Lok Sabha Polls
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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Six candidates remain in fray for lone Mizoram seat
Mizoram | Mar 31, 2024, 05:50 PM ISTMizoram registered one of the highest voter turnouts in India in the assembly polls, held in November last year, while the polling percentage in the last Lok Sabha elections in 2019 was "even lower than the national average of 67 per cent", a statement said.
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I.N.D.I.A. bloc leaders show strength at Delhi rally, question Kejriwal's arrest ahead of elections
India | Mar 31, 2024, 05:15 PM ISTSeveral Opposition leaders including Rahul Gandhi, Tejashwi Yadav, Champai Soren, Uddhav Thackeray, and Akhilesh Yadav along with others raised their voices against the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal and Hemant Soren among other leaders. The rally was held at Ramlila Ground in Central Delhi.
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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Apna Dal-K announces new alliance with Owaisi-led AIMIM in Uttar Pradesh
Uttar Pradesh | Mar 31, 2024, 04:44 PM ISTThe new alliance comes days after the Samajwadi Party called off its ties with Apna Dal (Kameravadi) ahead of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. Before the 2022 state polls, the SP had formed an umbrella alliance with several smaller parties, including the Apna Dal (K).
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Why do Bhojpuri stars get ticket in other states but not in Bihar? Explained
Bihar | Mar 31, 2024, 12:51 PM ISTBhojpuri stars are making it big in national politics but they seem conspicuous by their absence in the electoral battle in Bihar, the very springhead of the language spoken in places as far-off as Mauritius, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago.
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West Bengal: Cash, drugs, alcohol and gold worth over Rs 147 cr seized ahead of Lok Sabha elections
West Bengal | Mar 31, 2024, 07:41 AM ISTLok Sabha elections 2024: West Bengal will witness a seven-phase polling between April 19 and June 1. An initial probe revealed that the gold bars were smuggled from neighbouring Bangladesh through the border area of North 24 Parganas district.
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Lok Sabha Elections 2024: 147 candidates in fray in 32 assembly seats in Sikkim
India | Mar 31, 2024, 07:11 AM ISTSikkim assembly elections: Chief Minister PS Tamang and former CM Pawan Kumar Chamling, each with their own political legacy, are among the prominent contenders in this electoral battle.
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Lok Sabha polls: BJP candidates for 14 seats to start filing nominations in Karnataka from tomorrow
Karnataka | Mar 31, 2024, 06:57 AM ISTLok Sabha elections 2024: The general elections in Karnataka will be held in two phases on April 26 and May 7 for 28 constituencies. On April 4, Captain Brijesh Chowta will submit his nomination in Mangaluru for the Dakshina Kannada Seat.
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Mizoram CEO holds meeting to devise strategy to ensure high voter turnout
Mizoram | Mar 30, 2024, 06:02 PM ISTThe state recorded a 63.13 per cent voter turnout in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, which was much lower than the over 80 per cent turnout registered in the state assembly elections last year.
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Lok Sabha Elections: LJP (Ramvilas) announces 5 candidates, Chirag Paswan to contest from Hajipur
Bihar | Mar 31, 2024, 03:26 AM ISTThe seven-phase Lok Sabha polls, the world’s biggest election exercise, will kick off on April 19 with the counting of votes set to take place on June 4
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Lok Sabha Election 2024: Rajnath Singh to head BJP's election manifesto committee | Complete list
India | Mar 30, 2024, 04:59 PM ISTThe Bhartiya Janta Party has released five lists so far which include candidates like PM Modi, Amit Shah, Mansukh Mandaviya, Bhupender Yadav, Jyotiraditya Scindia among others.
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Lok Sabha polls: 'Shiv Sena-UBT can't win any seat without Congress' support, says Sanjay Nirupam
Maharashtra | Mar 30, 2024, 02:31 PM ISTLok Sabha elections 2024: Congress is considering friendly fights in disputed constituencies. Nirupam was responding to Naseem Khan's statement that the party's state unit has sent a proposal to its central leadership seeking permission to have friendly fights in 6 seats in Mumbai.
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Thoothukudi Lok Sabha elections 2024: DMK MP Kanimozhi to fight once again in a triangular contest
Tamil Nadu | Apr 18, 2024, 02:21 PM ISTHot seats in Lok Sabha Elections: Voting for all 39 seats in Tamil Nadu will be held in first phase on April 19. In the 2019 general elections, the DMK-led Secular Progressive Alliance, comprising the Congress, VCK, MDMK, CPI, CPI(M), IUML, MMK, KMDK, TVK, and AIFB, registered a landslide victory.
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Lok Sabha elections: Yusuf Pathan barred from using 2011 ODI World Cup images during poll campaign
West Bengal | Mar 30, 2024, 10:38 AM ISTLok Sabha elections 2024: Elections to the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the state will be held in seven phases on April 19, 26, May 7, 13, 20, 25 and June 1. By-elections to two assembly constituencies will be held on May 7 (Bhagawangola) and June 1 (Baranagar).
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Lok Sabha elections 2024: Election Commission prohibits exit polls between April 19 to June 1
India | Mar 30, 2024, 08:40 AM ISTLok Sabha elections 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi, BJP chief JP Nadda, and Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah have been named as star campaigners of the saffron party among 40 others in Chhattisgarh which will vote in three phases of general elections.
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West Bengal: BJP candidate seeks blessings of ailing TMC veteran for polls
West Bengal | Mar 29, 2024, 07:28 PM ISTThe two had worked together as political workers. The BJP candidate said that the TMC veteran had recognised him and wished him luck, while he wished a long life for the TMC veteran.
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Lok Sabha Elections: 'Maharashtra Congress wants friendly fights on six seats', says Naseem Khan
Maharashtra | Mar 29, 2024, 07:10 PM ISTThe Congress, Uddhav Thackeray-led Shiv Sena (UBT) and the Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) comprise the Maha Vikas Aghadi.
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'ED wants AAP's Lok Sabha election strategy from Arvind Kejriwal's phone', says Atishi
Delhi | Mar 29, 2024, 12:45 PM ISTArvind Kejriwal arrested: Atishi alleged that BJP's interest lies in accessing AAP's Lok Sabha election plans and constituency surveys through Kejriwal's phone, using the ED as a tool to achieve their political objectives.
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Govinda joins Eknath Shinde's Shiv Sena ahead of Lok Sabha elections
Maharashtra | Mar 28, 2024, 06:57 PM ISTEarlier, a few days ago Actor Govinda met Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde in Mumbai sparking speculations about his intention to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections.
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Nirmala Sitharaman decides against contesting Lok Sabha polls, says 'don't have money to fight'
India | Mar 28, 2024, 07:43 AM ISTUnion Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman has opted out from contesting the upcoming Lok Sabha elections. The seven-phase Lok Sabha polls will kick off on April 19 and the results will be declared on June 4.
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Lok Sabha polls 2024: BJP appoints election in-charges, co-incharges for states, Union Territories
India | Mar 28, 2024, 07:01 AM ISTLok Sabha polls 2024: Lok Sabha elections will be held across seven phases beginning April 19. The counting of votes will take place on June 4.