Politics

The BJP is contesting the Gangtok and Martam-Rumtek assembly seats while its alliance partner SKM is contesting the Poklok-Kamrang seat.

The polling to 90 Assembly seats was held in Haryana on Monday, while the results will be declared on Thursday.

Citing an alleged fake encounter in which a Jhansi man Pushpendra Yadav was shot dead by police, Akhilesh Yadav said, anyone can be killed in this regime. There is no law and order.

The attackers later forcefully stopped the vehicle, pulled out its occupants and thrashed them, he said. They then poured petrol on Bhuyar's vehicle and set it afire before running away, the official said.

Rahul Gandhi tweeted a video of Haryana MLA Bakshish SIngh Virk with the caption 'the most honest man in the BJP'.

There is an open rebellion on at least 10 seats in the region as discontent seems to be simmering over the sitting MLAs’ poor performance.

Union Minister Nitin Gadkari said people will vote on the basis of the five-year performance of the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and the Devendra Fadnavis-led dispensation in Maharashtra.

Uma Shankar, the first person to cast his vote at the Manikpur polling station in Chitrakoot said he was pleasantly surprised to receive the commendation from the poll panel.

He assured that the Haryana Police had made elaborate security arrangements for fair, peaceful and incident-free conduct of the assembly elections, in which over 1.83 people are eligible to vote.

A video purportedly showing the NCP leader making the remarks against the minister went viral on social media, following which a BJP leader from Parli in Beed district filed a police complaint against him on Saturday.

Speaking to select group of journalists, Fadnavis claimed the revocation of provisions of Article 370 in Jammu and Kashmir was not the BJP's main poll plank.

Lashing out at Piyush Goyal for his remarks against Nobel laureate Abhijit Banerjee, Priyanka Gandhi said instead of doing their work, BJP leaders are trying to belie the achievements of others.

Union minister Piyush Goyal on Friday dubbed Indian-American Abhijit Banerjee, who won the 2019 Nobel for Economics, as "Left-leaning"

Polls will be held in five Assembly seats and the Lok Sabha constituency of Samastipur as incumbent MLAs were elected to Parliament during the recent general election while MP Ram Chandra Paswan died of a heart attack.

With the BJP making scrapping of Article 370 in J&K a big poll issue, Modi said parties like the Congress can neither understand sentiments of people nor respect sacrifices made by brave jawans.

Gandhi's attack came over a media report which claimed that in this quarter the economic trend has been reversed with rural consumption being at its lowest in seven years for the quarter of September.