Jharkhand will vote in five phases, with the first one on November 30 and the last on December 20. Results will be declared on December 23
To boost higher literacy in the state, scholarships to support higher education were also promised in the manifesto
Besides the loan waiver assurance, the manifesto -- released by AICC in-charge RPN Singh here -- pledged to free farmers from the clutches of money lenders and make the process of institutional loans
Shiv Sena president Uddhav Thackeray will be sworn in as the chief minister at a ceremony to be held at the Shivaji Park in the evening
Any delay of the project is likely to undermine investor confidence, at a time when growth has slowed to its weakest pace in years
Releasing the party's manifesto for the polls, JMM president Shibu Soren and his son Hemant said unemployed graduates and post-graduates would be given an allowance of Rs 5,000
Reiterating the Shiv Sena's demand for sharing the chief minister's post, Raut said the state's CM will be from the Uddhav Thackeray-led party only
Gadkari said BJP-Shiv Sena should come together to form the government for the sake of welfare of the people
After the meeting of the Sena MLAs at Thackeray's residence 'Matoshree', all the legislators went to Rangsharda Hotel, close to the party chief's home in suburban Bandra
Shah tweeted his congratulation to Fadnavis and NCP leader Ajit Pawar, who was sworn in as the deputy chief minister, after the oath-taking ceremony
Sena MLA Bhaskar Jadhav told PTI that the meeting was convened to apprise the legislators of the government formation process and meetings of Congress-NCP leaders in Delhi
Shah accused Himachal CM Virbhadra Singh of corruption and ruining the state
BJP chief said that Amethi is known all over the world as a Nehru-Gandhi family bastion, but there has been no development
Amit Shah said the Congress had committed the 'sin' of linking the great Hindu culture with terrorism
He lauded the Raghubar Das government for 'freeing' the state of the Naxal menace in the last five years.
Jharkhand polls: Rebel BJP leader Saryu Rai files nomination against CM Raghubar Das from Jamshedpur East
Das has been an MLA from Jamshedpur East since 1995 - an achievement for an 'outsider' who hails from Chhattisgarh and not Jharkhand
Congress president Sonia Gandhi approved Vallabh's candidature from the Jamshedpur East assembly constituency
The poll panel had disqualified Koda from contesting elections for three years
President's rule was imposed in the state on Tuesday after Governor Bhagat Singh Koshyari sent a report to the Centre