Fadnavis to embark on `rath yatra' for Maharashtra poll campaign
India | Jun 22, 2019, 10:50 PM ISTRevenue minister and senior party leader Chandrakant Patil said Fadnavis' campaign tour will start in August and the date will be announced later.
Revenue minister and senior party leader Chandrakant Patil said Fadnavis' campaign tour will start in August and the date will be announced later.
The Jammu and Kashmir unit of the BJP Wednesday demanded that the term of the state assembly should be reduced from six to five years, saying the state must have laws similar to those enacted by Parliament for the entire country.
The assembly elections in the state are likely to be held after the Amarnath Yatra this year.
It is people`s victory, says Jaganmohan Reddy, the new CM of Andra Pradesh
Voting began at 7 a.m. with 22,482 voters eligible to cast their votes, of which 10,697 were male and 11,785 female.
Senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah Tuesday termed the growing clamour within his party to make him chief minister once again as an expression of supporters' "affection", but said he still stands by his word about not contesting the next assembly polls.
Clashes between the workers of the two parties were reported from various parts of the state including Guntur and Prakasam districts.
The bypoll, scheduled on May 19, was necessitated after the death of sitting MLA and the then chief minister Manohar Parrikar last month.
The polling will be held between 7 am and 5 pm in total of 567 polling station across four districts.
General elections are scheduled to be held in seven phases from 11 April to 19 May 2019 to constitute the 17th Lok Sabha.
The general consensus is that the Jammu and Kashmir Assembly elections can be held with adequate security deployments before this year's Amarnath Yatra which begins on July 1
Tamil matinee idol Rajnikanth has announced on Sunday said he would not contest the bypoll expected to the Tamil Nadu Assembly, nearly a month after declaring that his target was only the Assembly election.
As per a Supreme Court ruling, the outer limit for holding fresh polls after dissolution of a House is six months and in case of Jammu and Kashmir, this deadline ends in May 2019.
They, however, said the turnout is likely to increase as there were people in queues in several booths after 5 PM, the scheduled time for voting to end.
State Chief Secretary Satya Gopal requested the Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) of India, Sunil Arora, during a video conference here on Tuesday, an official communique said here on Wednesday.
After stunning victory of Congress in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan, chief ministers of the three key states will be sworn in at different ceremonies in their respective states on Monday.
The district comprises seven Assembly seats of which four are reserved for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, making Mr Nath ineligible to contest from them.
Half of the newly elected legislators in the Mizoram Assembly are first time MLAs.
An editorial in the CPI-M journal "People's Democracy" also warned the Congress to immediately address the problems of agrarian distress and employment generation in Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh.
All eyes now were on party president Rahul Gandhi's choice of chief ministers of the three states, which he will decide after the victorious MLAs finish their meetings in the three states.
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