent

  January 21, 2022 22:30 IST

  Asked whether he would seek support of other political parties, he said the only platform for him was the BJP.

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  Bulli Bai app case: Three accused denied bail; court says their acts defamed womanhood

  January 21, 2022 18:25 IST

  Vishal Kumar Jha, Shweta Singh and Mayak Rawat were denied bail by Bandra Metropolitan Court Magistrate Komalsing Raj on January 20, but a detailed report of the order was made available on Friday.

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  Punjab Election 2022: Full list of BJP candidates

  January 27, 2022 16:27 IST

  Announcing the list, BJP National General Secy, Tarun Chugh, said tickets have been given to 12 candidates who belong to farmers' families, 8 tickets to members of the SC community, 13 tickets to Sikhs. The list has doctors, lawyers, sportspersons, farmers, youth, women & former IAS, he aaded.

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  UP Election 2022: UP CM Yogi Adityanath launches BJP's theme song for polls

  January 21, 2022 18:24 IST

  Releasing the song, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath said it encapsulated the work done by his government in the past five years.

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  Uttarakhand Polls 2022: Expelled BJP Minister Harak Singh Rawat joins Congress

  January 21, 2022 18:15 IST

  was dismissed from the Pushkar Singh Dhami- led state cabinet on Sunday for six years, for 'indiscipline'.

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  Congress to be blamed if BJP wins in Goa: Shiv Sena

  January 21, 2022 16:41 IST

  Sanjay Raut said that Shiv Sena had presented a proposal to the Congress to form a pre-poll alliance along with the NCP and the Goa Forward Party (GFP) but the grand old party did not respond to the plan. 

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  Punjab CM Channi is losing from Chamkaur Sahib, claims Kejriwal

  January 21, 2022 16:00 IST

  Channi will fight the February 20 state assembly polls from the Chamkaur Sahib seat. The Aam Aadmi Party has been attacking Channi ever since the ED carried out raids at many places including at the premises of Channi's nephew.  

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  PM Modi pitches for 'double engine' of development in Manipur

  January 21, 2022 15:14 IST

  PM Modi said Manipur deserves peace and also deserves to be ridden of frequent bandhs and blockades, and added that it has been achieved under the leadership of Chief Minister N Biren Singh. 

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  Punjab Elections 2022: CM Channi to file defamation case against Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal

  January 21, 2022 15:01 IST

  Channi alleged that Kejriwal was in the habit of levelling accusations to malign the image of others and that in the past it was seen how he had to later apologise to BJP leaders Nitin Gadkari, late Arun Jaitley and SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia.