Assembly Elections

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi virtually addresses party leaders and workers on the occasion of BJP 'Sthapna Diwas' (Foundation Day), in New Delhi (PTI File Photo)

AA Edit | BJP back to business of prepping for polls

Going beyond the defeat in Karnataka, the party has decided to go all out in pursuing its goals of strengthening its organisation

08 Jun 2023 12:15 AM

Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar with Election Commissioner Anup Chandra Pandey during a press conference for the announcement of schedule of general elections to the Legislative assemblies of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura, in New Delhi. (PTI Photo/Shahbaz Khan)

Tripura goes to poll Feb 16, Nagaland, Meghalaya Feb 27

The polls in nine states are seen as semi-finals before the Lok Sabha elections next year, where the BJP is hoping for a hat-trick

18 Jan 2023 11:03 AM

UP Chief Minister, Yogi Adityanath gestures towards the party supporters during a road show ahead of the Uttar Pradesh state assembly elections, in Allahabad (SANJAY KANOJIA / AFP)

Anand K. Sahay | Will RSS do a rethink over Modi if he takes hit in UP?

Mohan Bhagwat, in an address, had made barely camouflaged critical observations on the government’s handling of the pandemic last summer

26 Feb 2022 7:04 AM

Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav. (PTI Photo)

After free electricity, Akhilesh promises laptops to students if party voted to power

Yadav said the legal cell of his party will lodge an FIR against the BJP IT cell in-charge for indulging in 'false propaganda'

08 Jan 2022 5:20 PM

Chief Election Commissioner Sushil Chandra with Election Commissioner Rajeev Kumar (L) announces the schedule for General Elections to Legislative Assemblies of Goa, Punjab, Manipur, Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh, at a press conference in New Delhi. (PTI/Kamal Kishore)

Five states to vote from February 10 amid COVID curbs, results on March 10

COVID booster dose must for election officials, rallies banned till January 15

08 Jan 2022 4:46 PM

Union Health secretary Rajesh Bhushan (ANI)

Assembly polls 2022: EC, health officials to review COVID situation today

EC is prepared for the assembly polls and is expected to announce the dates soon of Goa, Punjab, Uttarakhand, and Manipur assemblies

06 Jan 2022 10:51 AM

Election Commission meets health secretary to review holding 'safe' polls

It is learnt that there is a strong possibility of the Assembly polls taking place as scheduled and not being postponed

28 Dec 2021 8:37 AM

EC, Health Secretary to discuss COVID situation ahead of Assembly polls in 5 states

Allahabad High Court on Thursday requested the Election Commission of India to immediately postpone the Assembly polls in UP for 1-2 months

27 Dec 2021 12:22 PM

Dilip Cherian | After transfers, U’khand forest officers unite to protect turf

With Assembly elections looming, the state government cannot afford to have a large section of forest officers feeling disgruntled

22 Dec 2021 11:30 PM

Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) president Mayawati. (PTI Photo)

Inaugurating incomplete projects won't help BJP expand voter base: Mayawati

PM Modi had inaugurated the Kashi Vishwanath Corridor project in his Lok Sabha constituency Varanasi on Monday

14 Dec 2021 12:55 PM

A lot of that worry has to do with the perceptions about Yogi running the government with handpicked but clearly inadequate babu support. (PTI File Photo)

Dilip Cherian | Groups of babus play smoke and mirrors ahead of 2022 polls in UP

Yogi too has gathered around his own trusted band of babus. It is this team that steered Yogi’s Covid management

08 Jul 2021 12:53 AM

BJP National President JP Nadda at a meeting with party's National General Secretaries at party headquarters in New Delhi.(Photo: Twitter @BJP4India)

Top BJP leaders discuss preparations for assembly polls in 5 states in 2022

Assembly polls in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab, Manipur and Goa are slated for early next year

26 Jun 2021 9:29 PM

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his principal operative, Union home minister Amit Shah, the saffron party’s new sutra is to form a government in a state through any means. (Photo: PTI)

Anand K. Sahay | The idea behind capturing power in any kind of way: fair or foul

The BJP may or may not win the Assembly elections in Assam. But winning a poll fair and square is not the metric any longer

19 Apr 2021 12:00 AM

The electoral rallies with several lakh people that were held till very recently in Kerala, Assam and Tamil Nadu and which will continue to dominate the political horizon in West Bengal for the rest of this month. (Representational Photo: PTI)

Karan Thapar | Covid: Who’ll pay price for irresponsible netas?

The political rallies and religious snans could easily become super-spreader events. Some perhaps already have

16 Apr 2021 12:00 AM

It was only under Lal Krishna Advani, and then especially under Narendra Modi, that the BJP became the mass-based electoral force it has become, from the cadre-based party that was the Jan Sangh. (Photo: PTI)

Aakar Patel | BJP has never spelt out what ‘parivartan’ it hopes to bring

The Jan Sangh said that it would repeal preventive detention laws which it said were absolutely in contradiction to individual liberty

16 Mar 2021 4:14 AM

Fair and free elections where citizens vote peacefully and elect their representatives and rulers are one of the seminal pillars of a functioning democracy. (Photo: PTI)

AA Edit | Polls a serious business, spare us all the theatrics

Spectacles and theatrics are essential ingredients of Indian elections and our leaders never fail to deliver them

13 Mar 2021 4:41 AM

The focus of the Assembly elections in four states and a Union territory has centred around West Bengal and the big question is whether the BJP under PM Modi will breach the final barrier, as it were, for the right-wing saffron party. (AP/Bikas Das)

Parsa Venkateshwar Rao Jr | Modi’s pan-Indian image won’t help BJP win polls

The right-wing party is learning the hard way that multitudinous India is a multipolar political field

10 Mar 2021 7:21 AM

The main focus of the government in the second part of the session is to get various demands of grants for the financial year 2021-22 passed along with the Finance Bill which carries various tax proposals. (Photo: PTI)

Curtailment of Parliament session on cards amid assembly polls in various states

The second part of the Budget session of Parliament is set to begin from Monday

08 Mar 2021 1:10 AM

If you have taken the shot before anybody else in your circle -- your bhav goes up instantly! (Representational Photo: AFP)

Shobhaa De | I’ve vaxxed… Have you? ‘Jab’ as a status symbol

Meanwhile, Bollywood is all a-flutter dealing with the income tax raids on handpicked filmwallahs

06 Mar 2021 4:58 AM

‘The attack on JNU was barbaric in the least’

All the claims being made by the AAP in the areas of education and health are hugely exaggerated and we will expose them, says Sandeep Dikshit

12 Jan 2020 7:27 AM

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