Politics

The Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav was in Pilibhit to campaign in favour of alliance candidate Hemraj Verma.

The local administration had made a special booth for the tribal members hoping that more Shompens will come forward to participate in the polls, as compared to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Confident of winning the elections, Yadav thanked voters for their 'unprecedented voting' towards the SP-BSP-RLD alliance. He also thanked the youth for coming out in large numbers during the first phase of voting.

Popularly known as the Jat-belt of the state, Jats, Muslims, and Dalits form a sizeable share of the electorate on the eight seats in Western UP, and have the potential to influence the results.

How West UP votes in the first two phases of polling will be important in shaping up the trends for the remaining 60 odd seats in the state and in many ways, will determine the shape and structure of the next government at the Centre.

While in Telangana, the election will be held for 17 Lok Sabha seats, in Andhra Pradesh, voters will exercise their franchise to 175 MLAs and 25 MPs.

Thackeray was banned from exercising his franchise in the late nineties for six years after he was found indulging in 'corrupt practice by seeking votes in the name of religion' at a public rally.

During a poll campaign here on Sunday night for BJP's Surat Lok Sabha seat candidate Darshana Jardosh, Gujarat BJP president Jitu Vaghani accused the Congress of trying to create chaos as, he claimed, it had no chance of winning in the city or elsewhere i...

Tamil Nadu goes to polls in the second phase on April 18. Modi said the polls were also a fight between NDA's mission of serving the poor and the opposition's design to 'capture power.'

Attacking the 'grand alliance' of opposition parties as 'Mahamilavat', Prime Minister Narendra Modi said the country should not have a government whose remote control is in the hands of a dozen people.

The EC's advice had come against the backdrop of Income Tax Department's raids in Madhya Pradesh Sunday and in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh in the recent past on politicians and people connected to them.

The Bahujan Samaj Party leader also did not spare the Congress for fielding candidates to weaken the alliance's fight against the BJP.

The senior SP, BSP leaders spoke on the alliance after Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia on Sunday said that the party is still open for a pre and post-poll alliance.

Shah is meeting the two leaders days after they were not given poll tickets. The BJP has fielded Shah from Gujarat's Gandhinagar, a seat represented by Advani for many years.

Though he touches on other issues, including corruption, that helped him come to power four years ago, Kejriwal quickly moves on to his favourite topic at the moment — Delhi’s statehood and Centre’s interference .

Starting from 1991 when the slogan of 'Mandir wahin bayenge' was offered to the masses, the BJP first mentioned Ram Mandir in its manifesto released just before the general elections of 1996.