Politics

While the BJP has been urging voters to vote ‘silently’, to keep their allegiances to themselves, the ruling Trinamool Congress has been silently intimidating villages that voted for the BJP during panchayat polls, claim villagers.

The plea also seeks a direction to the CBI for registering an FIR under various sections of the Indian Penal Code against all the lawyers and the NGOs run by them, to arrest them and to investigate the case since 2010.

An official source said the Commission Tuesday decided to seek "further clarification" on "certain aspects" of the issue from Ministry of Home Affairs.

The state chief electoral officer told Varma that the movie, slated for release on May 1, should not be allowed to be aired till the model code of conduct was in force.

With Mamata Banerjee pitching herself for the top job and the BJP looking to win 20 seats in the state, politicians fear 'there will be more violence' in the state.

Voters claimed that the local TMC had sprayed perfume on the EVM button for the party. Several complaints have been registered by those 'whose fingers didn’t smell of perfume.'

The BJP is banking on the Modi factor and Jat support for its candidate, but it risks a reverse polarisation among the rest of the voters, most significantly of the Rajputs.

The wrestler had campaigned for BJP's Jadavpur MP candidate Anupam Hazra on Friday.

The PIL said the Supreme Court should direct the Union government to take appropriate steps to deactivate bogus social media accounts.​

Chincholi candidate Avinash Jadhav is the son of Umesh Jadhav, whose resignation necessitated the by-polls.

Sharing a photograph with the actor, Modi in a tweet said everyone was rooting for Deol's victory in the Lok Sabha elections.

The order was passed after taking cognizance of allegations made by the deputy chief minister, who had taken exception to Gandhi's remark "all thieves have the surname Modi" at a political rally.

Earlier, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav too used his own version of the 'Avengers: Endgame' on Twitter to take a swipe at the ruling BJP.

The ban came into force at 4.00 pm on Friday and would remain in force till April 28 evening, an order issued by the commission said.

This follows a recent move in Telangana where 178 farmers contested against CM KCR’s daughter Kavitha from Nizamabad in the ongoing Lok Sabha Polls.

The SP had an understanding with the Congress during the 2017 Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections. In the ongoing Lok Sabha elections, the alliance of the SP, the Bahujan Samaj Party and the Rashtriya Lok Dal has shunned it.