Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections 2024: Counting of votes will be on October 4, says Election Commission of India
Assembly Elections in Jammu and Kashmir: This is the first election in the newly drawn UT of J-K after the abolition of Article 370 in 2019
The terms of legislative assemblies in Haryana and Maharashtra will expire on Nov 3 and Nov 26, respectively. J&K elections are expected to be held before Sept 30, as ordered by the Supreme Court
The directions were issued by an Election Commission (EC) team led by Chief Election Commissioner Rajiv Kumar
The political parties have been given time slots for the meeting with the Election Commission
Maharashtra Navnirman Sena (MNS) president Raj Thackeray met Chief Minister Eknath Shinde to discuss issues plaguing Worli
Regional votes are also important because they determine a party or alliance's strength in the upper house of parliament
Prashant Kishor's coming involvement in the Bihar assembly elections represents a full circle, as he was the strategist of Nitish Kumar's 2015 victory against the BJP in the state
"This has enhanced confidence within the party that these seats with dominance of Dalit voters can be won in the Assembly polls as well," the BJP leader added
The BJP, which is part of the ruling alliance in he state, released a list of more than 30 leaders who will speak to the media at 9 am and 4 pm everyday
Like in Delhi and Punjab, all old domestic pending bills will be waived. Power cuts will be stopped, and arrangements will be made for 24-hour electricity like in Delhi and Punjab
Chandrashekhar Bawankule, BJP president in Maharashtra, said that at least 3000 voters were registered for two Assembly constituencies, who, according to him, belonged to one particular community
Addressing a 'Backward Classes Samman Sammelan' in Haryana's Mahendragarh, Shah harped on Chief Minister Nayab Singh Saini's OBC identity
Expressing gratitude to people for the TMC's win in all the four seats in West Bengal, Banerjee said the BJP has not fared well in bypolls in other states also, except in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan
No independent was elected in the by-election and it was also for the first time that the house was without any independent member
In Madhya Pradesh's Amarwara assembly constituency, a tightly contested battle has been won by the BJP candidate Kamslesh Pratap Shahi
The BJP secured the second position in all four seats, while the Left-Congress alliance was a distant third and also lost deposits in two assembly segments
Congress candidate Kamlesh Thakur, the wife of Chief Minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu, defeated BJP's Hoshiyar Singh for the Dehra seat by a margin of 9,399 votes
The counting of votes for the by-elections in the two assembly constituencies, held on Wednesday, began at 8 am
While the BJP was in the lead in Himachal Pradesh's Hamirpur, its partner in the National Democratic Alliance (NDA), the JD(U), was leading in Rupauli in Bihar