Tag: Assembly Poll

In the 2017 assembly elections the Congress had won 77 of the 117 seats, followed by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) 20, SAD 15, BJP three and two others.

More than 15 crore people in the five poll-bound states have received the first dose of the vaccine, while nine crore people have received both the shots.

New Delhi: Even as the Congress bagged 26 seats less than the BJP in the Karnataka election, the party polled about two per cent more votes, reflecting that its vote conversion rate was less than its rival. In the Karnataka polls, the Congress polled 38 per cent votes, while the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) polled […]

Bengaluru: All eyes were on Karnataka Governor Vajubhai Vala on Tuesday after hotly-contested elections threw up a hung Assembly, forcing the BJP and a hurriedly stitched alliance of the Congress and the JD-S to stake claim to form a government. The BJP, which appeared confident of returning to power in its only southern bastion, emerged […]

Bengaluru: The Congress, which lost the mandate on Tuesday, extended its support to the Janata Dal-Secular (JD-S) to enable it to stake claim to form a coalition government after the Karnataka election threw up a hung assembly. After meeting Governor Vajubhai R. Vala, the Congress declared that it was extending unconditional support to the JD-S, […]

Ahmedabad: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Saturday evening announced its second list of 36 candidates for the Gujarat Assembly elections. There are as many as 19 new faces in it while the rest, including those defeated in the 2012 elections, have been repeated. The party leadership decided to drop three sitting legislators and fielded new […]

Polling in 15 constituencies of the state on Sunday ended with 61.08 per cent electorate exercising their franchise in the penultimate phase of the Assembly elections in Jharkhand as the day passed off peacefully