Assembly Elections 2022 Updates: Election Commission issues notice to Samajwadi Party over violation of Covid norms

He is nephew of late union minister Buta Singh and was given cabinet rank recently. He has resigned on the ground that Punjab government has not taken any action against guilty of post matric scholarship scam.

The Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) has chosen educated candidates hailing from the constituency and with no criminal background, while partner the Samajwadi Party picked them on their 'winnability' factor as the alliance announced the first list of nominees for the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls. The alliance of Akhilesh Yadav's and Jayant Chaudhary's parties, which was stitched last year, on Thursday announced candidates on 29 seats – 10 from the SP and 19 from the RLD - in western Uttar Pradesh which will go to polls on February 10.

BJP, which currently rules Goa, has decided to contest 38 out of the total 40 Assembly seats in the state, where elections will be held next month, a senior party functionary said on Friday. The office-bearer said that in two constituencies - Benaulim and Nuvem - the party will not field any candidate on its symbol. Traditionally, people in Benaulim and Nuvem constituencies vote for non-BJP candidates. These two are Christian-dominated seats. Currently, Benaulim is represented by Churchill Alemao, who after getting elected on the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) ticket, shifted to the Mamata Banerjee-led Trinamool Congress (TMC) last month, while Nuvem constituency is represented by Wilfred D'Sa, who had won the last election as a Congress candidate, but later joined the ruling BJP.

Reacting to BJP Goa election in-charge Devendra Fadnavis’s statement, former chief minister Manohar Parrikar’s son Utpal said on Thursday that if being Parrikar’s son was the criterion to get a ticket to contest assembly elections, he would have insisted on the Panaji candidature during 2019 bypoll after his father’s demise.

'Jittega Punjab’, a Facebook page run by Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu’s team and through which he has been communicating in the past, on Thursday posted that next would be “Sidhu’s Sarkar”.

The filing of nominations for the first phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections for 58 seats in 11 districts will begin on Friday under strict Covid guidelines, said Ajay Kumar Shukla, UP chief electoral officer. At the time of filing of papers, only two persons will be permitted to accompany the candidate to the returning officer's room.

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has shortlisted the names of candidates for 40 seats for the 2022 Goa Assembly elections for recommendation to the party's parliamentary board, said BJP's national general secretary and party's in-charge for Goa CT Ravi.

A meeting of the Congress Central Election Committee (CEC) for Punjab Assembly elections took place on Thursday through video conferencing in which discussion was held to finalise candidates. The first list of Congress candidates for Punjab polls will be out soon. Interestingly, Chief Minister Charanjeeet Singh Channi, who is currently representing the Chamkaur Sahib seat in Punjab Assembly, is likely to contest from two seats.

Saini's flight from the cabinet came amid high voltage suspense. He first returned the security cover and then vacated the house allocated to him by the state government, which triggered speculation that he might also quit the BJP. Saini was the Minister of State (Independent Charge), Ayush, Food Security and Drug Administration.

Amidst hectic party hopping over three days, there were more ripples in west UP politics with Nauman Masood — younger brother of former Congress veteran Imran Masood who switched to Samajwadi Party — quitting RLD to join BSP. The move was announced on Thursday by BSP chief Mayawati, who confirmed Nauman would contest from Gangoh in Saharanpur district.

After days of suspense and just ahead of the next month's Uttar Pradesh (UP) assembly election, BJP MLA from Bidhuna in the state Vinay Shakya finally resigned from the party on Thursday

The wave of defection by party MLAs, hovering around the BJP, hit its ally Apna Dal (Sonelal) as well on Thursday as its MLA from Shohratgarh (Siddharthnagar), Chaudhary Amar Singh, resigned from the primary membership of the party. This was the first resignation by a lawmaker from Apna Dal