In the first round, 89 of the total 182 Assembly seats will go to polls and prominent political parties have declared their candidates for almost all these constituencies
'I request all the voters of Devbhoomi to participate with full enthusiasm in this festival of democracy and create a new record of voting'
Polling for 68 Assembly segments would be held in a single phase today
More than 20,000 workers had applied to get a ticket to contest the MCD polls
AAP, which is in the fray for the first time in the Assembly polls, has been missing from the state with its leaders focusing on strengthening its vote bank in another poll-bound Gujarat.
The Gujarat Assembly elections will be held in two phases - on December 1 and 5, and the counting of votes will be taken up on December 8
Ten personnel of NDRF and SDRF have been deployed at district headquarters (HQ) Chamba and Pangi, besides ten of NDRF at District HQ Lahaul-Spiti, Kaza and Udaipur.
The war room will look at candidates' public engagements and monitor booth management activities
The commission had announced the schedule for Rampur by-election along with other vacancies in various states
He asked the people of Himachal Pradesh to "send the Congress packing like Uttar Pradesh had done in the assembly polls earlier this year"
"The atmosphere is good. In Himachal, Congress is winning the election unilaterally," he told reporters after returning from the tour of both states
Polling for the municipal elections in Delhi will be held on December 4 and votes will be counted on December 7.
The Aam Aadmi Party is aggressively trying to position itself as the ruling BJP's main contender in the upcoming Gujarat Assembly elections, notwithstanding its poor show in the 2017 state polls
The BJP and the Congress have launched an aggressive social media campaign to target each other ahead of the Himachal Pradesh Assembly election as the rival parties leave no stone unturned
Former Congress leader Hardik Patel, who quit the party and joined the BJP, will contest the elections from the Viramgam constituency
The oldest party in the country will hold rallies in all 68 assembly constituencies simultaneously in the state on the last day of the campaign
The delegation will carry specific instances of the missing names and also hand over the voters' lists of booths where the names were struck off at the last moment, said senior party leaders.
According to sources, in the marathon meetings held on Wednesday, it has been decided not to give party tickets to several other veteran leaders and induct young party leaders.
"There is a BJP wave in the state and people want to vote the double-engine government back. BJP has launched a campaign in the state with utmost sincerity with our top leaders leading from the front"
The Gujarat Assembly elections will be held in two phases on December 1 and 5, and the results will be declared on December 8