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THE TIMES OF INDIA | Feb 03, 2022, 08:29:04 IST
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Assembly elections 2022 updates: Congress may announce Punjab CM candidate on Feb 6
Days after announcing its candidate in Uttar Pradesh’s Karhal, from where Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav is fighting his first assembly elections, the Congress has decided to withdraw from the contest. Party leader sachin Pilot termed it 'political etiquette.' Stay updated with the Times of India to get all the live updates of Assembly Election News, Manifestos, Candidates List and Nomination Dates-
08:25 (IST) Feb 02
The Bharatiya Janata Party has fielded Rajeshwar Singh, the former joint director of ED, from Sarojininagar seat of Lucknow, denying a ticket to minister Swati Singh. The party's eighth list with 17 names, released on Tuesday, has a couple of more surprises.
07:30 (IST) Feb 02
Rejected by the electorate in the last two elections in Cuncolim, for mer minister Joaquim Alemao has now fielded his son Yuri in the hope of carrying forward his political legacy. In Benaulim, his brother and former minister Churchill is contesting as TMC candidate while the latter’s daughter Valanka is also trying her luck from Navelim, also on the West Bengal based party ticket.
07:09 (IST) Feb 02
New entrant to the Congress and popular JNU alumnus Kanhaiya Kumar was taken in for a surprise on his way to the UP Congress office in Lucknow on Tuesday when a youth threw some liquid on him. While Congressmen alleged that the youth had poured acid on Kanhaiya’s face, police said it appeared to be ink.
06:50 (IST) Feb 02
A day after filing nominations from Bhadaur constituency, incumbent CM Charanjit Singh Channi on Tuesday filed his nomination paper from Chamkaur Sahib seat, which he hasbeen representing forthree terms.Channi, while addressing agathering soon after, turned emotionaland appealed to his constituents to make himwin by more than 50,000 votes.
03:44 (IST) Feb 02
Opposition leaders, their agendas will vanish after the elections: Uttarakhand Chief Minister
Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami slammed Congress on Tuesday by questioning the work carried out in the states ruled by them and said that opposition leaders and their agendas will vanish after the elections. "Those who are standing in our opposition are not going to be seen after the elections, nor will their agenda be visible. Today they have governments in Punjab, Chhattisgarh, Maharashtra, Rajasthan. Have they been able to make gas cylinders cheaper there? Has everyone been given employment there?" said Dhami.
02:49 (IST) Feb 02
The Election Commission (EC) appointed 15 special observers, including five special general observers, five special police observers and five special expenditure observers, to oversee the conduct of assembly polls in five states.
23:57 (IST) Feb 01
BJP announced list of 17 candidates, no mention of Hriday Narain Dikshit, Swati Singh
The BJP on Tuesday announced a list of 17 candidates for the Uttar Pradesh polls and did not include Assembly Speaker Hriday Narain Dikshit and minister Swati Singh in it while Brijesh Pathak's seat was changed. The names announced on Tuesday included candidates for all the nine Assembly seats in Lucknow. Ashutosh Shukla has been fielded from Bhagwantnagar in Unnao district where Hriday Narain Dikshit is the outgoing MLA.
23:46 (IST) Feb 01
Manipur assembly polls: Shiv Sena fields ex-deputy speaker; NPP names 13 more candidates
The Shiv Sena on Tuesday said it nominated former deputy speaker of Manipur assembly T Thangzalam Haokip for the upcoming state election. Haokip's names featured in the second list of the Shiv Sena which was released during the day. He will contest from the Henglep constituency in Churachandpur district. He was earlier a member of the BJP.The Shiv Sena's second list contained one more candidate, Toijam Debananda Singh, who was nominated for the Keirao seat.
22:48 (IST) Feb 01
UP polls: Legislative Assembly Speaker Hriday Narayan Dixit denied ticket; Ashutosh Shukla gets a ticket from Bhagwantnagar Assembly constituency
21:57 (IST) Feb 01
BJP releases a list of candidates for Uttar Pradesh assembly elections
BJP releases a list of candidates for #UttarPradeshAssemblyeletions Swati Singh, the Minister of State (Independe… https://t.co/fXJUpKejb5
— ANI UP/Uttarakhand (@ANINewsUP) 164373247000021:52 (IST) Feb 01
The Congress party has fielded no candidates against Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav and his uncle Shivpal Yadav on Karhal and Jaswant Nagar assembly seats where the deadline for filing nominations ended Tuesday.
21:13 (IST) Feb 01
Congress announces second list of candidates for Manipur polls
19:46 (IST) Feb 01
SP announces 10 more poll candidates
The Samajwadi Party on Tuesday announced 10 candidates for the ongoing UP Assembly elections including for Lucknow Cantonment seat from which Aparna Yadav -- the younger daughter-in-law of party patriarch Mulayam Singh Yadav -- had unsuccessfully contested in 2017. The SP has given ticket to Pooja Shukla from Lucknow North and Raju Gandhi from the Cantt seat.
19:05 (IST) Feb 01
Like vaccine, BJP in UP will provide double dose ration every month: CM Yogi Adityanath
Ahead of the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, chief minister Yogi Adityanath, while addressing a rally in Ghaziabad, promised that the BJP government in UP would provide double dose ration every month to every household. "Just like a free double dose vaccination, the BJP government would also provide you people with free double dose ration every month", said Yogi Adityanath.
18:18 (IST) Feb 01
Punjab polls: Nawanshahr MLA Angad gets poll code violation notice
Sitting Congress MLA from Nawanshahr in Punjab, Angad Saini, who filed nomination papers as an independent candidate after being denied ticket by the party, has been issued notice for alleged poll code violation by the Returning Officer here. Nawanshahr Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM)-cum-Returning Officer Baljinder Singh Dhillon has issued the notice to Saini.
17:32 (IST) Feb 01
Former Rajasthan deputy chief minister Sachin Pilot on Tuesday said the Congress party is in a position to be a better alternative for the people of Uttar Pradesh as they have already seen governments run by the SP, BSP and the BJP.
17:22 (IST) Feb 01
Fifteen former civil servants who hold impeccable & brilliant track record of domain expertise and have past experience with election processes, have been included in the team as Special Observers for the current poll going states: Election Commission
17:22 (IST) Feb 01
ECI today organised a briefing meeting with the Special Observers who have been appointed for the current General Elections to the Legislative Assemblies of Goa, Manipur, Punjab, Uttarakhand, and Uttar Pradesh 2022: Election Commission
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