BJP president JP Nadda will visit poll-bound Nagaland on Tuesday, party sources said.
Of the 259 hopefuls contesting the Tripura Assembly polls, 45, or 17%, are crorepatis
The BJP is banking on Tripura's first Union minister and its very own 'Didi' to breach the 'red fort' that has been impregnable since 1972
With the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh due this year-end, Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan and state Congress president Kamal Nath have been engaged in a bitter 'question war' since a fortnight
After withdrawal of candidature by a Congress candidate, the Nagaland Assembly election will witness a total of 183 candidates in fray for 60 seats, Chief Electoral Officer, V Shashank Shekhar said
The nomination paper of BJP's Tsering Lhamu, the lone candidate contesting the February 27 by-election in Lumla assembly seat in Arunachal Pradesh's Tawang district, was found to be valid
The ruling BJP has 17 crorepati candidates followed by Tipra Motha with nine and CPI(M) seven, the report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a civil society organisation, said
BJP secretary and its northeast co-incharge Rituraj Sinha told reporters on Thursday that the party will fight the Meghalaya polls under the campaign tagline of M-Power
The Election Commission has already launched a Zero Poll Violence' campaign in the northeastern state
Let us analyse the economic issues and present a brief political scene of the poll-bound states of Tripura, Nagaland, and Meghalaya
Earlier, on January 27, amid the buzz of a possible alliance with the ruling BJP, Pradyot Deb Barma clarified that 'no alliance' will be formed with anyone in the upcoming state Assembly polls
BJP announced its 54 candidates for the Tripura Assembly election on Saturday. Voting for 60 assembly seats is to be held on February 16
The IPF's power has considerably waned with the rise of TIPRA Motha - a regional party founded by former Congress leader and royal scion Pradyot Deb Barman
Top leaders of the BJP including party chief J P Nadda, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and others met here on Thursday to finalise candidates for the upcoming Tripura assembly elections
Three special observers - Yogendra Tripathy, Vivek Johri and B Murli Kumar - will hold meetings with officials on Tuesday to take stock of the election preparations and other poll-related issues
Representatives from a number of foreign missions located at New Delhi are also expected to attend the conference
They are general observers, police observers, expenditure observers, micro observers in each polling station, special observers for the special circumstances, and counting observers
The three state assemblies have a strength of 60 members each
CEC Rajiv Kumar said that over 13.9 lakh electors are registered in Nagaland and over 30,000 first-time voters are set to participate in the forthcoming state Assembly polls
The five year term of assemblies of Nagaland, Meghalaya and Tripura would end on March 12, March 15 and March 22, respectively, and before that period, new assemblies have to be constituted