elections 2012 news

The Aam Aadmi Party has requested the Rajya Sabha Secretariat to remove Raghav Chadha as Deputy Leader of the party in the Upper House. The party also wants him excluded from speaking time allocated to AAP, proposing Ashok Mittal for the Deputy Leader role. This move indicates a significant internal leadership adjustment in Parliament, though official reasons remain undisclosed.

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah declared the BJP will contest the 2027 Punjab Assembly elections independently, aiming to form its own government. He asserted the party's growing vote share and criticized the AAP government's performance on law and order, drugs, and corruption. Shah also pledged to enact a law against religious conversions if the BJP wins.

The record turnout so far in the current round of Assembly elections are being seen as testimony to the election commission’s sustained campaigns to instill voter awareness and successful updating of electoral rolls.

"We have received demand for 299 buses so far for the assembly elections that start on February 8 this year.

Rural and semi-rural pockets of the district witnessed a huge turnout of voters during the fifth phase of assembly election on Thursday.

The upward polling trend continued in the Uttar Pradesh assembly polls with 56 constituencies in the third phase recording around 57% voting on Wednesday.

The pregnant reporter, Harvinder Kaur of a Punjabi daily, who reported the matter of Congress leaders terrorizing voters, is still hospitalized.

In 2007, the average voting in Kanpur was 44.7%. This was way ahead of Lucknow’s 35%.Now that the state capital has notched up 56%, people in the neighbouring city are raring to better it.

The paramilitary forces deployed in the city for the smooth conduct of the polls won the hearts of the voters.

Hundreds of voters in the 10 assembly constituencies of the Industrial City were deprived of their democratic right to exercise franchise as their names were missing from the voter list during the fifth phase of polling on Thursday.

In western Uttar Pradesh, Mayawati’s Jatav voters are neither invisible nor silent.

The fifth phase of assembly election in the city witnessed a huge participation of Muslim women voters.

Hundreds of IIT-Kanpur staff and teachers also used their right to franchise at two polling booths set up inside the institute's campus. The rush of IITians was witnessed at the campus school and at type I community centre polling booths.

For the past several weeks, corporate chiefs and industry chambers have been lobbying for keeping excise duty and service tax rates steady in the wake of slowing demand as the government was contemplating an increase in these rates to boost revenues.

With the Tuesday tragedy, Congress seems to have entered a phase of decline after the upswing since the Lok Sabha win in 2009.

The Congress’s poor show has dented the possibility of the party getting its nominee into Rashtrapati Bhavan when President Pratibha Patil retires in July.

The election fever has gripped the festival of colours too.Step into the markets and you will find sprinklers inspired from election symbols of political parties.

Poor governance and lack of roads kept voters away in nine polling stations of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday.