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73-year-old Prem Kumar Dhumal is BJP's CM face in Himachal

Dhumal turns 74 in April, a year short of the BJP's unofficial cut off age of 75 for its leaders to retire from occupying ministerial berths

Prem Kumar Dhumal is BJP's CM candidate for Himachal Pradesh

Currently, he holds the designation of Leader of Opposition in the state assembly

Himachal polls: What has Cong done in all these years, Amit Shah asks Rahul

Shah also lashed out at the CM over the rape and death case of a minor girl in Kotkhai

Guj polls: SC asks EC to not appoint officers with disciplinary proceedings

The polls in Gujarat will be conducted in two phases - December 9 and 14

Gujarat Assembly election: Can BJP pull it off for a sixth time?

Major issues: Patel unrest; discontented traders over GST regime and jobless youths

Gujarat Assembly Elections: Vaghela rules out new party or third front

Vaghela had already clarified that he was not going back to the BJP, which he had quit in 1990s

Congress gears up for Gujarat Assembly polls; Rahul, Sonia meet MLAs

Assembly elections in Gujarat are due later this year

Gujarat polls: Its Congress' 'happiness idex' vs BJP's developmental agenda

Rahul Gandhi to attend party workers' meeting in Ahmedabad on Sept 4

Election Commission to use 75,000 VVPAT gadgets in Gujarat polls

The VVPAT machines, which will be attached to the EVMs, will allow voters to verify if their vote has gone to the intended candidate

Amit Shah kickstarts BJP's Gujarat election campaign with Gaurav Yatra

Shah accused the Congress of inflicting 'injustice' on Gujarat, generation after generation

Gujarat govt cut VAT on petrol, diesel with an eye on polls: Congress

Gujarat today reduced the value added tax (VAT) on petrol and diesel by 4 per cent

Gujarat elections will be held in December, EVM VVPATs to be used: EC

Exact dates yet to be finalised; Election Commission says EVM VVPATs will be used across all 50,128 polling stations

Himachal Pradesh polls to be held on November 9, results on December 18

For the first time Himachal Pradesh will have 136 all women managed booths

EC decision to not announce Gujarat poll date intriguing

The model code of conduct in Gujarat and Himachal Pradesh was in force for 83 days in 2007 and 2012

Shekhar Gupta: Riding a one-trick warhorse

The Modi government has invested too much time and capital to further its political conquest. Today's crisis shows it may be left with too little time in this term to refocus on governance

AAP shouldn't contest Gujarat in national interest: Ashok Gehlot

Interview with Congress' incharge for Gujarat polls

Himachal polls: BJP's list of star campaigners includes Modi, Shah, Irani

Apart from this, the chief ministers of the BJP-ruled states will also take part in the run to sweep the polls in the hill state

Assembly Elections 2017: BJP misses a brave face in Himachal Pradesh

Party insiders say without a chief ministerial candidate, victory may not be as easy as they imagine

Sukh Ram's son quits Congress, to contest Himachal election on BJP ticket

CM Virbhadra Singh says the father-son duo's exit from the Congress was expected; Sukh Ram has a history of switching loyalties

Gujarat polls a fight between development and dynasty: Modi in Gandhinagar

I dare Congress to fight polls on development issue, he said