Political parties in Uttar Pradesh will now get one week's more time more for campaigning in the 9 assembly bye-elections after the Election Commission on Monday extended the date of polling to November 20 from the existing November 13.
BJP, Congress, NCP, and Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders have welcomed the Election Commission of India's (ECI) announcement of poll dates for the Maharashtra and Jharkhand Assembly elections, asserting that their parties are fully prepared for the coming polls.
Perhaps in no other general election in the past have issues like ‘uniform civil code’, ‘politics of appeasement’, ‘secularism’, ‘illegal infiltration’, ‘NRC’ etc. been so much a part of the campaign of political parties as it had happened this time.
Everyone is waiting with bated breath for the 2024 poll results, which will be released on June 4.
While earlier, the political enmity was by and large black and white with only a few strands of grey here and there, currently the status has changed unequivocally to “it’s complicated” to use social media lingo.
ECI has asked all political parties to get "clearance" from media certification and monitoring committee (MCMC) before publishing any advertisement in print media on date of polling and a day prior.
The Iftar politics, that was once an important part of Uttar Pradesh politics, has gone missing.
Laying down guidelines governing arrest, remand, bail in abstract is dangerous, observed the apex court.
This indicates that the super star still occupies an important space in the Tamil Nadu political firmament.
With only one day left for campaign in the Gujarat Assembly election, the parties are accelerating their efforts to interact with voters using social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Youtube.
