Poll authorities on Thursday received five nominations from independent candidates for the MCD elections, taking the number of nominations to seven so far, a senior official said.
Out of these seven nominations, five have been filed by men and two by women, all as independents, the official said.
One nomination was received for ward Rohini C on Wednesday and one on Monday.(PTI)
Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) six-term MLA Madhu Shrivastav who was not given ticket for the coming Gujarat Assembly elections said on Thursday that he will contest as an independent if his supporters wished so.
After the BJP announced its list of candidates for 160 out of 182 seats, Shrivastav's supporters gathered in his constituency Waghodia and protested.(PTI)
Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Anurag Thakur on Thursday said a "double-engine" government is necessary in Himachal Pradesh to ensure faster development of the hill state.
Addressing rallies on the last day of campaigning for the November 12 Assembly polls, Thakur said the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) governments at the Centre and in Himachal Pradesh have ensured all-round development of the state.(PTI)
The BJP has heralded a "generational shift" in its Gujarat unit with the party dropping more three dozen of its sitting MLAs and several veteran leaders bowing out of the upcoming electoral contest, its state unit president C R Patil said on Thursday.
Patil claimed the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) was nowhere to be seen on the ground and, at best, will corner some votes of other parties, eventually helping the BJP.(PTI)
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge, speaking at Maharashtra as part of the Bharat Jodo Yatra, referred to former American President John F Kennedy to get the message across to Indians that they should be asking what they can do for the country.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said that the BJP government is selling everything they set their eyes on, undoing all that the grand old party achieved over the years.
He also slammed the saffron party saying that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer under the BJP tenure.
Harping on the '40 per cent commission government' barb, senior Congress leader Siddaramaiah on Thursday questioned Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s silence on the 'maladministration' in Karnataka. Ahead of Modi’s state visit on Friday, the former CM in an open letter targeted the BJP ministers calling a few of them ‘kingpins’ involved in scams.
The opposition leader in the Karnataka assembly also accused the PM of inaction over the written complaint from the victims of 40 per cent commission government in the state.(PTI)
Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Thursday said the BJP, if voted to power in Himachal Pradesh, will soon roll out the Uniform Civil Code as he made light of "10 guarantees" promised by rival Congress, saying people trust in the guarantees of those with reputation while the opposition party has none.(PTI)
Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Thursday exuded confidence that the Congress would win unilaterally in the upcoming Himachal Pradesh assembly elections.
He also said there is a good atmosphere in favour of the Congress in Gujarat where a fierce anti-incumbency wave is being seen against the current BJP government.(PTI)
President of Karnataka Congress D K Shivakumar on Thursday questioned as to why government funds were used to install a 108-feet statue of Bengaluru founder Nadaprabhu Kempegowda at the international airport here. The statue is to be unveiled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on November 11.(PTI)
Senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh on Thursday claimed Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut's bail order indicated that the Enforcement Directorate was a "political weapon" in the hands of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
A special court in Mumbai on Wednesday granted bail to Rajya Sabha member Raut in a money laundering case related to the Patra Chawl redevelopment project, saying his arrest was “illegal” and a "witch-hunt”.(PTI)
A day after his release from jail in a money laundering case, Shiv Sena MP Sanjay Raut on Thursday claimed his arrest was political and that such kind of “vendetta politics” was not seen in the country earlier. - PTI.
Incumbent CM Bhupendra Patel will contest from Ghatlodia, which he won in the 2017 polls. Meanwhile,Gujarat Home minister Harsh Sanghavi will contest elections from Majura constituency.
The Congress will hold "Vijay Ashirwaad" rallies in all 68 Assembly segments of Himachal Pradesh on the last day of campaigning on Thursday, party leaders said.
Party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra will address a public meeting on Sirmour and take part in door-to-door campaigning in the state capital.
Congress candidates in each constituency will start their rally by paying obeisance at local temples and seeking the blessings of local deities.
Party leaders said all Congress candidates will hold such rallies in all assembly segments and star campaigners will also participate. - PTI.
Exodus of at least seven MLAs in the past one year has become a worry for the ruling BJP-IPFT alliance in poll-bound Tripura amid growing calls for unity of the Opposition parties.
Two minor boys are led to the riverbed by a group of women. They look at the cables and nets still hanging, which were once part of the bridge, Julto Pul, they had thronged on a Sunday outing, for a bit of adventure and a lot of selfies. Below the hanging cables is the river, Machchhu, which was drained of water during the search for missing persons.
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Some of Gujarat’s key ministers as well as senior leaders, including former chief minister Vijay Rupani and former deputy chief minister Nitin Patel, announced that they will not contest the upcoming assembly elections in Gujarat on a day when the Bharatiya Janata Party’s Central Election Committee convened a meeting to decide the names of candidates.
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