Lucknow: With less than a month to go for the Lok Sabha elections, the Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on Friday announced its candidates for 11 Lok Sabha constituencies in Uttar Pradesh. The BSP, which is contesting the elections in alliance with the Samajwadi Party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal, has fielded Haji Fajalurahman from Saharanpur, […]
Category: LS POLLS 2019
Actor Prakash Raj files nomination as Independent
Bengaluru: South Indian multi-lingual actor Prakash Raj on Friday filed his nomination to contest the Lok Sabha elections from Bangalore Central constituency as an Independent. Raj, 53, who hails from this tech city, is a popular actor in Kannada, Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films. “National parties like BJP and Congress have failed the people. I would […]
Indian Statistical Institute submits report on VVPAT slip counting
New Delhi: The Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) on Friday submitted its report to the Election Commission on how many or what percentage of VVPAT slips should be counted in each constituency. Opposition parties had been demanding that at least 50 per cent of VVPAT (voter verifiable paper audit trail) slips should be counted and matched […]
Mayawati taunts BJP’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign
Lucknow: Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) supremo Mayawati on Friday taunted the BJP’s ‘Main Bhi Chowkidar’ campaign, two days after she accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of changing his profile from ‘Chaiwala’ to ‘Chowkidar’ only to get votes in the Lok Sabha polls. In a series of tweets in Hindi, Mayawati said that ever since the […]
Hema Malini to contest again from Mathura LS seat
Agra/Mathura: Popular actor and Mathura MP Hema Malini, who has been busy since morning participating in Holi celebrations in Lord Krishna’s land, was Thursday against fielded by her BJP from the seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections. However, in the first list of Bharatiya Janata Party’s Lok Sabha candidates, there were surprises in store […]
Union Minister, first-time candidates in BJP’s J&K list
Srinagar: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Thursday re-nominated both its sitting MPs from the Jammu region while fielding three first-time candidates from the Kashmir Valley. The party’s first list of 184 candidates, released in Delhi by senior BJP leader J.P. Nadda, includes Union Minister Jitendra Singh and Jugal Kishore Sharma who will be seeking re-election […]
Amit Shah to contest from Gandhinagar, eases Advani out
Ahmedabad: Setting at rest all speculations, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Thursday announced that its national president Amit Shah would contest the Lok Sabha elections from Gandhinagar, in place of veteran leader and incumbent MP L.K. Advani. Ninety-one-year-old Advani who represented the Gandhinagar seat for six terms, except for 1996, won the 2014 elections […]
BJP ignores Dattatreya for Secunderabad constituency
Hyderabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party has ignored its senior leader and sitting MP Bandaru Dattatreya for Secunderabad Lok Sabha constituency and instead fielded G. Kishan Reddy. Dattatreya, also a former union minister, did not figure in the list of candidates announced by the BJP. Secunderabad is among 10 Lok Sabha constituencies in Telangana for which […]
Congress in a fix over five Uttarakhand LS seats
Dehradun: The Congress high command is faced with hurdles in finalising list of candidates for Uttarakhand Lok Sabha seats, which go to polls on April 11. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) announced candidates for all the five seats on Thursday. The Congress has finalised three names, so far, which include state PCC President Pritam Singh […]
BJP replaces 6 MPs, including minister, in UP
Lucknow: The BJP on Thursday announced the list of 28 of its candidates for Uttar Pradesh’s 80 Lok Sabha seats, dropping six of its sitting members including a Union Minister, for the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The list was announced by senior BJP leader J.P. Nadda at the party headquarters in New Delhi. Union Minister […]