Voting for single-phase Maharashtra assembly election begins
Voting began at 7 am on Wednesday for the single-phase Maharashtra assembly elections and will conclude at 6 pm. Polling is taking place across 288 assembly constituencies.
Voting began at 7 am on Wednesday for the single-phase Maharashtra assembly elections and will conclude at 6 pm. Polling is taking place across 288 assembly constituencies.
In a major setback to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead of the upcoming Assembly elections in the national capital, senior party leader and minister Kailash Gahlot resigned from the cabinet as well as the party on Sunday.
They said that the works which were stalled by the BJP when Kejriwal went to jail will be completed before the assembly elections.
Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge has appointed former Punjab chief minister Channi and Mukesh Agnihotri the senior observers with immediate effect, a day before the first phase of the Assembly polls in the Union Territory.
Ahead of the Assembly elections in Maharashtra scheduled later this year, a delegation of state ministers will soon meet Union Ministers to address a slew of farmers’ issues.
The ADR analysed the self-sworn affidavits of all 66 candidates, who are contesting in the six LS constituencies in the Odisha Phase-IV polls, the report said.
Till the last reports received here from Odisha Chief Electoral Officer, Bargarh LS constituency polled the highest 66.14 per cent votes followed by Sundargarh with 62.36 per cent, Balangir (61.35 pc), Kandhamal 57.46 pc and Aska (55.65 pc).
Despite the violence, the state registered a high voter turnout which was 68.04 per cent at 5 pm.
The BJP had fielded 18 MPs - seven each in Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan and four in Chhattisgarh - to contest assembly elections.
Modi said that his bond with the Telangana is "unbreakable" and that his party will keep working for the people of the state.
