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Bengal Elections: Voting for 45 seats in phase 5 begins today; over 1 cr voters to decide fate of 342 candidates
Fp Staff • 4 years agoThe Election Commission has decided to deploy at least 853 companies of central forces to ensure free and fair voting, an official of the poll panel said
Lok Sabha Election 2019; Model Code of Conduct watch: EC issues notice to BJP's Kirron Kher for using children in campaign
Fp Staff • 6 years agoLok Sabha Election 2019; Model Code of Conduct Watch: The Election Commission (EC) has issued a notice to BJP's Chandigarh candidate Kirron Kher, seeking a reply after she shared a video on Twitter in which children were seen campaigning for her.
Lok Sabha Election 2019: Phase 1 sees voters turn out in large numbers; violence mars polling in Andhra Pradesh
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe world's largest polling exercise began on Thursday with an estimated 9 crore Indians coming out to vote for electing 91 parliamentarians in the first phase of over-a-month-long Lok Sabha election.
Telangana Election 2019: 61% polling till 5 pm; Nizamabad steals show with record 185 candidates
Team 101reporters • 6 years agoThe first phase of polling began at 7 am for 16 constituencies, except in Nizamabad, where it began at 8 am and concluded at 6 pm. An estimated 60.57 percent of voters cast their ballot till 5 pm in the state.
11 April Lok Sabha Election 2019: Guide to Phase 1 of polling schedule for states and constituencies
Fp Research • 6 years agoIn Phase 1 of the Lok Sabha Election on 11 April, Andhra, Arunachal, Meghalaya, Uttarakhand, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim, Lakshadweep, Andaman and Telangana will vote for all seats, while Assam, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Kashmir, Maharashtra, Manipur, Odisha, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal will vote for a few of seats.
Congress, BJP manifestos strengthen mai-baap sarkar syndrome, but paternalistic State is biggest hurdle to growth
Seetha • 6 years agoCongress Will Deliver is replete with promises, which is natural for a party which wants to come to power. Sankalpit Bharat, Sashakt Bharat has more chest thumping about achievements, which, too, is natural for an incumbent party that wants another term
Why have photos of Narendra Modi not been removed from tickets, passes: EC asks railways, civil aviation ministries
Fp Staff • 6 years agoThe Election Commission of India has written to the ministries of Railways and Civil Aviation, asking them why photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi have not been removed from rail tickets and Air India boarding passes in spite of the Model Code of Conduct having come into effect.
Lok Sabha polls: Narendra Modi does not 'campaign', he tells stories in which Opposition is villain and he is hero
Srinivasaprasad • 6 years agoWith one term gone and with Modi's delivery falling short of promises, the stuff of his narrative will inevitably change now but his story-telling techniques won’t.
No pre-poll alliance for BJD; Naveen Patnaik says party will contest Lok Sabha, Odisha Assembly elections on its own
• 6 years ago"We will fight the elections on our own," Naveen Patnaik told reporters when asked if there was any likelihood of the BJD entering into a tie-up with other political parties for the parliamentary and Assembly elections in the state.
BJP's fortune in North East for Lok Sabha elections will rest with allies, party's move to pass Citizenship Bill complicates matters
Fp Staff • 6 years agoEven though the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hopes to make gains in terms of seats in the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in North East India, emerging realities in the region show that the saffron party's fate mostly depends on the support of it's allies in the region