Voting in the Outer Manipur constituency will be held in two phases, and those living in camps in violence-hit state will be allowed to vote from their camps, Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar said on Saturday.  IMAGE: Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar addresses the press conference announcing the dates for the Lok Sabha polls in New Delhi on Saturday. Photograph: Shrikant Singh/ANI Photo As the Election Commission announced the dates for Lok Sabha polls, queries were raised ...

'Rather than criticising the kind of candidates fielded by political parties from our living rooms, NOTA in a sense implores the electorate to say this by turning up in person at a polling booth to ensure their protest is registered.' IMAGE: An election official using a model of an Electronic Voting Machine (EVM) shows a voter how to vote at a polling station during the fourth phase of India's general election, May 13, 2024. Photograph: Reuters   Not just the Congress and other Opposition ...

Congress hopes for a continuation of the assembly poll results last year when it stunned the BRS and rode to power in the state. IMAGE: Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy plays football along with students at Hyderabad Central University, May 13, 2024. Photograph: ANI Photo The Telangana Pradesh Congress Committee (TPCC) office, called Gandhi Bhavan near Nampally in Hyderabad, was buzzing with vibrant party workers expressing confidence in victory in the Lok Sabha (LS) polls, riding the ...

This will be the first major electoral test after the political realignment that emerged in 2019. IMAGE: Shiv Sena-UBT workers during a a roadshow for Rajan Vichare, the sitting MP and party candidate for the Thane Lok Sabha seat. Photograph: ANI Photo Battle lines have been drawn in six parliamentary constituencies in Mumbai, where Eknath Shinde-led Shiv Sena and the Uddhav Thackeray led outfit will battle it out in three seats. While two seats will witness fights between the traditional ...

Maharashtra Congress working president Naseem Khan on Friday expressed disappointment over the party for the Opposition bloc Maha Vikas Aghadi not fielding any Muslim candidate for the Lok Sabha polls in the state and told Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge he was pulling out of campaigning. IMAGE: Maharashtra Congress working president Naseem Khan. Photograph: Courtesy X In a letter to Kharge, Khan said he will not campaign for party candidates for the remaining phases of the Lok Sabha ...

A peculiar poll battle is on the cards in the tribal-dominated Banswara-Dungarpur Lok Sabha constituency in Rajasthan where the Congress is appealing to the people not to vote for its candidate. IMAGE: Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge and party leader Rahul Gandhi at the launch of the party's manifesto for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, at AICC headquarters in New Delhi on April 5, 2024. Photograph: Rahul Singh/ANI Photo The reason: After much flip-flop, the Congress decided to form an ...

Even as political leaders are talking of development, modernisation and progress in election rallies, people about 300 villages in the Pilibhit Lok Sabha constituency are still facing one of the most primitive struggles of mankind -- the man-animal conflict. IMAGE: SP chief Akhilesh Yadav addresses an election rally organized in support of party candidate from Pilibhit constituency Bhagwat Sharan Gangwar (unseen) ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, in Pilibhit, Uttarakhand, April 12, 2024.

The Election Commission of India has set up more than 200 polling stations within housing societies in the urban areas of Uttar Pradesh to increase the voter turnout in the politically crucial state. Photograph: Raminder Pal Singh/ANI Photo In an interview with PTI, state's Chief Electoral Officer Navdeep Rinwa said the poll body is targeting urban areas that have registered a low voter turnout in the past and expressed that Uttar Pradesh will secure the first position as far as voting ...

Eleven months of conflict, over 50,000 displaced people and an anti-poll sentiment among few---the Election Commission in violence-hit Manipur is gearing up for the challenging task of holding Lok Sabha elections in the state where the poll scene is muted. Photograph: ANI Photo Chief Electoral Officer, Pradeep Kumar Jha said over 24,500 displaced people have been identified as eligible to vote in the upcoming elections and special arrangements have been made for them to cast their franchise ...