Pulwama in J&K gears up for Assembly elections
Pulwama district, a key region in the electoral landscape of Jammu and Kashmir, is ready for the upcoming Assembly elections, which will take place there during the first phase.
Pulwama district, a key region in the electoral landscape of Jammu and Kashmir, is ready for the upcoming Assembly elections, which will take place there during the first phase.
The Chief Secretary held a meeting with top civil administration and Police department officials in Srinagar to review the security arrangements made for the smooth conduct of Assembly elections in the UT.
Addressing the media with state party President Chaudhary Udaibhan, Hooda said the people have made up their minds to oust the BJP from Haryana and bring a Congress government.
At least 149 senior IAS, IPS and other officers hours before the ECI announced assembly elections in the Union Territory (UT) causing suspicion among political parties.
Cutting across party lines, all political parties met with the visiting Election Commission of India (ECI) in Srinagar on Thursday and called for immediate Assembly elections in Jammu and Kashmir, besides seeking a level playing field in the polls.
He said Congress has been representing the seat for the last 20 years, however, they have not been able to bring development in the area, he said, adding that progress and development in the country had been brought about by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the last eight years, which the Congress failed to do in 60 years.
Senior BJP leader and Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister, Jairam Thakur has mocked the Congress promise of providing 300 units of free electricity ahead of the upcoming state polls.
Taking a dig at BJP's slogan of changing tradition in Himachal Pradesh, she sought to know what the Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur Government had done that the people of Mandi and the state should break the tradition to vote for it.
According to reports, in the 2017 Vidhan Sabha elections in the state, 34,232 voters pressed NOTA and rejected all the candidates.
Considering his health issues, the Election Commission has made special arrangements for him to cast his ballot. The district administrations of Kinnaur will send a special car and a wheel chair to pick him up to the poll booth and drop him back, and like always a warm welcome will be given by laying a red carpet for him.
