Tag: panchayat polls
Capturing six Municipal Corporations, the BJP is on a winning streak, with a vastly improved performance over its 2015 debacle in the local body elections. But this victory chariot was dented by a technicality in the Ahmedabad district Panchayats results. Despite having a majority in the body, the BJP will have to stay content with a Congress president. ....
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who is on a visit to Lakhimpur Kheri, on Saturday met the woman candidate of the Samajwadi Party who was allegedly molested during the block pramukh elections held recently in Uttar Pradesh. Priyanka Gandhi demanded that the panchayat polls where violence took place should be held again. She said she will write to the state election commission in this regard. ....
Over 67.51 lakh voters will decide the fate of 726 Zilla Parishad (ZP) candidates in the first phase of panchayat polls in Odisha to be held on Wednesday. ....
The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) in Uttar Pradesh has cancelled the ticket of Sangeeta Senger, wife of former MLA and rape convict Kuldeep Senger. ....
Voting for the second phase of Uttar Pradesh panchayat elections began on Monday with more than 3.48 lakh candidates in the fray for over 2.23 lakh posts across 20 districts. ....
An average 36 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 11 a.m. in the fourth phase of the Panchayat polls underway in 163 Zilla Parishad zones spread over 64 blocks of Odisha, an official said here on Tuesday. An average 36 per cent voter turnout was recorded till 11 a.m. in the fourth phase of the Panchayat polls underway in 163 Zilla Parishad zones spread over 64 blocks of Odisha, an official said here on Tuesday. ....
The West Bengal government on Wednesday approached the division bench of Calcutta High Court's Chief Justice T.S. Sivagnanam against an earlier order of a single-judge bench that directed it to file FIRs against two senior police officers.....
Barring stray incidents, the first phase of polling in the three-tier panchayat elections concluded peacefully in Odisha on Monday. ....
Barring a few minor incidents, the third phase of panchayat elections was conducted peacefully across Odisha on Friday.....
The fifth phase of panchayat polls in Odisha came to an end peacefully on Tuesday.....