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Assembly polls: What is at stake for those who are hoping to net top job?

The Samajwadi Party has no doubts at all: If it comes to power, Akhilesh Yadav will become CM

Dynasts are still stuck in old politics of alliances with mafia: PM Modi

Attacking the BJP's rivals, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said these "dynasts" are still stuck in the old politics of alliances with the mafia.

Repolling in 12 polling stations of Manipur to be held on March 5

The Election Commission has ordered repoll in 12 polling stations of five assembly constituencies in Manipur where polling was held on February 28

Violence mars first phase Manipur polls; 67.53% turnout recorded till 3 PM

Officials said that the first phase voters' turnout could surpass the 2017 assembly election's polling percentage of 86 per cent, which was the highest recorded in the state to date

Prashant Kishor meets KCR amid rumours of a tie-up for 2023 Telangana polls

Rao and Kishor are understood to have discussed the ongoing efforts to bring together non-BJP parties, the present round of assembly polls and other political developments

Telangana: Prashant Kishor begins groundwork for TRS for 2023 polls

The visit comes amid speculations that the Telangana Rashtra Samithi (TRS) has hired Kishor to evolve a strategy for next elections

Polling begins for 38 seats in first phase of Manipur assembly elections

The BJP has fielded candidates in all the 38 seats, followed by Congress with 35 contestants

Minus Congress, no third front can fight BJP: PDP chief Mehbooba Mufti

Any political alliance or third front without the Congress cannot fight the BJP, J&K Peoples Democratic Party president Mehbooba Mufti said on Tuesday, accusing the saffron party of "shaking the basic foundations of the country by its divisive policies. She said the assembly elections are part of the democratic process and holding it in Jammu and Kashmir is not a favour to its people. Without the Congress, no alliance or third front can succeed in defeating the BJP. The Congress has played a pivotal role in building this nation over the past 70 years and there is no alternative to the Congress in the country, she said, winding up her five-day tour of Jammu province. Reacting to the reports about Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrasekhar Rao's bids to forge an anti-BJP front ahead of the 2024 general elections, Mehbooba said what the Congress and other governments build over the past seven decades is being sold by the BJP which needs to be dislodged in the interest of the ...

Double engine govt of BJP building Ram temple, says Yogi Adityanath

The BJP's double engine government is working to establish a 'Ram Rajya,' said CM Yogi Adityanath

Assembly polls 2022: Migrants help build Punjab, says Channi on bhaiya row

Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi had stirred a row over his use of word 'bhaiya' for the lead.

'Will send Lakhimpur culprit and his protectors to jail': Akhilesh Yadav

Union Minister of State for Home Ajay Mishra's son Ashish Mishra is an accused in the Lakhimpur Kheri incident which had left eight people, including four farmers, dead

1 kg 'ghee', free ration to poor for 5 years if SP comes to power: Akhilesh

Addressing an election rally in Rae Bareli, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav said the funds for ration has not been earmarked in "Delhi's budget as they know that the election will end in March"

UP Assembly polls: BJP is keeping emotions alive on Kashi and Mathura

A Krishna janmabhoomi temple in Mathura was a recurrent theme for the ruling BJP in the run-up to the Assembly polls

UP Polls: Yogi, Akhilesh two sides of same coin, says Asaduddin Owaisi

AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Sunday dubbed Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav as two sides of the same coin.

Replaced Amarinder as he was running govt on BJP's directions: Priyanka

The 117-member Punjab Assembly will go to the polls on February 20, while the counting of votes will be taken up on March 10

BJP will win all five poll-bound states, says PM Narendra Modi

Says intention has always been to protect farmers' interests

The test of popularity: Five of the most furious contests in Assembly polls

In some places, candidates have jumped ship and will now laud the very side they had been rubbishing over the past five years

UP Assembly elections: A call for 'badlav' on Mayawati's home turf

This time, says Dalit ideologue Chandrabhan Prasad, expect the unexpected

1,304 candidates in fray for February 20 Punjab Assembly elections

As many as 341 candidates withdrew their nomination papers on the last day of withdrawal

Lalpura resigns as NCM chief after BJP fields him in Punjab Assembly polls

Lalpura was a BJP spokesperson and had also been an Indian Police Service (IPS) officer in the past