Banka is one of the Lok Sabha constituencies in Bihar. The state has 40 parliamentary seats. The Banka seat comprises 6 Assembly segments including Sultanganj, Amarpur, Dhauraiya(sc), Banka, Katoria(st), Belhar. The constituency is a GENERAL seat. The JD(U), the RJD are the main parties in the constituency. In the 2019 Lok Sabha Elections, Giridhari Yadav from JD(U) won the seat with a margin of 200,532 votes. Giridhari Yadav was polled 477,788 votes with a vote share of 48.00 % and defeated Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav from RJD who got 277,256 votes (27.84 %). In the 2014 Lok Sabha Elections, Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav from RJD won the seat and was polled 285,150 votes with a vote share of 31.71%. BJP candidate Putul Kumari got 275,006 votes (30.58 %) and was the runner-up.Jai Prakash Narayan Yadav defeated Putul Kumari by a margin of 10,144 votes.
The Himachal Pradesh BJP has filed a formal complaint with the Election Commission of India, accusing Congress workers of pelting stones at a procession led by Mandi MP candidate Kangana Ranaut in Kaza, Lahaul, & Spiti districts.
Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani, Founder and Chairperson of Reliance Foundation Nita Ambani along with their son Akash arrived to cast their vote in Mumbai. Scroll down to read more.
Several Bollywood celebrities including Aamir Khan and Ranbir Kapoor were spotted at the polling booth in Mumbai, who cast their votes in the fifth phase of Lok Sabha Elections 2024. Scroll down to read more.
Phoolan Devi won her first Lok Sabha election on the ticket of Samajwadi Party from Mirzapur constituency in 1996. Later, she lost the seat to BJP's Virendra Singh in 1998 general elections. In 1999, she again won the seat and held it till her assassination on July 25, 2001.
The Election Commission office in Mizoram on Sunday said more than 1,000 policemen in the state were unable to cast their votes in the Lok Sabha polls held on April 19. But what could be the reason and what did the Election Commission say?
The ongoing Lok Sabha elections are first to be conducted after the abrogation of Article 370. In last phase, Srinagar also witnessed record-breaking polling, marking the highest since 1996.
Amid polling for five Lok Sabha and 35 Assembly seats in Odisha, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday predicted BJP's historic win in the state. He said, on June 10, the state will certainly have the first BJP CM.
Voting on six Lok Sabha constituencies of Mumbai are being held on Monday. Several Bollywood celebrities including Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh were spotted at a polling booth in Mumbai.