Of the 1,276 candidates, 228 are from national parties, 256 state parties, 345 registered unrecognised parties and 447 are Independents
In his over 50 year-long political journey, the veteran leader's prestige may never have been at stake more than what is now
Asserting that there is a silent wave in his favour, Utpal Parrikar, elder son of late Goa chief minister Manohar Parrikar, said he was a favoured choice after his father's death in 2019.
Defence Minister has been addressing public gatherings in different constituencies in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand for the past few days.
As many as 623 candidates, including 73 women, are in the fray in the first phase, state EC officials said
Facebook-parent Meta said it will be activating its Elections Operations Center to watch out for potential abuses that could emerge across the platform related to state elections
Modi targeted the Samajwadi Party and its allies, termed them as "ghor- parivarvadi log"
Battle lines drawn in Western UP as voting for first phase begins today
In UP's pot boiler, will communities be united by caste or religion?
Says intention has always been to protect farmers' interests
Wherever BJP has been given the opportunity to work with stability, there you will find an atmosphere of pro-incumbency and not anti-incumbency, says PM Modi
Polling scheduled to take place in 58 assembly seats spread across 11 districts in the western part of the state
He said this while addressing a programme in favour of a party candidate in the Sadarpur area of Ghaziabad
'We are putting up a good fight', said Jayant Singh Chaudhary
In the second of a three-part series, Nitin Kumar travels through the villages along the Bundelkhand Expressway, where water scarcity and the lack of infrastructure are the key concerns of the people
Live news updates: Charanjit Singh Channi will be Congress's chief ministerial candidate in Punjab; Adani Group forms a new subsidiary to set up data centres
PM Modi on Monday launched a scathing attack on the Congress, saying the party has failed to secure people's mandate in several states for decades but is still indulging in "blind opposition".
In some places, candidates have jumped ship and will now laud the very side they had been rubbishing over the past five years
This time, says Dalit ideologue Chandrabhan Prasad, expect the unexpected
Live news updates: A recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke award in 1989, Mangeshkar recorded songs for over a thousand Hindi films.