Tag: Ls Polls

Jammu: Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s development mantra will help the BJP sweep the upcoming parliamentary polls, the saffron party’s national vice-president and in-charge of Jammu and Kashmir Avinash Rai Khanna said on Tuesday. “Modi’s mantra of development will help the BJP sweep the upcoming parliamentary election as his four-and-a-half years of work has outclassed the […]

New Delhi: The Congress on Monday night declared nine more candidates for the coming Lok Sabha polls, taking the total number of names announced so far to 325. The list includes one candidate from Gujarat, two from Maharashtra and six from Rajasthan. The party has fielded Mohan Joshi from Pune, Ulhas Patil from Raver (Maharashtra), […]

New Delhi: Polling began Thursday morning in 91 constituencies spread across 18 states and two union territories in the first phase of Lok Sabha elections. Voting is also underway in 175 assembly seats in Andhra Pradesh, 32 in Sikkim and 28 seats in Odisha. Polling in all the Lok Sabha constituencies of Andhra Pradesh (25), Telangana […]

New Delhi: Voting began on Thursday across 95 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over 12 states and Union Territories as the second phase of the mega seven-phase electoral exercise kicked off. Voting for electing MLAs in 35 of Odisha’s 147 assembly seats also started along with polling for five of the state’s 21 Lok Sabha constituencies. In […]

Chennai: South superstars Rajnikanth, Ajith and Kamal Hasan casted their votes in Chennai today. Actor-politician Rajinikanth exercised his democratic right at the polling booth in Stella Maris college in Chennai. Similarly, actor Ajith cast his vote at a polling booth near his residence in Thiruvanmiyur here. Makkal Needhi Maiam chief Kamal Haasan and his daughter […]

Chennai: City-based Clarion Hotel President announced on Thursday that it was offering a 50 per cent off on the food bills of people who have voted in the polls for the 38 Lok Sabha seats and 18 Assembly constituencies of Tamil Nadu. “We are offering 50 per cent discount for guests who show the proof of […]

New Delhi: Former Indian opener Gautam Gambhir is the richest among all the candidates in fray for the Lok Sabha election in Delhi with total assets worth Rs 147 core. The cricketer-turned-politician, who will be making his electoral debut from East Delhi, has shown an income of nearly Rs 12.40 crore in the income tax returns […]

Social media can be a cruel place sometime! Recently, a video of South Superstar Ajith Kumar went viral social media in which a woman purportedly rebuked the ‘Viswasam’ star for standing in queue during voting at a poll both in Tamil Nadu. A twitterati shared the video and captioned it: Incident of History. Entertainment arrived. Ajith […]

New Delhi: Voting began on Monday across 72 Lok Sabha constituencies spread over nine states, mostly in the Hindi heartland, as the fourth phase of the mega seven-phase electoral exercise kicked off. A total electorate of 12.79 crore is eligible to exercise their franchise in this phase covering 17 seats in Maharashtra, including Mumbai’s six seats, […]

New Delhi: As the campaigning for the sixth phase of Lok Sabha elections in 59 constituencies ended Friday evening, over 10.17 crore voters across seven states will decide the fate of 979 candidates by casting their votes on May 12. On Sunday, voting will take place for 14 seats in Uttar Pradesh, 10 in Haryana, eight […]

Chandigarh: More than 10 per cent voting was recorded in the first three hours of polling to Punjab’s 13 Lok Sabha seats on Sunday in the seventh and final phase of the general elections, officials said. Voting began at 7 a.m. in the constituencies of Patiala, Amritsar, Khadoor Sahib, Jalandhar (SC), Hoshiarpur (SC), Anandpur Sahib, […]

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday said the results of the Lok Sabha polls on May 23 will be better than the prediction of exit polls which have favoured the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) returning to power. The Congress, however, said that exit polls have gone wrong in the past and expressed […]

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) may not suffer a major jolt in Uttar Pradesh and is likely to overcome from the setbacks it received in the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Gujarat while it is all set to lose the Lok Sabha battle in the southern states, according to the exit […]

New Delhi: Led by the Bharatiya Janata Party, political parties in India spent a total of Rs 27.73 crore on Facebook for posting political ads on the platform as the seven-phase general election ended on May 19. From February 19 to May 19, political parties posted 124,094 ads on Facebook to reach out to their […]

New Delhi: Only a little over 25,000 of the nearly one lakh overseas Indians who had registered as voters flew down to India to exercise their franchise in the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, according to data issued by the Election Commission this month. A total of 99,807 overseas Indians, who are living abroad and have […]